You find that the things you let go of while following Jesus were the things that were going to destroy you in the end.
Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
The stress that some of us feel – it’s a lack of faith, it really is.
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.
There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God’s favor.
Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?
I’ve grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I’ve grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.
I don’t want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.
Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.
God’s presence is all that matters.
God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit’s leading TODAY than what you will do next year.
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can’t sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.
Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.