Quotes about Trust

When things are going wrong, praise Him anyway! Thank Him in advance for the good He will surely bring from all situations (Romans 8:28).

If this now broken relationship was Your best, You wouldn't have kept me from it. And if it is Your best sometime in the future, the enemy won't be able to keep us apart.

Sometimes hardship happens not because of what you've done but because of something God is doing.

Instead of looking at life with the hope of receiving love, I started expecting rejection.

Honesty isn't trying to hurt me. It's trying to heal me.

May your ordinary be invaded with His extraordinary invitation to press through the famine phase and to live life His way!

simple but very profound truth, "How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?

Some church-raised young adults experience similar self-doubt when it comes to making spiritual judgments. Instead of equipping them to make thoughtful, prayerful decisions and then to trust God for the outcome, the church has instilled a debilitating fear of sin or "stepping out of God's will." How can we expect the next generation to move forward with confidence into God's future when they are scared of making a misstep?1

An interesting fact about the Garden of Gethsemane is that it sits at the base of a known escape route from the city over the Mount of Olives toward the Judean desert. This is the route David took when running from his son Absalom. Jesus would have known this. But instead of running, He turned to His Father and said nine hell-shattering, demon-shaking, Devil-killing words: "Yet not what I will, but what you will" (Mark 14:36).

Operating in the flow of God's power is so much better than working against the flow of God's power.

My job is to be obedient to God, to apply His Word, and to walk according to His ways — not according to the world's suggestions.

no matter how well I plan things, I can't control them. No matter how well I think I know the people in my life, I can't control them. No matter how well I follow the rules, do what's right, and seek to obey God with my whole heart, I can't control my life. I can't control God.