You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.
You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.
You were born to be amazing.
Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.
You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.
When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.
It takes the Word of God plus the Spirit of God to equal the Truth of God.
Anyone can give away something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give away something valuable.
Fear is the most socially accepted sin in the Church. Fear is a serial killer, the prime suspect in the death of more people on the planet than all other diseases combined. Fear in every form has been linked to heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disorders, mental illness and many other sicknesses. Fear is the welcome mat to demonic activity in our lives.
Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.
Many people’s circumstances dictate their stances. They become powerless victims of other people’s actions and attitudes. They wrongly believe that their physical situation is their condition. The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.
Fear dismembers and disfigures our perspective of God, making Him seem a powerless pawn controlled by our circumstances. But when we re-member the Lord and re-count His works, we begin to re-form our vision of His greatness in our hearts.
Did you notice that trials do not test our character, they test our faith? Faith is fundamentally a relational term – it is not first a matter of what you believe, but of whom you trust. The battle for our trust is as old as Adam and Eve. In the midst of battle, it can seem so complex, but when the dust settles and the smoke clears, the real war is always over the same question – whom will we believe? Whom will we listen to, God or the devil?
The truth is, Jesus didn’t die for junk.
The quickest way to lose our peace in the midst of a spiritual conflict is to forget that our salvation came from His works and not ours. If our salvation was won through our efforts, then it would be up to us to fight to keep it. But we are not fighting for our salvation – we are fighting from our salvation.
If Jesus has all authority, that would mean that Satan has none! We are in Christ, therefore we carry His authority into every circumstance, every geographic location and every situation. The only way that Satan has authority is when we give it to him. That is why he works so hard to get us to empower him through lies, sin or covenant agreements.