Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ’s sake. Amen.
A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard.
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
When you don’t know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you.
I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.