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Countless believers are pursuing spiritual growth, only to repeatedly find themselves spinning their wheels and making no progress. Many are driven to just try harder. Others feel a growing sense of failure and distance from God. But for all involved, it's a frustrating cycle. What can we do when trying harder isn't working? Author and pastor Alan Kraft invites us to be still.still enough to...

are those who have their spiritual act together” or “blessed are the hard workers” or “blessed are the self-sufficient.” No. Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Jesus is not talking about financial poverty but rather a spiritual poverty—a desperation of soul in which people, deep in their being, see their spiritual condition before God and realize how completely bankrupt they truly are, utterly powerless in and of themselves. This experience of brokenness is not simply an intellectual acknowledgement