If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.