Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.
When we submit to God’s plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God’s plan and our pleasures.
Prayer pushes us through life’s slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.
How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.
Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.
If you’re looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.
Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.
Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.
Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.
If you have a pulse, you’re going to have pain.
If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.
Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.
Sometimes I wonder if we don’t see Christ’s love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.
God’s delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
Aren’t you glad that God doesn’t give you only that which you remember to thank him for?
And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another’s future.
Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It’s not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.
God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test, and teach.
Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.
One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. “God isn’t there.”