How to Hold on When You Feel Like Giving Up How to Hold on When You Feel Like Giving Up. Feeling like giving up? Discover what the Bible says about perseverance, and how to find strength in God during difficult seasons. Evidently, there are seasons in every believer’s life when the weight becomes almost unbearable. The prayers seem unanswered. The disappointments accumulate. Doors close unexpectedly. Relationships become strained. Financial burdens increase. Dreams appear delayed, and hope begins to fade. It is in these moments that a quiet question often echoes within the heart: “How much longer can I keep going?”…
Author: Chisom
The Weight of Words: Speaking Life in Every Season. Words are among the most powerful gifts God has entrusted to humanity. Evidently, with words, God created the heavens and the earth. Throughout Scripture, words are presented not merely as sounds or expressions, but as vessels carrying influence, power, and spiritual significance. Yet despite their immense power, words are often treated lightly. Many times as believers we speak carelessly, forgetting that what leaves our mouths can build or destroy, heal or wound, encourage or discourage, unite or divide. The Bible declares:”Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and…
Breaking Free from the Approval Trap: Living for an Audience of One I’ve come to realise that one of the quietest yet most powerful struggles in Christian living is the desire for human approval. The truth is that as believers, we genuinely love God, yet much of our emotional stability, confidence, and decision-making is still deeply tied to what people think about us. We feel elevated by praise and crushed by criticism. We fear disappointing others more than disobeying God. This is what can be called the approval trap—a life controlled more by the opinions of people than by the…
The Reward of Obedience: When Saying Yes to God Costs Everything. One of the most important, yet most misinterpreted, aspects of the Christian life is obedience to God. Obedience is sometimes portrayed as something simple, instinctive, or instantly satisfying in many contemporary teachings. However, a more profound and frightening reality emerges when we closely examine Scripture and the lives of people who genuinely followed God: Before rewards are revealed, obedience to God frequently entails expense, strain, sacrifice, and loss. Saying “yes” to God sometimes involves saying “no” to convenience, security, relationships, comfort, and even personal ambition. It is in these…