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The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity
I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.
The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.
Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?
You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.
It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.
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.
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a # God who is a # Creator not a # Duplicator .
Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.
The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.
If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.
My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.
I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.
Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.
You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.
Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.
The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.
In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.
As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.
God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.
Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.
You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!
People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.
Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!
The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.
The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.
You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.
We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.
When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.
The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.
The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.