God's Priority...

Our focus on the body (the flesh) isn't God's priority. ~ Tiffany Smiling

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. ~ Isaiah 55:8-9

His Disciple?

Jesus says - If you are My disciple you must be right not only in your living, but in your motives, in your dreams, in the recesses of your mind. You must be so pure in your motives that God Almighty can see nothing to censure. ~ Oswald Chambers

Sanctification

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly. ~ Oswald Chambers

Holiness...

The Bible as a whole speaks more of God's holiness than of His love. — Walter Chantry

Delivered from Sin and Death

God delivered us from sin and death through the gift of his Son. We become like Jesus as we offer ourselves to God through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Our own effort, our own power, and our own perfection will always fall short of God's holiness and majesty. ~ Phil Ware

His Plans...

God interrupts our plans for the sake of His. ~ Tiffany Smiling

But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations. ~ Psalm 33:11 (NIV 1984)

Be Careful

Be careful for those moments in your life when you have given yourself a negative identity, telling yourself that you can't do something or that you aren't supposed to. Let God be the authority on what you should and shouldn't do because there are a lot of purposes that he wants you to accomplish. 
~ Aaron Bunker

Day by Day...

Day by day, morning by morning, begin your walk with Him in the calm trust that God is at work in everything. ~ Anne Ortlund

In Christ Alone...

Ultimately, we do not find our hope in answered prayer, we find our hope in God alone.  ~ Frank Moore

In Christ Alone 

In Spite of Us...

Sometimes God works in spite of us, but He always works with us. ~ David Busic

7 WAYS TO CHANGE SOMEONE’S LIFE

7 WAYS TO CHANGE SOMEONE’S LIFE

1. Forgive someone.

2. Compliment someone.

3. Enrich someone.

4. Comfort someone.

5. Love someone.

6. Promote someone.

7. Reconnect with someone.

~ Stan Toler

God's Word...

Every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God’s Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who's Thirsty?

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty. ~ G. Donald Gale

Faithful Endurance...

Father, through your Holy Spirit, please inspire me to faithful endurance no matter what circumstances, evil people, or Satan may bring my way. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

~ Phil Ware

Peace, Contentment, Love, and Joy

Nothing in this world will fill the deep crevices of your life with peace, contentment, love and joy except God. ~ Sally Clarkson

Hope Is...

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

~ G.K. Chesterton

Unceasing Prayer...

There are parts of our calling, works of the Holy Spirit, and defeats of the darkness that will come no other way than through furious, fervent, faith-filled, unceasing prayer. 
~ Beth Moore

Don't Hide Your Faith

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness. ~ Justice Clarence Thomas

On the Surface...

Things aren't always as they appear to be on the surface. Sometimes the people who most trouble us are the ones facing trouble in their own lives. ~ C. Hosher

We're Not So Different...

We're not so different. We all bleed, hurt, laugh, hope, smile, cry, and love. Our similarities far outnumber our differences. ~ J. Selvidge

A Christian Is Fearless

The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants those who belong to Him to be brave and fearless. He Himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit. This is the testimony of the apostles and in particular of the representative, administrating Spirit. A Christian is fearless. ~ Tertullian

Greatness...

What is greatness? When people see you and get a glimpse of their own purpose. When people hear you and discover their own destiny. When people watch you and want to do what you are doing because you are doing the what your Father does. Be great! ~ Bob Hazlett

Week After Week...

Regrettably, it has become acceptable to sit in church week after week and do nothing but call you yourself a follower of Christ. ~ Ed Stetzer

Need of God's Grace

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

~ Anonymous

Dangerously Comfortable...

We have become dangerously comfortable. Believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel. ~ Francis Chan

Rarely If Ever...

Rarely (if ever) do we consider whether our actions or lifestyle are grievous to the Spirit of the living God. ~ Francis Chan

Use of Life...

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James

Power of Prayer

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

~ Max Lucado

Manure?

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly. ~ Francis Chan

The early church was spread out because of persecution and the church grew dramatically!

United in Christ

Being united by what we fear is a poor substitute for being united in the love of Christ.  ~ David Busic

Believe All of HIM

Jesus said, 'Believe also in Me,' not 'Believe certain things about Me.'

~ Oswald Chambers

Disputes...

Winsome, rugged holiness is not censorious or judgmental. It refuses to engage in disputes that divide, destroy, and demean. ~ Middendorf

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. ~ Titus 3:9 (NIV)