Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.
A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.
Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.
God wants to help us... He loves us... we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.
Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
If God can't get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won't get to anything else you got.
When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.
Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.
Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.
