Thoughts culled from my random file, gathered from my Twitter tweets, Facebook updates and Instagrams. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in Christ. Some have come to me in moments of quiet reflection, some in interaction with others. Offered as “jump starts” for your faith.
- The good news of the gospel is that King Jesus the Messiah, whom God has raised from the dead, is Lord of all. Follow him.
- Intimate relationship with God is the seedbed for every pure desire.
- Jesus said that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If you want to know what is in your heart, stop and listen to your mouth.
- Sometimes the breakthrough we need the most is the breaking of our hearts.
- We change the world by surrendering to the passion of God.
- We are as close to God as we are ever going to be. In him, we live and move and have our being. We just do not yet realize how close that really is.
- We do not truly understand the meaning of a thing until we find Christ within it.
- A prayer for writers: Lord, give me grace today to write what is true. Amen.
- I am always in need of the mercy of God ... especially when I think I am doing alright.
- The revelation of Jesus Christ transforms us. We become what we behold.
- Today I silence all the voices that speak out against me. The blood of King Jesus declares much better things over me.
- Today I am living out of the new creation and ignoring the remnant echoes of the old.
- Give up the vain struggle to overcome sin. It has already been overcome by Jesus the Messiah. Dwell on him.
- Lord, fill me with the desire for You. Fill me with a desire for the things You desire. Then fill all those desires. Amen.
- Repentance is turning to God, away from dependence on everything that isn’t God. Everyday is a good day to repent and learn to trust God more.
- Christ is best revealed in us not by our perfections but by our helplessness.
- Christ fully embraces my brokenness and heals me with his love.
- The whole world is a sacrament that everywhere presents us with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- Lord, let me be emptied of everything but You, that I may be truly filled. Amen.
- The change we really need does not come from psychological techniques or spiritual disciplines but by the gracious work of the Holy Spirit.
- How blessed it is to realize our helplessness, for then we can hope in God and trust His love.
- How blessed it is to acknowledge our sin, for then we can hope in God and trust His forgiveness.
- When we choose to forgive, we are allowing God to love another through us.
- Forgiveness is choosing to trust that, whatever wrong we may have suffered by another, God will make us whole. It begins with the words, “I forgive,” and continues as often as the need arises in our heart.
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