The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.

He empowers us to be what he calls us to be.

You can. With God's help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be.

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 4:11).When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Never let me forget that although without you I can do nothing, in Christ I can do all things.

As long as Peter focused on the face of Christ, he did the impossible.

Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power (dig deeper). Joseph's story points elsewhere (look higher).

We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive?

him" (Deut. 11:2 TEV). Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it. God is at work in each of us whether

You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.

The star Betelgeuse has a diameter of 100 million miles, which is larger than the earth's orbit around the sun.4 Why the immensity? Why such vast, unmeasured, unexplored, "unused" space? So that you and I, freshly stunned, could be stirred by this resolve: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Phil. 4:13 NKJV).