Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.
Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.
The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.
I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.
Really showing love requires more than just words.
So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.
The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.
Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
