Charles Stanley
When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.
We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.Collection: Trials
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.Collection: Distance
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedienceCollection: Obedience
Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.Collection: Faith
From the world’s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God.Collection: Heart
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.Collection: Mean
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.Collection: Disappointment
If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.Collection: Details
God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.Collection: Promise
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.Collection: Christian
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.Collection: Adversity
Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.Collection: Christian
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.Collection: Wise
Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.Collection: Obeying God
When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.Collection: Christian
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.Collection: Perspective
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.Collection: Waiting
Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.Collection: Fighting
Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?Collection: God
Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.Collection: Attitude
In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.Collection: Victory
We are the product of our thinking, so it is important that we choose carefully where to focus our mental energy.Collection: Thinking
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."Collection: Prayer
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.Collection: Disappointment
To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.Collection: Two
God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.Collection: Prayer
God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.Collection: Faith
Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.Collection: Waiting
Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.Collection: Requirements
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.Collection: Pain
The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?Collection: Christian
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.Collection: Jesus
No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.Collection: Perfect