Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

The only wounds that define us are the wounds of Jesus Christ.

Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

There's something that's not right or not perfect or not the way we had hoped or dreamed that it was going to be. But God promises that He will use everything and every moment to ultimately take us to a new Heaven and a new Earth. For now, we're stuck in the middle.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.