Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. – Hebrews 10:23 (NLT)

Have you ever held on to something so tightly it hurt? I remember the first time I went ziplining, I held onto my harness really tightly. I almost felt like my life depended on how tightly I held on. By the end of the ride, my hands hurt. I was holding on with all my might.

In a way that’s what we’re supposed to do with the promises we see in the Bible. We might see a promise like we’re made righteous in God’s sight. However, when we look at our own life we see all our faults, shortcomings and failures. Instead of focusing on those things, we should be holding tightly to the promises in God’s word. When we truly hold tightly to them, we let them become more important to us than the other things going on around us and our feelings.

Choose today to hold onto God’s promises without wavering. Hold on to the promises in the Bible like your life depends on it. Hold onto what God says and know that God will always come through for us on His promises. He will never let you down or leave you.

The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. – Psalm 32:8 (NLT)

Maybe you’ve started to think about what you’d like to do as a career. Some might know right away what they’d like to do. Others, the idea of choosing a career for the rest of your life might seem like an impossible task. The good news when it comes to things like choosing a career or deciding the next step for your life after high school is that you don’t have to make the decision alone.

God wants to help you! He wants to guide you along the best path for your life.

Today’s Truth: God Wants to Help Guide You

That’s good news. That means that if you follow after His plan, and get His direction, you’ll have supernatural help to know which is the right way to go. Following God doesn’t have to be overwhelming. You can be at rest, knowing that God will lead you, advise you, and watch over you.

The Purpose Planner

God has an awesome purpose for your life! But sometimes, it helps to have some scriptures and prayers to help discover what that purpose is.

That’s why we came up with the Purpose Planner. It will help you get Scriptures and practical help so that you can walk out the amazing plan God has for your life!

being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. – Philippians 1:6 (NIV)

God has a good work for your life. His purpose for your life is good. But it’s easy to let yourself become discouraged when you don’t see it all coming to pass.

There’s power in learning to be patient in the process. God always comes through. The dreams and things you’ve seen in your heart will come to pass. God hasn’t forgotten about you, and He hasn’t given up on you. However, sometimes the dreams in our hearts take longer than we’d like to come to pass.

Today’s Truth: Don’t Give Up, Your Dreams Will Come to Pass.

Part of trusting God is believing that no matter what you see, that God is faithful. He will come through for you. He will bring those dreams to pass. So no matter what you see, no matter how long it takes, determine to trust God. His plans for you are good, and they will come to pass. Don’t get discouraged or give up on them. They will happen!

He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises. – Romans 4:21 (NLT)

I’m horrible at volleyball. Like really bad. I recall one time in P.E. class, I had a volleyball coming at me, and I couldn’t get my hands together to hit it, so instead, I reacted and ended up kicking the ball instead of hitting it with my hands. The ball flew up high in the gym and went across several of the other volleyball courts. I felt really silly for kicking the ball instead of hitting it.

I might be bad at volleyball, but it reminds me of the fact that we as people are often limited. There are things we can’t do. There are things we’re just bad at. However, that’s not how God is. God is able to do whatever He promises. When we’re limited by time, ability and other constraints, God isn’t.

When God promises something, He’s able to do it. So we’ve just got to determine to take God at His word. We’ve got to trust His word more than we trust what we see around us.

We might see all the reasons why we can’t, but if God has called you to do something, then you can. You might see limitation, but God sees possibility. So trust God, let His promises be real to you, and see God do something amazing in your life!

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, – Romans 4:20 (NIV)

When you’re believing God for something, it can be easy to want to give up. Maybe you haven’t got what you are believing God for and so you just figure it’s useless. In those seasons where it’s taking so long, why not just give up on those promises of God?

And no one would blame you for feeling that way. However, when it comes to the things of God, it’s important to stay steady when you’re trusting God for something. Even if you don’t see the promise yet, God is always faithful. He has already provided you with what you need. All you have to do is stay steady and keep believing.

Today’s Truth: Faith Is Steady

Abraham probably had times when he wanted to give up. He probably had thoughts coming to him that said it was taking too long and that His faith wasn’t making a difference. Yet, the Bible tells us that He didn’t waiver in His faith. He kept believing God even when it seemed impossible. And God came through for him.

So even if it feels like it’s been a long time, stay encouraged. God is always faithful. You’ll not be left helpless. God has what you need. It’s already been provided for you by the work of Jesus. You’ve just got to believe it over what you see around you. It’s got to be more real than your circumstances. So today, don’t give up on God. Stay steady and you’ll see God come through for you!

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. – Romans 4:19 (NKJV)

When you’re facing something truly difficult, it can be hard to see anything but your circumstances. Maybe you see a lack of money to go on a missions trip, or you see a lack of friends and feel like it will always be this way and nothing will ever change.

Sometimes we see our circumstances and they become more real to you than what God’s Word says. And that’s only natural. We’re used to using our senses to tell us reality. Sometimes, however, you need to turn your senses off so to speak.

Instead of looking at your lack of money to go on a mission trip, you need to look to God as your source. Instead of seeing not enough friends, you need to choose to see God as more than enough.

Today’s Truth: Faith Over What You See

If you’ll determine to not consider your circumstances greater than your God, you like Abraham in today’s verse will see God’s provision in your life. You’ve got to say no to what you see and yes to what God says. You’ve got to believe by faith over what you can see. As you do that, you’ll see God come through for you. He’ll provide you everything that you need to be victorious in life!

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. – Ephesians 2:10

Have you ever been doing a group project at school? Maybe there is a lot of work to be done, so your group decides to divide up the assignment into parts.  Some of the parts don’t seem that bad, but then there are other parts that no one wants. If you’re like most students, when you’re working on school projects, you’d rather get the good parts to work on.

In the same way, God has an assignment for your life. The good news about this assignment is that it’s good work. That doesn’t mean that it’s going to be easy, but it does mean that the assignment God has for you to do is good.

You have been created to do something for God. And that something is good. So today, be encouraged. God has something for you to do to change your world. Get close to God. Spend time in His word and get to know His voice. As you do, He will begin to show you the things He has in store for you to do.