God’s blessings, however, aren’t always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it... a burden.
He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don’t really know Him. And because they don’t really know Him, they are lukewarm. The truth is, if you truly knew Him, you couldn’t be lukewarm or halfhearted. If you remain lukewarm, maybe it’s because you don’t know who God really is.
If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
My friends don’t think they’re rich, because they know someone who’s richer.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. – Henry David Thoreau.
It’s easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.
When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.
Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.
It’s the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.
And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound difference in countless lives.
He’s for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.
If you’re a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.
We must discern what God calls us to accomplish rather than mindlessly adding on everything presented to us.
Grace. Changes. Everything. We don’t bring anything. Jesus brings everything.
Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.
If you’re not dead, you’re not done.
How do you think your life might change if you prayed daily a daring, faith-filled prayer of whole-life devotion to the one who gave it all for you?
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. – 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 NKJV.