Daily Hope Devotionals - Awesome Relationships

If you want to build a deep relationship with God, you have to slow down and be quiet. Friendship with God is like any other friendship—you have to make time for it. If you don’t … Continue reading Give God Your Best Time

You’re never going to become a friend of God in your spare time. You have to make knowing God your number one priority in life. Paul says it like this: “Everything else is worthless when … Continue reading Knowing God Is What Matters Most

Pride destroys relationships. It shows up in a lot of different ways, like criticism, competition, stubbornness, and superficiality. The problem with pride is it’s self-deceiving. Everybody else can see it in us but us. When … Continue reading Humility Builds Relationships

Selfishness destroys relationships. It is the number one cause of conflict, arguments, divorce, and even war. James 4:1 says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within … Continue reading Healthy Relationships Need Less of ‘Me’ and More of ‘You’

Listening is probably the most important skill in building friendships and relationships, because you can’t love people without listening to them. There’s a big difference between hearing and listening. You can hear something and not … Continue reading You Can’t Love People Without Listening to Them

When we’re full of fear and anxiety, we don’t get close to each other. We back off from each other. We’re afraid of being rejected, manipulated, vulnerable, hurt, or used. All of these fears cause … Continue reading Don’t Let Fear Keep You from Deepening Friendships

In Christian fellowship, people should experience authenticity. Authentic fellowship is not superficial, surface-level chit-chat. It’s genuine, heart-to-heart, sometimes gut-level sharing. It happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in … Continue reading Authentic Friendships Happen in the Light