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I Can Honestly Tell You That Without God I Would Not Be Who I Am Today. He Has Done Such An Amazing Work In My Life And I Want Everyone To Have The Same Freedom.

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I Can Honestly Tell You That Without God I Would Not Be Who I Am Today. He Has Done Such An Amazing Work In My Life And I Want Everyone To Have The Same Freedom.

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If God Is In Fact Separated From The Government, Then We Can Never Possibly Have A Godly Government. There's No Way For America To Be Good If She's Not Godly.

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Trust Means We Always Have Questions That We Don't Have The Answers To.

I Was Mentally, Emotionally And Verbally Abused By My Father As Far Back As I Can Remember Until I Left Home At The Age Of Eighteen

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Deadly Emotions, Buried Alive, Never Die.

I Am Radically, Insanely, Nutty In Love With Jesus!

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When We Believe The Best Of People, We Let Go Of Each Thing They Do That Is Hurtful To Us. And We Choose To Think Things Like, 'i Don't Believe They Meant To Hurt Me.' 'maybe They're Having A Bad Day Or Don't Feel Well.' 'they Probably Don't Even Realize How They Sound.'

A Positive Attitude Gives You Power Over Your Circumstances Instead Of Your Circumstances Having Power Over You.

If You Want To Become Fully Mature In The Lord, You Must Learn To Love Truth. Otherwise, You Will Always Leave Open A Door Of Deception For The Enemy To Take What Is Meant To Be Yours.

The Bible Has The Answers To Our Everyday Life. Many Times People Don't Realize How Practical It Is.

Many People Feel So Pressured By The Expectations Of Others That It Causes Them To Be Frustrated, Miserable And Confused About What They Should Do. But There Is A Way To Live A Simple, Joy-filled, Peaceful Life, And The Key Is Learning How To Be Led By The Holy Spirit, Not The Traditions Or Expectations Of Man.

A Demonstration Of Sincere Concern Can Be A Strong Building Block Of Love.

Not Everyone Loves Me, But I Have To Be Okay No Matter What They Think About Me.

Keep Walking The Walk, One Step At A Time.

One Step At A Time

Sometimes When You've Had A Long Series Of Disappointing Things Happen, You Can Get Into The Very Bad Habit Of Just Expecting More Of What You've Already Had.

Don't Complain. The Israelites Wasted Forty Years Murmuring And Complaining In The Wilderness, When They Could Have Just Obeyed God And Entered Into Their Promised Land.

Any Day That We Don't Give Up Puts Us One Day Closer To Success!

When You Need To Make A Decision, Don't Let Your Emotions Vote.

As We Regularly Spend Time Reading God's Word And Talking To Him In Prayer, We Put Ourselves In Position For Him To Do Things In Our Lives We Could Never Do On Our Own.

Keep Your Mind Going In The Right Direction, And Your Life Will Catch Up With It.

Right Direction

The Eagle Has No Fear Of Adversity. We Need To Be Like The Eagle And Have A Fearless Spirit Of A Conqueror!

Humility May Well Be One Of The Most Difficult Of The Fruit Of The Spirit To Be Cultivated In Us - And To Maintain. That's Because Without Humility, It's Not Likely That You Will Put Your Complete Trust In God.

Fruits Of The Spirit

Don’t Waste Another Day Of Your Life Grieving Over Something That You Cannot Do Anything About. Let God Give You A New Beginning. Your Mistakes Are Not Enough To Stop God If You Don’t Let Them.

The Biggest Black Eye That You Can Give The Devil Is To Give God Your Pain And Let Him Turn It Into Gain.

You Can Have Jesus In Your Spirit And Have An Outrageous Mess In Your Soul, And If You Don't Know What That's Called, It's Called Religion.

We May Not Know What To Do, But It Is Sufficient To Know The One Who Knows. We All Like Specific Direction; However, When We Don't Have It, Knowing God Is Faithful And Ever True To His Promise, And That He Has Promised To Be With Us Always, Is Comforting And Keeps Us Stable Until His Time Is Right To Speak To Us More Specifically.

Don't Waste Your Time Being Upset About Something You Can't Change. Begin Again And Do It Better This Time.

Courage Is Fear That Has Said Its Prayers And Decided To Go Forward Anyway.

Make Happiness A Habit. Be So Happy You Drive The Devil Stark-raving Mad.

I Didn't Really Understand The Importance Of Little Things. I Didn't Really Understand That It Was The Little Foxes That Spoil The Vine. And If We're Not Faithful In Little Things, That God Will Never Be Able To Make Us Ruler Over Great Things.

If We Do Our Best, God Will Do The Rest.

I Wonder How Many Times People Give Up Just Before A Breakthrough - When They Are On The Very Brink Of Success.

Don't Live Like There's No Tomorrow Because Tomorrow Always Comes.

