Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

PRAYER THOUGHT: Through Your mercy and grace, Lord, I truly and completely yield myself to You.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS GIVEN, NOT EARNED; RECEIVED, NOT TAKEN.

You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person—the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

Condemnation comes from guilt. Conviction is born out of grace. Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin. Conviction urges you to confess it. Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did). Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way). Condemnation prompts you to rededicate. Conviction demands full surrender. Condemnation is a path to future failure. Conviction is a highway to real change.