The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.
God’s approval is a whole lot easier to get than man’s.
God’s desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they’re meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.
The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.
Trying to obey and serve God before we’ve come to love Him can be exhausting.
I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.
When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.
When God’s Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it’s no longer what we do – it’s part of who we are.
All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.
We have a very real God with a very real presence.
Let’s pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.
May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.
Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.
If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.
Authentic faith cannot help but act.
The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I’m hurting.
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
We long to find someone who has been where we’ve been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.