We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.
Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!
Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.
We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.
Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we’re dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.
When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.
Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull’s eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That’s where the enemy plans to bring us down.
Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.
Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.
I don’t want any of the things that I fear to happen, but this I know, if they do, my God will take care of me.
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.
We know we’re coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.
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.