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Priceless // Praise & Shine

When I think about my life, it is sometimes east to feel, worthless. It is easy to lose sight of just how much we are loved. The Bible tells us time and time again just how priceless we are to God.

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)

…because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ… (Ephesians 2:4-5)

…God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us… (1 John 4:9-10)

God loves us so much that he sacrificed His only son for us. A priceless gift for us because in His eyes, we are priceless.

…The birds of the air to not so or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (Matthew 6:26)

Don’t believe the lies or focus on your flaws. This doesn’t define you. Accept God’s gift of grace and be clothed in white. Every wrong made right because you are priceless.

The Christmas Story // Praise & Shine

The Christmas story as told in Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1, 3-20, and Matthew 2:1-12.

No greater gift has ever been given, no example of generosity so selfless, no act in human history so important than Jesus. Born to sacrifice himself for us on the cross. There is no event in the world more important than the one that unifies people and God, bringing eternal, abundant life and promising that we are never alone. Merry Christmas and may God bless you.

Broken Pieces // Praise & Shine

God created us as a beautiful creation, but sin enters our lives and begins chipping away that beauty leaving us broken in pieces. No matter how hard we try to clean up our own lives, to make ourselves look presentable again, we can never really be restored to our original beauty on our own. It’s only with Jesus.

Scripture tells us that Jesus washes us white as snow. He takes away the sins that ruined God’s beautiful creation and restores us to righteousness.

If you don’t know Jesus today, I pray that you will come to accept him and his free gift of salvation because it’s only through him that we can be restored to God’s beautiful creations.

Unanswered Prayer // Praise & Shine

Sometimes unanswered prayers are a blessing of protection. It’s comforting knowing that our God never makes a mistake, and He has great plans for us.

God could perform every miracle, answer every prayer, and perform acts of omnipotence to prove His power, but He doesn’t. His desire isn’t to force obedience from acts of power. What God wants is for us to know Him intimately as our Father, Friend, Comforter, Counselor, Lord–willingly, not under compulsion. Only faith can summon a response of love. Untested faith is unreliable faith, and without faith, it is impossible to love God.

We don’t grow in comfort. It’s in hard and discouraging times that don’t make sense; that our faith is strengthened and made more resilient. It is in these times that we lean into the Lord even more.

The best days are still ahead, so get ready! Stay in high anticipation of what God has planned for you, and do not be discouraged by unanswered prayer.