Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.
Oh, but God had a plan. A marvelous plan. He allowed Hannah to be childless so that she would petition God for a child instead of assuming it would be the normal result of marital relations. He also a...
Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for...
Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.
Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been had by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defian...
Nobody is left more wanting than the one who did only what he wanted.
My name is Pride. I am a cheater. I cheat you of your God-given destiny . . . because you demand your own way. I cheat you of contentment . . . because you deserve better than this. I cheat you of kno...
Love motivates self-less jealousy. God is jealous on our behalf. He is jealous for us to know the One True God. He is jealous for us to be in a posture of blessing. He is jealous for us to be kept fro...
Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd...
LORD, Your name endures forever, Your reputation, LORD, through all generations. Psalm 135:13
It is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Psalm 27:4
In our day and age, the Samaritan woman might have been someone we would condemn. Maybe we would point out the error of her ways rather than reach out to her in love. But what did Jesus do? He loved h...
If your expectation of God’s Word in your life has been small, I ask you to consider giving it far more credit. Second Timothy 3:16 (NIV) says, All Scripture is God-breathed, so don’t just read it lik...
I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit. Jonah 2:6
He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4
Having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life. So many people try to get hold of their emotions, but they don't realize t...
God will put you in a position to wrestle with your identity and choose whom you believe: Him or you.
God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am. I can do all things through Christ. God’s Word is alive and active in me.
God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.
Forgive me for turning too many things into competitions. For being so fixated on what I don't have that I leave the gifts You've given me underdeveloped and much less effective than You intended them...