Christian worship flows from both the awe of God’s glory and the gratitude for his personal, gracious works. Remembering what God has done in the past strengthens faith, restores weary hearts, and deepens our response to him. As seen in Psalms 124 and 103, worship becomes richer when rooted in personal testimony—when we recall how God has delivered, healed, and walked with us. Reflecting on these moments renews our trust and invites us to engage with God not just in thought, but from the heart.

Believers can come to God in prayer with confidence, knowing He always hears—even when His presence feels distant. The Psalms show a model of honest, daily prayer, where both joy and struggle are brought before God. These simple rhythms of devotion, especially in the morning, anchor the heart in trust. Prayer isn’t about informing God of our needs—He already knows—but about forming our dependence on Him. Through honest conversation with God, we learn to walk with Him in every season, receiving His grace, strength, and presence for the day ahead.

Grace is not a payback plan, it’s a door. God’s grace can be seen as an interruption to the destructive path of sin to offer a new way of freedom. Grace is glorious not because it fights back against sin—grace is glorious because it completely disarms death and starts a celebration of freedom.

Jesus was not pointing out that the woman had a greater debt to pay. He was showing Simon that the woman knew her debt was great, and that the rest of those gathered were blind to their need for Jesus. The woman received forgiveness, and most of all, she got love.

God doesn’t deny the reality of trouble. He doesn’t leave out the fact that humans can’t see into the future, struggle to give up control, and worry all the time. Instead, the word of God gives space for the honest place of human hearts. And in that uncertainty comes the clear invitation to wait on the Lord.

There’s no promise that God will give us whatever we want, but that doesn’t stop Jesus from extending the invitation. If we only fixate on the outcomes of asking, seeking, and knocking, we might miss that Jesus is first inviting us to a posture of anticipation. God is a giving God, so positioning our hearts in a place of asking with expectation helps us to align with his will.

Christian faith can only be approached from a place of utter humility. It proclaims that the only thing we bring to the table is a dead heart but what we get in return is an invitation to everlasting life. That’s because God, in his love, was kind to you.

Faith can start with an explosion of energy and passion, or it can take the path of slow heart transformation. Working through the complexities of trusting in God is no simple task—much less persisting in faith throughout all the blessings and hardships of life. We can take our sins and sorrows directly to the Savior. God has not only purchased our freedom. He has invited us to the seat of reconciliation and peace. If faith for you feels like a rush of excitement, run to the throne room. If your heart is slowly turning to the Shepherd, look again to the seat of grace.