Hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Romans 5:5.
Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill?
Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession. 1 Timothy 6:12.
Affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. Romans 5:3–4.
The tongues of God’s people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, we need to pursue it regularly and cooperate with God to receive it.
If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2.
If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all. Isaiah 7:9.
These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD’S commands and obey them. Numbers 15:39.
He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. Revelation 22:1.
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.