We can go to Bible study and amen every point made, but if we don't apply it to our lives, we won't be changed.

When you feed negativity on the inside, it's negativity that you'll exude on the outside.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart. Sometimes

God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you.

Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

Too many of us live with an uncontrolled thought life. It is possible to learn to identify destructive thoughts and make wiser choices. Instead of letting those thoughts rumble freely about in my mind, I make the choice to harness them and direct them toward truth.

when my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing.

The Devil wants me to fill my emptiness with an unhealthy dependence on the acceptance of others. Because then he can get me so focused on the shallow opinions of others I get completely distracted from deepening my relationship with Christ.

God is who He says He is, and He will do what He says He will do. But to partner with Him in His work of transformation in our lives, we must seek Him with all our hearts. It's our choice whether we stay stuck in our hurt or get renewed in our hearts.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.

People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.

when you and I roll around in thoughts that stink, it affects the atmosphere everywhere we go.