If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.
I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.
Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.
I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.
God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.
Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.
If you're in a workplace you don't like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness - and He's putting His confidence in you!
The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.
We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.
So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.
You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.
When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'
Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.
We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.
Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.
