Mike Hyatt, and the Thomas

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith and your fears will.

Hope doesn't promise an instant solution but rather the possibility of an eventual one. Sometimes all we need is a little hope.

Contingent faith is the faith of sidewalk chalk: it's beautiful when the sun shines, but washes away when the rain falls.

To change the way a person responds to life, change what a person believes about life. The most important thing about you is your belief system

In the great trapeze act of salvation, God is the catcher, and we are the flyers. We trust. Period.

faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and he will get us through it. Our

How is your eyesight? Are you able to see beyond your problems to the goodness and love beyond? This is where God lives—behind the scenes, at work, arranging your troubles of today into a brighter tomorrow.

What intentional changes can you make in your daily schedule to ensure that God's character is at the forefront of your mind? How would your demeanor change if you would "dare to believe that good things will happen"?

This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees.

Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we've never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the presence of a problem as the absence of God and scoot!

When you are wondering what to do with your worst nightmare, you have to choose. Faith or fear, God's purpose or random history, a God who knows and cares or a God who isn't there? We all choose. Choose to trust God's promises. Choose to believe that God is up to something good even though all you see looks bad. Choose to believe because God is faithful.