God guides us, despite our uncertainties and our vagueness, even through our failings and mistakes…. He leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come … do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, […]
When we stand in the middle of a lifestorm, it seems as if the storm has become our way of life. We cannot see a way out. We are unable to chart a course back to smoother waters. We feel defeated–and broken. Will that brokenness produce a cynicism that will
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Time doesn’t heal wounds; it only watches them take different shapes and forms until they look so different that where they came from is often obscured. The real capacity to heal inner wounds comes from heaven, not earth. Only the power of Jesus can go to the deep places and
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To overcome a difficulty in your life: believe in the character of God . . . He is good; believe in the power of God . . . He will bring you through; believe in the love of God . . . He cares for you deeply and He will
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If God wants you to do something, he’ll make it possible for you to do it, but the grace he provides comes only with the task and cannot be stockpiled beforehand. We are dependent on him from hour to hour, and the greater our awareness of this fact, the less
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Prayer is neither official nor formal nor ceremonial, but direct, hearty, intense. Prayer is the helpless and needy child crying to the compassion of the Father’s heart and the bounty and power of the Father’s hand. The answer is sure to come as the Father’s heart can be touched and
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When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw them into prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no
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Whatever it is that bears you down, the consciousness of sin, the terror of judgment, distressing doubts or manifold temptations, whatever else may torment your soul and weigh down your spirit, this invitation is for you. If you are burdened with affliction or sorrow or fearful apprehension, in short (to
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit? ~ John Owen
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“We think we must climb to a certain height of goodness before we can reach God. But… if we are in a hole the Way begins in the hole. The moment we set our face in the same direction as His, we are walking with God.” ~ Helen Wodehouse
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