We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.