If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.
CORRIE TEN BOOMJesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
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Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
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The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
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Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
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We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives.
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding.
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