Charles Stanley
The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.Collection: Inspirational Life
Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.Collection: Prayer
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.Collection: Spiritual
From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period.Collection: Christian
When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.Collection: Christian
Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.Collection: Mean
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.Collection: Long
You always have God's undivided attention.Collection: Attention
Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.Collection: Disappointment
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.Collection: Spiritual
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.Collection: Prayer
We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.Collection: Limits
Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.Collection: Attitude
We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.Collection: Forgiveness
If you have an anxiety lay it down before The LordCollection: Anxiety
If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.Collection: Dream
You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.Collection: Sacrifice
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.Collection: Wisdom
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.Collection: Optimistic
God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.Collection: Attitude
When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.Collection: Forgiveness
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.Collection: Substance
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.Collection: Wisdom
No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.Collection: Strength
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.Collection: Commitment
The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.Collection: Jesus
Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.Collection: Accountability
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.Collection: Average
You will never go wrong obeying God.Collection: Obeying God
God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.Collection: Responsibility
God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.Collection: Christian
Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.Collection: Spiritual
The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.Collection: Struggle
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.Collection: Christian
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.Collection: Christian
Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.Collection: Believe
God blesses us so that we might bless others!Collection: Might
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.Collection: Spiritual
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.Collection: Goal
God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."Collection: God
Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.Collection: Jesus
Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.Collection: Jesus
If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say 'yes' to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience.Collection: Teaching
Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.Collection: Prayer
As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.Collection: Children
Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.Collection: Running
Although the church accomplishes many tasks, its only message to the world is the gospel of Christ. Everything else we do is merely an extension of that primary goal. The gospel we offer the lost is superior to every worldly philosophy. Never outdated or in need of correction, it is always sufficient to meet humanity's greatest need: reconciliation with the Creator.Collection: Philosophy
Jesus is our Advocate before God.Collection: Jesus
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.Collection: Jesus