Titus 2 Magazine

06/15/2024

06/15/2024

Yep💪

06/14/2024

Yes Lord

06/14/2024

Sometimes we can’t make sense of what God is allowing. All of which makes us hold our trust ever so close to our chests, until it becomes more tied to our fears than to our faith.

That’s where I was when my friends Bob and Maria invited me to a retreat at their mountain home. I needed God to untangle some of my trust issues. And the retreat was going well until someone handed me a helmet. We were about to do a ropes course.

I looked at the space between the edge of the platform and the bar. I saw death. Bob saw life. What a visual for the word "trust." What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.

I can’t tell you how long I stood there. It felt like days and milliseconds all at the same time. The world swirled and tilted and shifted without me so much as twitching a muscle fiber. I forgot to breathe. I couldn’t even blink.

I imagine you’ve been in situations that felt quite paralyzing as well. And it’s in these times I have to tie my heart to soul-steadying verses like Hebrews 13:5-6: “Because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’ So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?’”

The peace of our souls does not have to rise and fall with unpredictable people or situations. Our feelings will shift, of course. People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all God is. And though we can’t predict His specific plans, the fact that God will work everything together for good is a completely predictable promise (Romans 8:28).

Finally, I closed my eyes, and without any other conscious thought, my soul kicked in where my brain could not. My feet exploded off the platform and into midair. I touched the bar — but did not catch it. I didn’t need to. Because trust caught me.

-Lysa TerKeurst

What makes it difficult for you to trust God sometimes?

06/13/2024

1 Chronicles 16:11

06/12/2024

📖✨ Feeling overwhelmed? Need some spiritual guidance? Here are your Bible Emergency Numbers! These verses offer comfort, peace, and strength for every situation. Remember, no phone service is required—just direct your petitions heavenward. 🙏✨

06/12/2024

“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” – Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV

06/11/2024

“And they remembered that God was their rock, And the high God their redeemer.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭78:35‬ ‭

As I get older I realize my memory is not what it used to be.

Many times we remember but we need to forget and forget the things we need to remember.

Things happen in life and they overtake our thoughts and it is then that we need to remember God —

who He is and who we are in Him.

When our focus is on Him the other things aren’t so overwhelming.

Today remember God, our Rock and Redeemer.

- Debbie Vaughan

06/10/2024

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06/05/2024

Imitating and following Jesus as a role model is challenging. Still, when we accept and believe in Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, we receive new life through the indwelling Holy Spirit. We can begin the process of becoming like Jesus and reflecting His attributes of love, holiness, obedience, servant-heartedness, and unreserved trust in the Father. I’m encouraged by this verse in Philippians: “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him” (Philippians 2:13, NLT).

I have begun to be more intentional as I interact with people. My prayer and purpose are to be more loving and patient with my family as well as kind and gracious to the server in the restaurant, the sales clerk in the store, friends, and neighbors. I hope to reflect Christ to whoever crosses my path.

My conformity to Christ, though, is still very much an ongoing process as I guard against pride, impatience and complacency. I can never presume on my past walk with God. My ability to reflect His character comes only through my daily walk with Him, in which I surrender my thoughts, actions and plans to His will.

How humbling it is to think of becoming like Jesus. May this divine goal encourage us not only to accept His purpose for us but also to desire it.

-Cynthia Heald

In what specific ways can you become more moldable in God’s hands?

What changes in attitude or actions do you sense you need to make to live as Jesus lived?