Idolatry is the thing that will always get in the way of and ultimately destroy your relationship with God, your heavenly father.
Those whom the Lord uses will have to be willing to be misunderstood and persecuted by people who have historically meant a great deal to them.
Studies have consistently revealed that a lot of people who attend church do not really have a personal relationship with God. My friend, that is a staggering revelation, and the implications for the church are far-reaching!
God always threw the life preserver that messed-up, selfish humans desperately needed, right when they needed it...Right at the point of breaking, when they’d actually grab on.
Will we abandon the dream to the brutality of the road that we must walk in order to bring the dream to reality? Or will we lay ourselves before God as the author of dreams and leveler of roads?
Grace is as precious as pearls.
The grace of righteousness of faith leads to repentance.
God is in control + God is good + God loves you = Your peace
We'll trust God for our eternal salvation, but not trust him in the small details of our day-to-day life?
The battle didn’t just happen to happen. Rather, God invited us to the battle so that we could be left utterly breathless at the miraculous way that He won it. And once we witness that kind of victory, our need to fight anything is replaced by His ability to win everything.
It’s not that I don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that I don’t believe in not believing in God.
Praying is deep passion.
What a privileged to pray?
The spirit of purposeful prayer is to seek the heavenly blessings.
Everything feverishly works to convince us that they can be everything that we need. And when will the level of our impoverishment finally convince us that we should be unconvinced?
If the candles that I am lighting are those that I have so cleverly crafted, a thousand of them or more amassed together cannot dispel the darkness from which I am forever seeking refuge. Yet, a solitary candle fashioned by God leaves the entire world a place where even the slightest of shadows has no refuge, and my candles no purpose.
If the alternative to believing in God is believing in men, then the answer as to why I should believe in God is not only simple, it’s blatantly obvious.
Brotherly love is a blessings of life.
Fast is a royal feast.
Faith is the seed of faithfulness.