His love is the soil in which all the fruits of the Spirit grow. When our roots abide there, then joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control grow naturally in our hearts.
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.
We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
Satan’s primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria.
The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God’s absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.
If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
Repentance is belief in action.
Satan’s most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,“Stop sinning”, it says,“Behold your God”.
We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?
Don’t feel your way into your beliefs; believe your way into your feelings.
Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.
Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.