You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.
When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.
God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.
Don’t give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.
You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.
God’s love for me is perfect because it’s based on Him, not on me. So, even when I failed, He kept loving me.
You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don’t quit!
Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.
I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do – and not worrying over what you can’t do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life’s doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.
Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.
If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don’t let the way they act control you. Dave didn’t let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he’s got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.
Discouragement destroys hope, so naturally the devil always tries to discourage us. Without hope we give up, which is what the devil wants us to do. The Bible repeatedly tells us not to be discouraged or dismayed. God knows that we will not come through to victory if we get discouraged, so He always encourages us as we start out on a project by saying to us, “Don’t get discouraged.” God wants us to be encouraged, not discouraged.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. PROVERBS 23:7.
As children of God, one of the privileges we have is believing the impossible.
The mind is the battlefield.
The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
Lord, I need to see You and hear Your voice over and above the storms in my life. Help me to break free of anything that is holding me back from doing.
Calm down, stop trying to figure out the answers, and turn your focus to God.