You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

You have the same power, faith, and courage available to you through Christ. Don't forget, just like David, you are a giant-slayer.

Fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is

As Elijah's mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9—11).

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.

The most important endeavors require a risk," I tell her. It's the hardest piece of reality to accept. Striking off into the unknown is terrifying, but if we don't begin the journey, we'll never know where it could lead.

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.

I desire to live my life this way,... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence. Help me find the way.

The most important endeavors require a risk.