Divorce is not merely separating; it is the tearing apart of what was once joined together.
Things that are covered don’t heal well.
Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.
When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.
We claim we are not emotional, yet we are so sensitive that a vicious word from a cruel woman can leave the most manly of us impotent! A cutting statement can undermine the strength, vigor, and vitality of even the strongest of men. Most women greatly underestimate the power of their words to magnify or crush their husbands’ strength.
There is no success like the success of a man who had to persevere in order to receive it. People appreciate the victory when they have to walk it out.
If you want to be victorious in all your endeavors, then don’t lean on your own understanding or to your own devices or innovations. Instead, in all your ways acknowledge the Lord, and He will direct your path.
Why am I here?” You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.
Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God’s unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation.
In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
What are you going to do with what you have been given?
Before you get to the place that is calling you, recognize whom you can talk to about your destiny and whom you can’t. Dream killers will.
Increase your capacity to receive what is destined to happen if you believe! If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible. You may have to stretch yourself or enlarge your circle of associates. You may have to expose yourself beyond your comfort zone or speak when you are naturally introverted. Stretch yourself; it’s worth it!
Instinct and purpose often operate like a marriage.
When you hold on to your history, you do so at the expense of your destiny.
We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.
The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.
Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.
He wants you to offer hope to those being crushed and struggling to understand.
When the Master gives us the vision of what he’s going to do in our lives, He shows us the mountain peaks while He hides the valleys. If you saw the climb you would have to endure to get to the mountaintop, you would abandon the entire trip.