Quotes about Renewal

Don't dismiss the idea of a comeback if you're someone who is already saved and walking faithfully with the Lord. You may need a fresh start after you find that your dreams—holy dreams—have crashed into pieces at your feet.

Whatever you need to come back from, I want you to hear this: if Jesus is alive from the dead—and he is—and if Jesus has conquered death and hell—and he has—then it's possible for every person to have a comeback story.

We'll never be able to do what God purposes unless we let God take away all the facades and rip off all the layers of gunk surrounding our hearts. We need God's power to start working at the base.

God starts with who we've become, and then he works his way to how we live.

Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)

Whatever you give shelter and sustenance to in your mind is ultimately what will grow in your garden. You're going to reap what you sow. The way you renew your mind is to wrap your thoughts around Scripture. You can take control of what you think about. You deliberately plant the good seeds/thoughts of God in your mind. As these thoughts take root and grow, they will help remove the destructive weeds that the Enemy tries to plant in your mind.

God, help me take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Mistakes and sins and imperfections were never meant to be bottled up. We need to shed those feelings of impending doom at the foot of the cross.

Jesus never focused on the failure. He focused on the restoration.

Sin is what was done to you, or sometimes it's what you did, but sin is not who you are.

Sabbath happens anywhere and everywhere we let go of the controls and lay the cares of our lives at His feet.

Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.