First thought of the morning, last worry of the night—your Goliath dominates your day and infiltrates your joy.
Don’t worry about skills you don’t have. Don’t covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.
Don’t confuse God’s love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God’s love. He loves you right where you are.
Don’t be too quick in your assessment of God’s gifts to you. Thank him. Moment by moment. Day by day.
Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.
Contrary to what we’d hope, good people aren’t exempt from violence. Murderers don’t give the godly a pass. Rapists don’t vet victims according to spiritual résumés. The bloodthirsty and wicked don’t...
Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It’s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It’s whom we discover in the storm: an unstirr...
Can you imagine the restaurant host removing his tuxedo coat and offering it to me? Jesus does. We’re not talking about an ill-fitting, leftover jacket. He offers a robe of seamless purity and dons my...
But there is no way we can move forward together if you’re going to hold me hostage to the past.
But God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test, and teach the future prime minister. We see a prison; God sees a kiln. We see famine; God sees the...
Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. MATTHEW 5:4
Because of Calvary, I’m free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love . . . No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness.
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life (Prov. 4:23 NCV). Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then
Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that...
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. (Genesis 50:20 NASB)
Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.
And if we never agree, can’t we agree to disagree? If God can tolerate my mistakes, can’t I tolerate the mistakes of others? If God can overlook my errors, can’t I overlook the errors of others? If Go...
And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term
Accept teaching from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart. [ Job 22:22 NCV ]
¡Esta es la promesa de la oración! ¡Podemos hacer cambiar de idea a Dios! Su voluntad final es inflexible, pero la implementación de su voluntad no lo es. Él no cambia su carácter ni su propósito, per...