Everyone needs a little ...

What sorts of music do you listen to when you are feeling down?

When I was a lot younger, I would often to resort to listening to this band called Evanescence when I felt depressed. Their music contains a lot of negative lyrics and focuses a lot on pain. While there is nothing really wrong with this kind of music, it didn't really help me in my emotional state. Often, it made me feel worse.

Sometimes we need to be careful what we feed into our spirit, particularly when we are not feeling emotionally well. Music can influence the way we react to a situation and can often lead us to responding to a situation in the wrong way.

Now, I often find myself singing Kari Jobe's song, Everybody needs a little when I am feeling down or lonely. I like this song because it gives me hope. It helps lift my spirit. It gives me joy. It reminds me of Jesus and the power he has to overcome any situation. Here are the lyrics:

Come and find peace

Everyone needs a little rest

Everyone needs a little joy

And a song to sing in the darkest night

And life even when it gets you down

Hope will turn it all around

But love is the greatest of these

Everyone needs a little

I encourage you to find a song or album that has a positive message and listen to it when you are feeling down. It doesn't have to be Christian either! Make the conscious decision to lift yourself out of the depths of despair when you are feeling down.

Who holds the key to your door?

Who holds the key to your door?

Sometimes it's easy to lock the door to your heart and throw away the key when someone hurts you.

But have you ever locked the door to your heart away from Jesus?

Sometime it's easy to want to control everything. School, Uni, work, friends, family life but it never seems to work out just the way you want it to.

And sometimes we don't even know that we're doing it.

It's so easy to just get really busy with controlling everything that we forget to talk to God about it. We forget to share our feelings with him. We forget to ask for his help.

Soon enough the wall will break down. Everything we have built will crumble because we don't have strong foundations in Jesus. We have foundations that are made by us. And they are not very strong.

We need to open in every area of our lives to him. We need to unlock the door and be set free of our own fears.

When I watch The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and watch Lucy open that door, I think of Jesus. I feel she is unlocking a world that is free of fear, control, worry and concern.

Don't worry if you have lost the key to the door to your own heart. God will help you find it.