Outlook determines outcome. What you are seeing helps to determine what you are becoming. So you’d better be careful what you look at. It’s no wonder that the psalmist prays, Turn away my eyes from lo...
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to look at life in perspective and not get out of balance. When you have God’s wisdom, you will be able to accept and deal with the changing experiences of...
One minute Jacob prayed for God’s help, and the next minute he devised some new way to appease his angry brother. He reminded God of His great promises and then acted as though God had never spoken. T...
Moody’s success lay in his tremendous burden for the lost and a willingness to do whatever God asked of him. The life and ministry of this humble man of God is an example to us of what the Lord can do...
It doesn’t have to be dark outside for us to be in the middle of the night. Sometimes the darkness is in us. Discouragement moves in, and we are like Asaph, who said, My hand was stretched out in the...
Hope is not a sedative; it is a shot of adrenaline, a blood transfusion. Like an anchor, our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life (Heb. 6:18–19), but unlike an anchor, our hope moves us...
God accomplishes his will on earth through truth; Satan accomplishes his purposes through lies. When the child of God believes God’s truth, then the Spirit of God can work in power; for the Holy Spiri...
Faith can never be satisfied with anything short of the true position and portion of God’s people, wrote C. H. Mackintosh in his Notes on Numbers. An undecided, half-and-half Christian is more inconsi...
Difficult circumstances often rob us of our peace and our perspective. When you find yourself in adverse circumstances or in the face of frightening consequences, admit your trouble and affirm your tr...
But suffering does not automatically bring glory to God and blessing to God’s people. Some believers have fainted and fallen in times of trial and have brought shame to the name of Christ. It is only...
As pessoas sacrificam-se por coisas que realmente gostam. (p.68)
Above all, joy should come from the true story of the joyful God bringing salvation to sinners so they could become His children.
A marriage may begin with normal, human, romantic love, but it must grow deeper into the spiritual agape love that comes only from God.
A discouraged Methodist preacher wrote to the great Scottish preacher Alexander Whyte to ask his counsel. Should he leave the ministry? Never think of giving up preaching! Whyte wrote to him. The ange...