Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
CORRIE TEN BOOMWorries carry responsibilities that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
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If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.
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Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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 school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
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You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
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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 devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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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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It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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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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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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I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
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We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.
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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!
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God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the HEART
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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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Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
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