WHEN SOME BASIC NEED IS LACKING—time, energy, money—consider yourself blessed. Your very lack is an opportunity to latch onto Me in unashamed dependence. When you begin a day with inadequate resources, you must concentrate your efforts on the present moment. This is where you are meant to live—in the present;

Hand Me your anxiety, and fall back into My strong arms with a sigh of trust.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. —PROVERBS 3:5

Be prepared to let go of anything I take from you, but never let go of My hand!

O my Lord and Savior, in Your arms I am safe. Keep me and I have nothing to fear. . . . I know nothing about the future, but I rely upon You. I pray that You would give me what is good for me.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made the dizzying complexities of it all perfectly coherent.

On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.

The great evangelist Dwight Moody once said, "When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down."