Quotes from Joanna Weaver

Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.

I need to know," we tell ourselves. "No," God answers softly, "You need to trust.

We only trust people we know,' says Martha Tennison...'If you're struggling to trust God, it may be because you don't really know God.

Service without spirituality is exhausting and hopeless. But . . . spirituality without service is barren and selfish.

The fact is, until we stop doubting God's goodness, we can't experience God's love.

FRETTING MAGNIFIES THE PROBLEM, BUT PRAYER MAGNIFIES GOD.

though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts.

When we're distracted and discouraged, tired and overwhelmed, there is no better place to go than to our Father. He alone has what we need. Don't snivel under a broom tree. Don't hide in a broom closet. Go to the Lord and let him sweep away your discouragement.

He's calling us to the Great Exchange--the one where we ccan never lose. As we trade the "many things" that make us anxious, He gives us the "one thing" that calms our hearts. Himself.

We are as intimate with God as we choose to be."7 The only limitations of God's presence in our lives are the limits we ourselves set—the excuses we set up to avoid being filled to the measure with God.

For even a little sin in our wellspring has the power to pollute and corrupt the very essence of who we are.

We all want a testimony, but we'd rather skip the test that gives us one.

I believe the ability to love people as we should only comes from the security of knowing we ourselves are loved. For you cannot share what you do not have. Which is another reason we need the Holy Spirit—for He bears witness with our hearts that we are God's children, and dearly loved as well (Romans 8:15–16, 1 John 3:1).

All over the world, people go to unimaginable lengths to find God—which is sad when you consider the unimaginable lengths God has already gone to find us.

And Jesus' words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed." The "one thing" is not found in doing more. It's found by sitting at his feet.

we do need to learn how to say no, but only so we are able to say yes to God when he wants to give us an assignment.

Take my struggles and use them for your glory. But whatever you do, please don't leave me the same.

being teachable, in essence, involves three things: being willing to listen acting on what we hear responding to discipline

Do not be anxious about anything," Paul wrote in Philippians 4:6–7, "but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Its been said that worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV).

Someone has said that Jesus went from place of prayer to place of prayer and did miracles in between.

Faith is about how you live your life in the meantime, how you make decisions when you don't know for sure what's next. What you do with yourself between the last time you heard from God and the next time you hear from God is the ongoing challenge of a life of faith.5