"When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him."
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"Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ."
"It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says."
"Don't let your feelings be a God to you."
"When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts."
"Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL"
"Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children."
"Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke."
"Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose."
"The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love."
"So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time."
"The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are."
"Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment."
"I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God."
"You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new."
"I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it."
"We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today."
"Discipline enables you to think first and act second."
"Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live."
"God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying."