Luke 6:43-44

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this powerful heart transforming devotional. Let God examine the ground of your heart. Choose to submit to His Word and Counsel. Only God can intimately understand, weigh and judge the heart of man. Only His Word can sift through the intentions and motives of the heart. Let go of the past and let God heal you. Let His Word every aspect of your heart.

The Bible talks a lot about "growing" - learning more about Jesus, following him more closely, obeying him more naturally, and becoming more like him in our attitudes and actions. "Grow: Becoming More Like Jesus" includes verses about seeds, roots, plants, trees, and fruit, all great images for thinking about what it means to live for Jesus.

We’re Dino and Ashley Petrone, and we have a passion for healthy, God-centered marriages. We pray that by sharing our own experiences of confronting our failures, seeking after the future, and being intentional, we can encourage others by suggesting ways to move forward with a God-centered marriage.

Do you ever work yourself up over conversations that you have with people . . . in your head? Do you ever play out worst case scenarios for things that could possibly go wrong in the future? Our thoughts can be like dangerous wildfires, if we let them. In this devotional, we’ll learn how God can help us extinguish those wildfire thoughts.