John Townsend
American clinical psychologist, leadership consultant, and best-selling author.
The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.
Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.
Whatever our situation, we feel some sense of confusion, anxiety, and helplessness. At the same time, we think about God and wonder where He is.
I can’t keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty.
We must exercise faith. We don’t pretend we’re fine. We don’t deny it. But we trust in Him.
…faith in God creates the possibility that even if our situations do not change, life can be good.
Hope is impossible unless we experience empathy and identification. We cannot feel hopeful that things will be OK unless someone understands what we are going through and gets it.
I have noticed in this economic downturn that more of my friends talk about God…
Some of us have young faith, some broken faith, and some mature faith.
Faith grows when we assume the position of one who can’t do it all by himself. That means we go to God, follow Him, and ask Him for help.