Serving God Doesn’t Mean We’ll No Longer Have Difficulties. We’re Still On The Battlefield, But We Don’t Have To Fight Alone.

Your Soul Is Your Mind, Your Will And Your Emotions. When The Word Gets Rooted In There And Begins To Change Your Mind, It Begins To Heal Your Emotions And Turn Your Will Away From Self-will And Onto Doing The Will Of God.

There Is No Danger Of Developing Eyestrain From Looking At The Bright Side Of Things.

The Bible Says That Christians Are The Salt Of The Earth And The Light Of The World. On The Job, In The Grocery Store, Even Among Unsaved Friends And Family Members, God's People Are There To Bring Seasoning To An Unsavory Situation.

The Absence Of Pain Means Death, So When Something No Longer Bothers You, You've Died To That Thing.

We Should Choose Our Thoughts Carefully. We Can Think About What Is Wrong With Our Lives Or About What Is Right With Them.

There Are Many Things That Happen Every Day That We Could Murmur About If We Let Ourselves Go There. But They Really Aren't Worth The Effort It Takes To Get Upset And Gripe About It.

Here’s One Of My Favorite Statements: We Are Never Going To Enjoy Stability, We Are Never Going To Enjoy Spiritual Maturity Until We Learn How To Do What’s Right When It Feels Wrong, And Every Time You Do What’s Right By A Decision Of Your Will Using Discipline And Self Control To Go Beyond How You Feel, The More Painful It Is In Your Flesh, The More You’re Growing Spiritually At That Particular Moment.

Wow! You Might Actually Have To Act Like A Christian Sometimes!

You Can't Fulfill All The Expectations Of Everyone You Know, So You Might As Well Go Ahead & Disappoint Them & Get It Over With.

I Got Kicked Out Of My Church And Lost All Of My Friends, But I Realized That I Had To Obey God And Not Man.

A Truly Humble Person Knows That They Are Nothing In Themselves But They Are Everything In Christ.

We Don’t Need Self-confidence We Need God-confidence

Now Whether You Like It Or Not, Whether You Want To Admit It Or Not, Whether You Want To Operate On It Or Not, You Are Made The Righteousness Of God In Jesus Christ. Most People Who Go To Denominational Churches Never Ever Hear That! They Never Hear It! Never! All I Was Ever Taught To Say Was, 'i'm A Poor, Miserable Sinner.' I Am Not Poor, I Am Not Miserable And I Am Not A Sinner. That Is A Lie From The Pit Of Hell. That Is What I Was And If I Still Am Then Jesus Died In Vain. Amen?

Choosing An Attitude Of Faith Will Release Peace Out Of Your Spirit And Into Your Soul.

No Matter How Much We Know In Any Area There Are Always New Things To Learn And Things We Have Previously Learned That We Need To Be Refreshed In.

I'm Amazed Sometimes By The Christians Who Don't Really Believe That God Wants To Help Them And Bless Them.

Either We Will Spend Our Lives Trying To Take Care Of Ourselves Or We Will Let Go And Let God Take Care Of Us As We Put Our Faith And Trust In Him.

The Purpose Of Faith Isn't Always To Keep Us From Having Trouble. It Is Often To Carry Us Through Trouble. If We Never Had Any Trouble, We Wouldn't Need Any Faith.

Yes, God Does Expect Us To Live Holy, Consecrated Lives. But Not Even The Best Of Our Intentions Can Make It Happen. Thankfully, He Doesn't Expect Us To Make Ourselves Holy. He Just Wants Us To Learn To Depend On Him To Make Us Holy.

Don’t Feel Like You Have To Take Every Suggestion People Give You. Not Every Good Idea Is A God Idea.

Acts 10:38 Says, “see How God Anointed Jesus Of Nazareth Who Went About Doing Good.” He Just Got Up Every Day And Did Good. Everywhere He Went, Even Though He Had A Purpose And He Was Headed Somewhere, He Let Himself Be Interrupted By The Needs Of People. So Often We Study The Steps Of Jesus. Maybe We Need To Study The Stops Of Jesus. The Things That He Stopped For, The Things That Interrupted His Plan, Where He Would Alter His Plan And Help Somebody Here And There.

I Think A Lot Of People Believe That They Have To Be Poor To Serve God, That They Can't Have Anything. They Don't Really Even Know How To Give. And One Of The Main Principles In The Bible Is You'll Reap What You Sew, And That If You Give Into The Lives Of Others, That It Shall Be Given Back To You, Good Measure, Pressed Down And Shaken Together. If You Go Plant One Tomato Seed, You Don't Get Back One Tomato; You Get A Vine Of Tomatoes.

The One Thing Everybody's Looking For Is Unconditional Love. We All Need Somebody To Love Us Just The Way We Are

The Devil Is No Longer Looking For An Open Door In Your Life. He Will Take Any Crack You Give Him.

When You Pray Be Sure That You Listen As Well As Talk. You Have Things You Want To Say To God But He Also Has Things He Wants To Say To You.

