You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
Put your expectations on God, not on people.
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
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Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.
Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.
I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.
God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.
You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.
Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car
Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.
Have God make a message out of your mess.
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.
Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.
An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.
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It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
Don't let your feelings be a God to you.
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.
Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!
Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.
Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.
You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both
Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.
Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.
Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.
There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.
Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.
Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.
Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.
Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.
I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.
Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.
Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.
We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.
There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.
Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.
Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.
Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.
There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!
The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.
Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.
We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence
The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.
Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.
Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.
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You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)
No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.
Seek His face and not His hand.
God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.
It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.
The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!
Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.
There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.
We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
Unity increases power.
Where the mind goes the man follows.
Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.
1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.
Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!
If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.
God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.
Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!
All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.
