How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

The word of the Lord is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.

We think we know what we want. In reality we should want nothing else but to be completely in line with His desires for us and His purposes in our generation. So we must resolve to let God be God on His terms, not ours.

He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.

Sometimes the divine intervention of God means breaking allegiance with what you love.

A favorite verse of Scripture says it best and most succinctly : Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). This doesn't mean that He's necessarily giving you what you want, but rather that He is in the process of transforming your soul to desire what He wants.

One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

a Christian mind demands conscious negation; a Christian mind is impossible without the discipline of refusal.

The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

Repentance (Greek, metanoia) means change of mind. So as we get to know God, we get to know ourselves.

Your identity doesn't come from your address.

We determine how much we will allow something to make us unhappy. That we can determine our emotional response to events is hard for many people to acknowledge. Most people think that events make them unhappy, that their happiness level is essentially dictated by what happens to them. But this is untrue.