Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.
I don’t want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
Following Christ isn’t something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.
Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.
Doesn’t every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment.
Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.
The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?
God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God.
We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit’s leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don’t want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.