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It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.
Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
We are the product of our thinking, so it is important that we choose carefully where to focus our mental energy.
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.
God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
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.
Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.
We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.
The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.
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.
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
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.
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.