“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”
“There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.”
“Leave it all in the hands that were wounded for you.”
“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”
“The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be.”
“God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.”
“A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.”
“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business.”
“Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling – feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den or hanging on a wooden cross.”
“The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.”
“God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.”
“Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your savior, your guide?”
“If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.”
“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him.”
“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
“I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
“I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”
“God never withholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful — ‘severe mercies’ at times but mercies all the same.”
“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”
“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.”
“Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today?”
“How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly small act of obedience!”
“Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.”
“God’s refusals are always merciful — ‘severe mercies’ at times but mercies all the same.”
Thank You Very Much.
