James MacDonald
Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.Collection: Trust
Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!Collection: Opportunity
When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.Collection: Mean
The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.Collection: Obstacles
When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.Collection: Letting Go
Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.Collection: Heart
Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.Collection: Understanding
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.Collection: God
When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.Collection: Gratitude
When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.Collection: Trusting Him
God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.Collection: Past
You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area.Collection: Jesus
What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.Collection: Determine
When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.Collection: Hands
If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.Collection: Way
If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.Collection: Use
Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.Collection: Letting Go
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.Collection: Prayer
Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.Collection: People
Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.Collection: Waiting
While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.Collection: Waiting
Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.Collection: Doubt
While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.Collection: Doors
It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.Collection: Matter
The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.Collection: Christian
I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.Collection: Heart
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.Collection: Begging
These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died he would be in heaven with him. The other man rejected Jesus and closed his heart. Unlike the first criminal, when he died he didn't go to heaven. He went to hell. In that sense, these two men on either side of Jesus are just like every person. We either embrace Christ as our Savior and spend eternity with him, or we reject him and say, 'I don't believe it. I'll have nothing to do with.' And these people spend eternity separated from him.Collection: Friday
I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.Collection: Contentment
Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.Collection: Contradiction
The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.Collection: Humanity
I will not fail: God is always victorious.Collection: Failing
You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.Collection: Odds
Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.Collection: Humility
Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.Collection: Keys
Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.Collection: Jesus
God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.Collection: Life Is Hard
God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.Collection: Want
[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.Collection: Son
You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.Collection: Children
When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.Collection: Humble
I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.Collection: Mean
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.Collection: Desire
Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.Collection: Letting Go
Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.Collection: Humility
Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?Collection: Fire
Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?Collection: Knowing
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.Collection: Long
All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate description of what he believes currently. Now his ministry will have to bear that out. I'm not here to defend him or stick up for his various errors. And I don't want to minimize error that is significant. All I'm saying is that he, as of two weeks ago, would not accept those terms, in private conversation, as accurate descriptors of what he believes.Collection: Believe