Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLMake a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you’re too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy
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We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
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Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
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The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.
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The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
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Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
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If we choose to be offended when we don’t get our own way, Then we’re going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, ” A merry heart does good like a medicine,” It’ll make all the difference in the world.
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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity.
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Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!
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God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
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We aren’t just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose
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It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day – not I.
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There is no counsel like God’s counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
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Friends make life a lot more fun.
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God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
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It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.
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Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.
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Consistency: It’s the jewel worth wearing; It’s the anchor worth weighing; It’s the thread worth weaving; It’s a battle worth winning.
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God doesn’t work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.
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When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until He says, ‘Go.
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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don’t quit, whatever you do. Persevere.
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Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
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God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.
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