Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.

Life is bringing me everything I need and MORE!

In the preaching of the kingdom, law and gospel come together. The coming of the kingdom is the coming of a King to enforce his law on a disobedient world, that is, to enforce his covenant against covenant-breakers. But the King who comes is full of love and forgiveness. So his coming is good news, gospel, not only because he judges the wicked, but because he brings redemption, forgiveness, and reward to his redeemed people.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

The absolute gut-level truth was that he had no desire for God to interrupt him in this way.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

There can be no progress in Divine things until there is the personal recognition that God is Supreme, that He is to be feared and revered, that He is to be owned and served as Lord.