Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do. Deuteronomy 29:9.
We must be sober and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation. 1 Thessalonians 5:8.
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2.
We must remember we don’t stand in victory because of our faith. We stand in victory because of our God. Faith in faith is pointless. Faith in a living, active God moves mountains.
Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy. ” And Joshua did so. Joshua 5:15.
My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8.
Instead, I get to know that a greater yes is in progress, and I can count on the bigger miracle.
None of the good promises the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed. Everything was fulfilled. Joshua 21:45.
By the time we were knit in our mothers’ wombs, our lives were like open books before Him – every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance – all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us – lavishly.
To pick up the Sword of the Spirit without the Shield of Faith is to shrivel and dry up in the desert of legalism. To pick up the Shield of Faith without the Sword of the Spirit is to try walking by faith on quicksand.
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
If you are not royalty, He is not King.
God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.
People don’t need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?
Forgiveness doesn’t make the situation OK, it makes you OK.
A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.
Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.
You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.
God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.