To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.
Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.
Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.
When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.
God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.
Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.
Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it.
Not once does the Bible report that (Jesus) rushed anywhere. He was often busy, but never in a mad dash. And yet He perfectly accomplished all the Father designed for Him to do.
Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.
God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!
Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.
GRACE: All you can do is take it.
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Take charge of your thoughts!
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Lead with action and let the feelings follow.
There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.
Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
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