Daily Hope Devotionals - Focus

What matters most to you? What are the top three or four values in your life? Here’s a decision that will transform your life: Choose God’s values over the world’s. Moses made this life-shaping resolution. … Continue reading Name Your Values, Then Live by Them

Daniel’s prayer in Daniel 9 provides us with a great model for how to pray during a crisis. In the last few devotionals, we’ve learned from this passage to let God speak to us before … Continue reading Step Four in Crisis: Show God You’re Serious

Daniel gives us a great blueprint for prayer during difficult times. We can find six important principles for this in Daniel 9. In the last devotional, we looked at the first of those principles: We … Continue reading Step Two in Crisis: Focus and Seek God

Prayer is the key to enduring any crisis. We can see this with Daniel and his prayer life. When the time grew closer for the Israelites to return to their homeland, Daniel knew his people … Continue reading Step One in Crisis: Listen and Let God Speak

Over the last few days in these devotionals, I’ve shown you what Daniel did when facing an impossible situation. The king had asked for someone to interpret an unusual dream. The king’s wise men couldn’t … Continue reading Who Gets the Credit?

Most of us don’t really know what to do when we’re confronted by an impossible situation. Did you know that a teenage boy from thousands of years ago can help? Over the past few devotionals, … Continue reading Why You Need to Worship

Has someone ever asked you to do something you thought was impossible? Maybe a friend, boss, or parent came to you and wanted you to do something that seemed too big for you to accomplish … Continue reading How to Tackle the Impossible

When you want to repair a relationship where there is conflict, you want to focus on reconciliation, not resolution. There’s a big difference! Reconciliation means reestablishing the relationship. It doesn’t mean you’ll remarry your ex … Continue reading Your Ministry of Reconciliation

Christianity is not for weaklings, wimps, or the faint of heart. It takes courageous men and women to follow Jesus. Believers around the world are suffering in terrible ways that most of us will never … Continue reading You Can Worry or You Can Worship

When you approach someone to resolve a conflict, you first have to confess your part of the problem. Then, you need to listen for the other person’s hurt and perspective. We think we argue over … Continue reading For Conflict Resolution, Switch Your Focus