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Inflated Obstacles - #5839
The longer you look at the hill, the bigger it gets. But the longer you look at the God you belong to, the bigger He gets. You've been looking at the wrong thing, fixated on the problem, or the challenge, or the people, and missing the awesome size of your God!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/inflated-obstacles-5839
The High Cost of Forgetting - #5792
When we stop praising God, we start forgetting God. And when we forget the kind of God we have, we start wandering, we start getting hurt, and we are much more likely to take matters into our own hands, to panic, to get impatient, to get discouraged or to get depressed. But the more you train yourself to be a "praiser," the less mistakes you're going to make - the less regrets you're going to have.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-high-cost-of-forgetting-5792
While the Window's Open - #5767
When your child is ready to talk, you had better drop everything and listen then. The window won't be open for long. When your child is ready to be affectionate, you have got nothing more important to do than respond. When your son or daughter has time to be with you, you had better have time to be with them. The same applies to your mate, your parents, others that you love.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/while-the-windows-open-5767
The Sandcastle Syndrome - #5762
Jesus is inviting us to focus what we have on something that will last forever - building His church. Even our Christian work could be building our own kingdom...which won't last. You see, that church is not about an actual physical building. It's about reaching the lost people He died for; adding them to His family.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-sandcastle-syndrome-5762
The Oscar Outlook - #5745
When Jesus was born, the announcement was, "He will save His people from their sins." That is all the garbage and junk of our past - the sins that we have done and the sins that have been done to us.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-oscar-outlook-5745
Seeing What Isn't Working - #5730
Could it be that you've allowed yourself to start dwelling most of the time on what's wrong: what's wrong with your situation, what's wrong with your church, what's wrong with the people around you, what's wrong with your family members? Without realizing it, you've actually allowed yourself to become what the world already has more than enough of - a negatologist - a role really that is just totally unfitting for a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/seeing-what-is-not-working-5730
Settling for So Little - #5717
We get man-sized answers because we expect man-sized answers. We believe God for what we can conceive, but your God is the God of the inconceivable. We've settled for so much less than what He could do because we continually overestimate the situation and underestimate God.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/settling-for-so-little-5717
Whatever it Takes to Save a Life - #5716
What's God waiting for you to do and be part of the answer to your own prayers? Please do whatever He asks you to do, whatever that takes, whatever that costs to assist in the rescue. And don't stop praying for them, don't stop loving them, don't stop believing God for their eternal soul.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/whatever-it-takes-to-save-a-life-5716
Your Skin Goes Everywhere - #5715
So, being a Christian doesn't mean adding a list of spiritual things to do. It means letting Christ make the things you're already doing His things. So, you drive unselfishly, you dedicate your car to helping others, you shop for Jesus; trying to bring some of His joy and love into the grocery store where you're shopping.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/your-skin-goes-everywhere-5715
Heavy On the Healthy Stuff - #5703
Just like cholesterol, you can't just be against the bad input. You need to be making a conscious, daily effort to load up on God's ideas and attitudes. Jesus said if you clean out one evil spirit and you just leave an empty space there, seven spirits worse will come back and fill that space. So, you have to fill the space in your thinking and your emotions that the dark stuff has been occupying.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/heavy-on-the-healthy-stuff-5703