Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

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Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.