This week’s memory verse is Philippians 4:6 – Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

This week’s memory verse is Philippians 4:6 – Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Almost 1 in 20 young people aged 15 to 19 became homeless for the first time during the COVID 19 pandemic. The reasons ranged from domestic violence, drug and alcohol, unstable employment, mental illness and the negative impacts of COVID.
If Jesus was in front of you right now, would your first thought be to make everything perfect? Or to stop and spend time with Him? When we fully grasp the priorities of heaven, our own priorities and habits also change.
‘The battle is the Lord’s.’ And He’s never lost one yet! David may have felt small, but he knew God was big enough for the job. Do you know that?
Take courage—you’ll get through this storm!
Journalist Mark wasn’t glad he got sick. But without it, he’d never have discovered and tapped into the strength to confront and overcome some of his core fears.
Your aim should be to help people cope with their crisis and grow through it.
Every time you waver or pull back, you lay another brick in the wall that will ultimately keep you from reaching your God-ordained destiny.
You’ll always have to deal with fear in one form or another. And your fears will be different at different seasons of life.
It happens so easily, especially in the company of the wrong people. Before you know it, you’re criticising and complaining, and the atmosphere becomes negative.
We talk so easily about things that don’t matter. But when it’s time to talk about our fears, our loneliness, our guilt, or our need to be loved, we clam up like oysters.
Fear makes us doubt God’s care. The disciples asked Jesus, ‘Do You not care that we are perishing?’ (Mark 4:38)
By ‘telling’ on your anxieties, they begin to lose their power.