Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  Anxiety   It is a prison. It captures your thoughts and keeps them in a vicious cycle of insecurities and a false “need to know,” as if you could control the things that will happen, but then comes the insecurity because you can’t know the future.    It is a prison.  There is a way out. Instead of believing that you will be able to foresee the future and control all the variables, why not believe in the one who has prepared your future? Knowing that He loves you very much and that everything you will go through will be for the best, even when it doesn’t look like it. Because in the end, He has won all the battles; if you only trust Him, you will have peace, and the future won’t bother you anymore.    Jesus is the Way out of this prison. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” You may think, but I don’t believe in Jesus or in God, and I tell you, but you do believe that anxiety will tell you the future and you will control it, don’t you? Don...

    "O fardo mais pesado que carregamos são os pensamentos em nossa cabeça." Troubles. Troubles with people, places, troubles in our minds, within ourselves. All kinds of troubles. We all have them. Sometimes, people say things to us, and we get sad or even disappointed, and we take this disappointment with us and carry it everywhere we go. We let those false words define us. And we end up believing in those words.    Then, when we don’t remember why or when we became like that, we blame God. We start believing that God doesn’t love us, we believe that God made a mistake with us, and we believe that God won’t accept us because of what we believe that we are. We carry those disappointments and let them define us, and we don’t even remember the source of that sadness and anger. A lot of feelings start boiling inside our hearts, and thoughts come flooding into our minds, and we feel lost, insecure, forsaken, unloved, and forgotten, and then, instead of searching for our...