Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?
God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You’ve not gone too far!
When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.
Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.
When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37.
We live by faith. We love by faith.
Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who’ve nearly been destroyed.
We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.
Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.
I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.
A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He’s worked in our past.
Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It’s God that heals. Time only tells.
It’s never fun when we’re in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.
When you accept the fact that God is determined about you and you add to it your determination about Him, I am telling you there’ll be no stopping you from fulfilling the absolutely God-ordained destiny He has for you.
Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.
God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts.
For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it’s almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.
Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it’s there.
If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.
Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.