Daily Hope Devotionals - Hurt

Since God thought up the whole idea of relationships between men and women, parents and children, and friends, doesn’t it make sense to go him for direction when you have a problem? As today’s verse … Continue reading If You Want to Know What to Do, Just Ask

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

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

Forgiveness isn’t easy. It can be one of the hardest decisions you’ll ever make. But you’ll never have the life God wants for you unless you can forgive the people who have hurt you. Here … Continue reading Three Reasons You Must Learn to Forgive

Every change we experience in life includes loss, because you give up something old to get something new. And there’s no loss without pain, and there is no pain without grief. Grief is not bad. … Continue reading You’ve Got to Let Yourself Grieve

We’re all broken people. We’re all imperfect. Sometimes we hurt each other intentionally or unintentionally. Life isn’t fair. Innocent people suffer. Everyone has experienced unfair or prejudicial treatment in some way. How do you respond … Continue reading God Wants to Make the Bitter in Your Life Better

Imagine yourself in Joseph’s shoes. You’re preparing to get married and your fiancée—with whom you’ve never been physically intimate—announces she’s pregnant and she claims God is the father. You can understand the hurt. You can … Continue reading How Joseph Trusted God with His Disappointments

Many people know the Bible story of Joseph, whose brothers sold him into slavery but who ended up becoming second-in-command in Egypt. Years after their betrayal, Joseph confronted his brothers and said, “You intended to … Continue reading Here’s Why You Can Rejoice in Your Trials

If you want to make healthy choices to be well and whole again, you have to learn to be meek. Matthew 5:5 says, “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (NIV). The … Continue reading Meekness Does Not Equal Weakness

Remember what photography was like before everything went digital? When you took a picture, the first thing you’d get was a negative. Then you had to develop the negative into a positive by going into … Continue reading God’s Plan for Your Pain