Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

listen. 15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Quoting God's Word in the present tense infuses our hearts with holy restraint and diffuses our reactions so we don't spew.

1 Samuel 25:25

I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe. So

Remember, this [life] is a love story. And we will never appreciate or even desire the hope of our True Love if lesser loves don't disappoint.

So, here's the short version of my predetermined biblical procedure manual all in one place: Alarmed, I resolve to remember who I am. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Stay in the flow—my job is obedience; God's job is results. Shift from an attitude to gratitude. My reactions determine my reach.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

We don't think about fixing things until we realize they are broken.

Oh, dear God, help me trust You beyond what my physical eyes can see. As the winds of all that's uncontrollable whip around me and thrash against me, I need something to ground me. Steady me. Hold me together when circumstances are falling apart. I want to trust You beyond what my eyes can see.

coated with unmet expectations. So, what do I do? Well, I've found it tremendously helpful to list the expectations I have of a relationship in which I'm feeling slighted. Then I prayerfully discern whether or not my expectations are realistic or unrealistic. And if I can't really discern one way or the other, I ask. I ask God. I ask that person. I ask someone wise who knows both of us well.

Sacred worship is all about God.

Dear Lord, please help me pause and allow the Holy Spirit to intervene when I want to react in ways that don't glorify You. Even when I'm caught off guard, may Your love and patience be the spillover from my heart. In Jesus' name, amen.

The children of Israel were led by God, not on the shortest route but rather the ordained route.

Do I walk into situations prepared with the fullness of God in me, free to look for ways to bless others? Or… Do I walk into situations empty and dependent on others to look for way to bless me?

The enemy doesn't take vacations, so we shouldn't take vacations from studying God's Word either. We wouldn't want to go even a few hours without water, certainly not days or weeks, and we should view God's living water for our souls in the same way.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside.

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

We are to be people of truth with grace-filled words. People who choose healing and helpful words. Because whether we realize it or not, believers and unbelievers alike are listening intently to the words we speak. They're reading the words we type. And our words testify to the kind of relationship we have with Jesus and the kind of effect He has on our hearts.