Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLPatience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.
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We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
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The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you’re not.
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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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It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.
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When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
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Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
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Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
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Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
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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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No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God’s responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have – even if it’s no more than a sack lunch.
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Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.
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Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.
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