To be a friend of God, you must care about all the people around you whom God cares about. Friends of God tell their friends about God.
Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God’s good plan for you.
Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.
Circumstances cannot change the character of God.
Nothing will change permanently until you dig down to the bedrock of truth about your life and God’s purpose for it.
If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about, what he cares about most is the redemption of the people he made.
Servants think about their work, not what others are doing.
Lord, I’m amazed that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. I’m grateful that you use unknown places and people for your big plans.
Faith, not feelings, pleases God.
What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.
Each of us is an original.
It’s hard to imagine that we feed ourselves and our children food that we wouldn’t even feed our dog. Would you give your dog a cheeseburger, fries, and a soda? We hope not. Then why would you feed them to your kid?
Don’t be afraid to rock the boat if Jesus is your captain.
Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.
One day your heart will stop beating. That will be the end of your body and your time on earth, but it will not be the end of you. Your earthly body is just a temporary residence for your spirit. The Bible calls your earthly body a “tent,” but refers to your future body as a “house.” The Bible says, “When this tent we live in – our body here on earth – is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.” 2.
Every human being was created by God, but not everyone is a child of God.
As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more.” 16.
You may have had so many failures at changing the way you eat or exercise or think or act that the possibility of lasting change feels like an unreachable goal. Well, to be honest with you, it probably will be – unless you plug into God’s power. What is impossible from a human standpoint is easy to God. With God, today’s impossibility is tomorrow’s miracle.
God specializes in turning weaknesses into strengths. He wants to take your greatest weakness and transform it.
Many people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.