Warren W. Wiersbe
If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.Collection: Christian
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.Collection: Christian
If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.Collection: Looks
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.Collection: Change
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.Collection: God
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.Collection: Life
In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.Collection: Spiritual
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted againCollection: Hurt
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.Collection: Christian
God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.Collection: Happy
You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.Collection: Christian
You are a Christian because somebody cared. Now it's your turn.Collection: Christian
We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.Collection: Heart
The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.Collection: Christian
People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.Collection: Christian
We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.Collection: Mistake
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.Collection: Crush
People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.Collection: Roots
No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.Collection: Promise
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.Collection: Mistake
The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.Collection: Christian
The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessingsCollection: Christian
The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.Collection: Christian
The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.Collection: Believe
Never underestimate the importance of simply being physically present in the place God wants you. You may not be asked to perform some dramatic ministry, but simply being there is a ministry.Collection: Ministry
Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.Collection: Christmas
Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.Collection: Jesus
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.Collection: Fire
The bumps are what you climb on.Collection: Christian
A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.Collection: Wall
It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.Collection: Christian
Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration.Collection: Hands
God is more interested in the workman than in the work.Collection: Workmen
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.Collection: Mirrors
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.Collection: Jesus
Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.Collection: Faith
Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.Collection: Victory
Bumps are the things we climb on.Collection: Bumps
Faithfulness in the small things will lead to blessing in the big things.Collection: Blessing
If the Lord calls you, He will equip you for the task He wants you to fulfillCollection: Christian
Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a timeCollection: Christian
God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.Collection: Humility
The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.Collection: School
Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.Collection: Wise
Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.Collection: Worship Music
Outlook determines outcome.Collection: Outcomes
If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.Collection: Victory
If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.Collection: Forgiveness
Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory.Collection: Christian