The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.
The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
With God, there is always a future.
From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period.
God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.
Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
You will never go wrong obeying God.
The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
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