Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.Collection: Shadow
Authentic faith cannot help but act.Collection: Helping
What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make it all the way through? It is a lie from the pit of hell. Today, claim your healing in Christ. It is your right as His child.Collection: Children
...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.Collection: Tired
When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.Collection: Who We Are
Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.Collection: Sometimes
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.Collection: Dignity
Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.Collection: Thrones
If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.Collection: Adventure
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.Collection: Men
Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little.Collection: Insecurity
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.Collection: Teaching
He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.Collection: Joy
When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.Collection: Spiritual
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.Collection: Character
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.Collection: Angel
Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?Collection: Stupid
You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.Collection: Destiny
Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.Collection: Appreciate
Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].Collection: Praise
The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.Collection: Hurt
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37Collection: Careless Words
A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.Collection: Christian
some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.Collection: Past
When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.Collection: Needs
Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.Collection: Pain
A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied.Collection: Heart
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.Collection: Journey
Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.Collection: Order
Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.Collection: Song
Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.Collection: Art
God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right.Collection: Heart
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.Collection: Kind
Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.Collection: Smart
To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.Collection: Children
Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wiseCollection: Christian
I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.Collection: Who I Am
Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.Collection: Christian
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?Collection: Insecurity
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.Collection: Guilt
For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.Collection: Writing
Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.Collection: Ministry
If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.Collection: Exercise
Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.Collection: Eye
Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.Collection: Important
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.Collection: Pits
A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.Collection: Jesus
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.Collection: Hurt
When the stakes are high, bow down low.Collection: Bows