A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.
The devil wants to stop any believer from fulfilling his or her God-given destiny. He also knows that most believers feel almost invulnerable after a mountaintop experience with God. Actually, that’s when we are most vulnerable because falling into sin is the last thing we’re expecting. We’re wise to expect times of testing after times of blessing.
If you’ll follow Christ’s commands, you’ll follow Christ straight to your calling and you’ll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.
Sometimes all you could do for the suffering was to make sure they knew someone was suffering right there with them. Someone who had also felt stricken, and smitten, and afflicted.
Nobody is left more wanting than the one who did only what he wanted.
Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.
We’ll probably never learn to enjoy our storms, but we can learn to enjoy God’s presence in the midst of them.
Had you been a spectator during only the first three days of creation, you might not have judged it as good. What good are seed-bearing plants with no sun for photosynthesis? In His wisdom God knew the work was good because He knew what was coming next. He knows what’s coming next for you. That’s why He can judge His work in you as good. Give God room to be completely creative. Meet with Him daily as He unfolds the plan in perfect order. He’s really good at what He does.
Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.
I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it’s the death of you.
When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. “Mommy, God’s really showing off today!
Don’t think your testimony is meaningless if you didn’t have a dramatic conversion. Every conversion cost the same amount of Christ’s blood shed on the cross. Yours is just as meaningful as the most dramatic conversion ever told.
Stick with me here, because this is important: Virtually nothing we come up against in our individual Christian lives is more formidable than a stronghold. The very nature of the term tells us that whatever it is, it has a “strong hold” on us. Strongholds can’t be swept away with a spiritual broom. We can’t fuss at them and make them flee. We can’t ignore them until they disappear. Strongholds are broken one way only: they have to be demolished.
He gives us a sudden splash of happiness here and there so we can wet our toes in what we’ll be swimming in for eternity.
If I live at the eastern horizon or settle at the western limits, even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will hold on to me. Psalm 139:9–10.
We must call on Him to fight our battles for us and through us and to stand us on steady feet in a confidence only He can supply. We must ask Him to bring forth the women in us that we didn’t even know we were.
Every time we believe God, He credits it to our account as righteousness.
Forgiveness is not passivity, dear one. It is power.
God never forgets His promises to us. In turn, He intends for His children never to forget His faithfulness to fulfill them.
The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love.