Quotes from Steve Farrar

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.

It's the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.

Unrealistic expectations are a subtle way of setting ourselves up for disappointment, discouragement, and even depression.

The Boaz Man, as we saw in the last chapter, is a solid citizen and family man, a man of character and integrity who operates out of servanthood, rather than selfishness or greed. Because the Lord Jesus Christ is King of his life, he in turn serves his King by serving others.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

In these days of great uncertainty, our great God wants His people to know that He can be trusted. And He is giving us the opportunity to find out for ourselves that His promises can be trusted.

In the midst of this unsettling frenzy there is something we all need to know. God is your banker. God is your social security. God is your health-care provider. You don't need a bigger government. You have a great God. And unlike silver-tongued politicians, He can be trusted to keep His promises. I vote for Him.

The situations that frighten us and overwhelm us are actually scenarios from the Lord designed to test our faith and strengthen our faith.

So what does Boaz have to do with you and your daily life and pressures? Consider this: it means that God has a detailed and providential plan that He is working in your life—even when it seems like your life is dull and boring.

Thomas Watson who said, "The Scriptures are the library of the Holy Ghost.… The Scriptures contain in it the credenda, 'the things which we are to believe,' and the agenda, 'the things which we are to practice.'" I need to make sure I visit that library every day.

What are we saying to our children when we forsake church week after week so they can play soccer, baseball, or football? Why would we forsake worship of the living God to embrace kicking a ball? Why not forsake soccer to let our children know who and what is most important in our lives? There is nothing wrong with sports. But when sport is valued over the worship of God, something is seriously wrong. All that we have comes from His hand. He deserves

The very gates of hell cannot make us stumble unless we choose to remove ourselves from His protection and power"?

America is in moral and spiritual decline—and your favorite candidate or political party isn't going to fix it. Why are we in decline? The answer is that God has given us over to reprobate minds. A reprobate mind is one that doesn't use reason or discernment. It suppresses truth instead of embracing truth—just

God is never early, and He is never late. He is always right on time. Sometimes we want Him to be early. And as you wait for Him, you see the clock ticking and begin to panic. But He will show up precisely at the right moment.

If you really want a life of usefulness to God, you have to be ready to fight. You must be willing to take on the giants that come lumbering into your path to block your way and stop your progress.

The sovereignty of God means that He is King and He is in absolute control; and it also means that we are not.

Let me say I am here, 1. By God's appointment 2. In His keeping 3. Under His training 4. For His time.2 Those four observations were not only true in the life of Andrew Murray, they are true for you and me.

Providence is God's execution of His plan in your life and in the entire universe.

God is our refuge and strength, He is well proved to be abundantly available in tight places.