God Speaks to the Quiet Heart
The good news is God will hear and He will help. The bad news is this: If you wait for someone else to bring about a change, things will only deteriorate.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
The good news is God will hear and He will help. The bad news is this: If you wait for someone else to bring about a change, things will only deteriorate.
Someone who is truly unselfish is generous with his or her time and possessions, energy and money. As that works its way out, it is demonstrated in various ways, such as thoughtfulness and gentleness, an unpretentious spirit, and servant-hearted leadership.
It takes time to cultivate a walk with the Lord that begins to flow naturally because the enemy is so much more assertive and powerful than we...and so creative, so full of new ideas on how to derail us and demoralize us.
Instead of always thinking about receiving, we'll start looking for ways to give. Instead of holding grudges against those who offend us, we'll be anxious to forgive.
Under heaven's lock and key, we are protected by the most efficient security system available—the power of God.
David didn't seek success; he simply humbled himself under the mighty hand of God, staying close to the Lord and submitting himself to Him.
He must be able to create rather than invent, to direct rather than wish, to control rather than hope, to guide rather than guess, to fulfil rather than dream.
To quit, to run, to escape, to hide—none of these options solve anything. They only postpone the acceptance of, and reckoning with, reality.
We are to talk of spiritual things in our homes just as we would talk about anything else.
When it comes to walking with God, there is no such thing as instant maturity. God doesn't mass-produce His saints. He hand-tools each one, and it always takes longer than we expected.