Patience takes courage and faith. When your boss demands too much, when there is tension in your marriage, when you’ve been battling an illness for months or even years, when you’re in debt and looking for a job…we need patience, we need hope, we need courage, we need faith. In the long road behind me, …
Gratitude is such a winning way to live. If it comes from our hearts, it blesses us, blesses others, and pleases God. “Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.” –A.W. Tozer …
God is for you. No matter what trial you are going through, God is for you. No matter the mistakes you have made in your past, God is for you. His grace is for you. His comfort and peace are for you. His forgiveness is for you. “What, then, shall we say in response to …
Attitude is a choice. Choose a negative attitude and be miserable and make those around you miserable. Or, choose a positive attitude, people will want to be with you, listen to you and will help you accomplish more during the day. “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, …
Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak and one to hear.” To really value others as individuals, we must learn to listen, patently, to what they have to say. When we do this, we may learn a lot, or me may learn nothing. But, when we listen, we …
In Paul David Tripp’s excellent devotional book, “New Morning Mercies,” he shares, “your weaknesses are not the big danger that you should fear. What you should really fear are your delusions of strength.” God can do more with our weaknesses than He can our strengths. Paul knew this quite well: “But He said to me, …
Everyone who has been rescued by Jesus Christ, has hope that is far different than the world’s hope. We are not trusting in any one man, a political party, or a revolutionary new drug that will help us live longer on earth. We have hope in the One we came always trust, Jesus. “Hope means …
Be encouraged! We are all aware of our weaknesses. We fall, but God helps us up. He deserves praise because He forgives and extends His transforming grace! “The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.’”(Max Lucado) “for all have …
In Brian Dodd’s outstanding book, The Games Leaders Play, he says, “The first responsibility of leadership is to lead yourself well.” Leadership isn’t just about being in charge and giving orders. It’s about being responsible for others and carrying yourself in such a way that others will want to follow. Jesus said this: “From everyone …
“So be careful how you make sense of your life. What looks like disaster may in fact be grace. What looks like the end may be the beginning. What looks hopeless may be God’s instrument to give you real and lasting hope. Your Father is committed to taking what seems so bad and turning it …