Lysa TerKeurst
It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.Collection: Perfect
There is power in simply speaking the name Jesus.Collection: Jesus
God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.Collection: Feel Good
The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.Collection: Use
Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.Collection: Identity
How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak.Collection: Issues
Most of us spend years chasing things in this world that we think will make us feel loved. But everything this world has to offer is temporary. Everything. The kind of love our souls crave is lasting, eternal. And only God can fill up our hearts with that kind of love.Collection: Heart
God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.Collection: People
Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.Collection: Inspirational
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?Collection: Powerful
The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.Collection: Peaceful
Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.Collection: Love Is
The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn't just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.Collection: Decisions We Make
Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.Collection: Thankful
Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.Collection: Stress
Trusting God's plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.Collection: Art
God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.Collection: Character
Getting healthy isn't just about losing weight. It's not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It's about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change - spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.Collection: Healthy
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.Collection: Love
The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.Collection: Religious
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.Collection: Beautiful
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.Collection: Wise
Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.Collection: Frustration
Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.Collection: Letting Go
The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It’s a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don’t choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don’t want to be later.Collection: Decisions You Make
God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.Collection: Hurt
When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.Collection: Feelings
I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it.Collection: Giving
Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me.Collection: Perspective
Person who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul. So if we want to live better and invest wisely in our souls, we've got to change our approach to the way we make decisions. We've got to rethink how we use the two most powerful words, yes and no.Collection: Powerful
Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.Collection: Relationship
We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.Collection: Attitude
I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.Collection: People
Humility opens the door of opportunity.Collection: Humility
We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won’t ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.Collection: Giving Up
If you give your mess to the Messiah, He can turn it into a message.Collection: Giving
It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be empty enough and open enough to discover the holiness we were made for. When we are stuffed full of other things and never allow ourselves to be in a place of longing, we don't recognize the deeper spiritual battle going on.Collection: Spiritual
Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.Collection: Jobs
Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have.Collection: Blessed
Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.Collection: Demand
God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.Collection: Praise
Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.Collection: Regret
As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.Collection: God
We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on GodCollection: Mind
Being married is amazing. Being married is incredibly difficult. Being married can seem impossibly hard. Being married is incredibly beautiful. Yes, marriage is a fragile blend of all of this and more.Collection: Beautiful
So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.Collection: Jesus
Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.Collection: Struggle