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Many godly people truly believe that their heavenly Father loves them, but they're equally convinced that some parts of their lives are unworthy of God’s favor. They try to partition off these failed parts of their lives so they can fix them and then reveal them to the Lord. After years of battling their failures, however, they’re still overwhelmed by these weaknesses. After a while, they begin to assume they have lost God’s favor forever. (Read by Jason Staples)

All of us have seasons in all our lives when we feel stuck, stranded on a spiritual plateau with nothing to show for our faith. Many Christians don’t think God is against them, but they can’t seem to find the blessing of His favor. However, God’s desire at all times is to bring healing to our lives, but he doesn’t do it by waving a magic wand over all our difficulties. No, His promise is to be with us and bring joy to us through our difficulties.
(Read by Jason Staples)

Favor follows you. How do you respond to this idea, especially as you look around at this broken, fallen world where we will never be problem-free? When we are struggling to survive and one need after another is rushing at us, we must remember that the Bible tells us exactly what the Lord is doing in our crises. This week, Gary Wilkerson discusses two urgent truths that we must know and cling to in the midst of hardship. (Read by Jason Staples)

Cynicism is a know-it-all, seen-it-all attitude that cuts off our belief in God’s abilities. In this chapter, Gary Wilkerson points out how this mentality is easy to slide into but can have serious implications for our life with Christ. Ominously, Matthew’s gospel points out at one point, “[Jesus] did only a few miracles there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58). How do we avoid limited God's access to our lives this way? (Read by Jason Staples)

If you’re from a broken family, you may fear the heritage passed down to you; but according to God’s Word, you can be the forerunner to a blessed generation. All it takes is one of us reaching out with Christ’s forgiveness, and everything can change. Your family’s greatest season begins when one person takes a stand and says, “No more. God, help me make things change, starting today.” (Read by Jason Staples)

Too many of us see God as a judge who wields a threatening gavel of condemnation. Actually, the opposite is far more often true. Do you believe your Abba Father is always looking out for your best interests? No matter whether our issues are big or small, his loving favor toward us is the same all the time because his giving nature never changes. So how do we transform our image of God from that of a punitive master to a loving Father who honors our faith even when we fail him? (Read by Jason Staples)