We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
An anniversary says, “Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments.”
There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
Choose to view life through God’s eyes.
If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it’s high time we give each other a break.
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His – completely.
Prejudice is a learned trait. You’re not born prejudiced; you’re taught it.
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.
People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.
Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.
Worry and faith just don’t mix.