Grace Is The Power Of The Holy Spirit Coming To Us Free Of Charge To Enable You To Do With Ease What You Could Never Do On Your Own With Any Amount Of Struggle And Effort.

God Doesn't Help Those Who Help Themselves; He Helps Those Who Can't Help Themselves!

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Change Is Always Tough. Even For Those Who See Themselves As Agents Of Change, The Process Of Starting A New Thing Can Cause Times Of Disorientation, Uncertainty And Insecurity.

The Right Timing Is Not Always Our Timing.

Teenagers Are People Too!

God Will Never Help Us Be Anyone Other Than Ourselves.

Battles Are Fought In Our Minds Every Day. When We Begin To Feel The Battle Is Just Too Difficult And Want To Give Up, We Must Choose To Resist Negative Thoughts And Be Determined To Rise Above Our Problems. We Must Decide That We're Not Going To Quit. When We're Bombarded With Doubts And Fears, We Must Take A Stand And Say: "i'll Never Give Up! God's On My Side. He Loves Me, And He's Helping Me! I'm Going To Make It!"

If We Know God Is For Us, Then It Shouldn't Matter How We Feel, Or What Other People Think Of Us.

Humility Is Not Something That Comes Naturally. But It Is A Cardinal Virtue That Should Be Pursued More Than Any Other.

Treat Everyone You Meet As If They Have Infinite Value Because In God’s Eyes They Do

Some Christians Feel Guilty When They Are Doing Something That Isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow Or Another, They Feel The Need To Hurry Through The Grocery Store, Dash Through The House Cleaning, And Rush Through All The Daily Aspects Of Life That Seem Irrelevant To Their Faith.

We Need A Backbone, Not A Wishbone.

Faith Is Powerful Spiritual Dynamic, And It Is Something God Responds To And Blesses.

I Always Asked For Forgiveness For My Sins Right Away But I Never Accepted It Until I Felt Right That I Had Suffered Enough To Pay For It. God Revealed To Me What I Was Doing How Much Unnecessary Pain I Was Causing Myself. He Even Showed Me That What I Was Doing Was An Insult To Jesus That In Essence I Was Saying Lord The Sacrifice Of Your Life And Blood Was Good But Not Good Enough. I Must Add My Work Of Feeling Guilty Before I Can Be Forgiven.

It's So Important To Realize That Every Time You Get Upset, It Drains Your Emotional Energy. Losing Your Cool Makes You Tired. Getting Angry A Lot Messes With Your Health.

If You're Strong Enough On The Inside, You Can Handle Anything That Comes At You On The Outside.

Attitude Is Your Thought Life Turned Inside Out

Thoughts On Life

Grace Equals Ability. God Gives Us Grace To Match Our Call. When We Do Our Own Thing, We Do It On Our Own. When We Follow His Leading, He Always Supplies The Grace And The Energy To Do What He's Calling Us To Do.

If You Can Help A Child, You Don't Have To Spend Years Repairing An Adult.

God Has Uniquely Gifted You To Help Someone. Be Available As God Opens Doors For You To Do So.

As You Pray For The Holy Spirit To Make You Aware Of Thoughts That Come Into Your Mind That Don't Line Up With God's Word, You'll Begin To Realize When Those Thoughts Come And You Can Renew Your Mind With The Word.

The Bible Says To 'fear Not,' But This Doesn't Mean You Should Never Feel Scared. It Means When You Do Feel Fear, Keep Going Forward And Do What You Are Supposed To Do. Or As I Like To Say, Do It Afraid.

I Am Not Promising That God Will Give You Everything You Want. There Are Times When We Want Things That God Knows Would Not Be Good For Us.

If You Want To Be Unhappy, Uncomfortable, And Insecure, Just Spend Your Life Trying To Do Something That Is Not Right For You. It Is Just Like Trying To Wear Shoes That Don't Fit.

Stop Labeling People Just Because They're Not Like You.

Your Worst Day With God Is Still Better Than Your Best Day Without Him.

To Know And Experience What God Can Do, We Must First Realize And Acknowledge What We Cannot Do. We Must Get Our Eyes Off Of Ourselves And Our Limited Ability, And Totally Onto Him And His Infinite Power.

God Forgives Us And Remembers Our Sin No More; Therefore, Stop Remembering What God Has Forgotten.

The Israelites' Slavery In Egypt Is The Equivalent Of Our Slavery To Sin. God Sent Moses To Deliver Them From Bondage, And He Sent Jesus Christ To Set Us Free.

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Your Joy Comes From How You Think, The Choices That We Make In Life.

Peter Was The Only One Who Walked On Water Besides Jesus, But He Was Also The Only One Who Got Out Of The Boat. Until You Make A Decision To Believe, And Then Act On It, Nothing Will Happen.

Today Is A Brand New Beginning For Me!

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