The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.

In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.