Quotes About Faith

As did Jesus, when he said to his dear ones, "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves" (Matt. 10:16). The metaphor so perfectly describes our situation we almost want to smile—like when the young bride and groom are waving good-bye and the grandfather leans over to the grandmother and whispers, "They have no idea what they've just gotten themselves into." The humor of absurd understatement. But

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results. God

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

Ed Murphy's The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare is excellent, as is Victory Over the Darkness and The Bondage Breaker by Neil Anderson, and Spiritual Warfare by Timothy Warner.)

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. (James 5: 14–15 UPDATED NIV)

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.

The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him,he will be found by you. (2 Chronicles 15:2)

God can handle your anger, disappointment, even bitterness. But walking away from Jesus is forsaking your only hope out of the heartache.

Think of consecration as aligning and enforcing—aligning yourself with Jesus and all the laws of his kingdom, then enforcing his rule and those laws over the matter in question.

You might have heard the old saying "Give someone a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life." The same holds true for life itself. If you give someone an answer, a rule, a principle, you help him solve one problem. But if you teach him to walk with God, well then, you've helped him solve the rest of his life. You've helped him tap into an inexhaustible

In 'The Allure of Hope,' Jan says, Eve was convinced that God was withholding something from her. Not even the extravagance of Eden could convince her that God's heart is good.

C. S. Lewis writes: "If you consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Your Lord finds your desires not too strong, but too weak.

the power of proclaiming.

God seems to be of the opinion that no one should sustain the rigors of the Christian life without very robust and concrete hopes of brazen reward.

The reason we love The Chronicles of Narnia or Star Wars or The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings is that they are telling us something about our lives that we never, ever get on the evening news. Or from most pulpits. This is our most desperate hour. Without this burning in our hearts, we lose the meaning of our days.

We interpret Jesus through our brokenness. A painful truth, but also a hopeful truth. Maybe we can open up the doors and windows we didn't know we closed.

When we abandon ourselves to love, we find ourselves closer to the one who is always doing that Himself. We find God.

And as I do, even as I say it out loud—I give everyone and everything to you—my soul cooperates a good bit. I'm settling down.

Then I ask for more of God: Jesus—I need more of you; fill me with more of you, God. Restore our union; fill me with your life.

The amount of risk you're willing to take in your life is a direct reflection of what you believe about God.

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

You must understand: the unholy trinity Scripture names as the world, our flesh, and the evil one conspire to undermine your character.

you must cling to is that you have died with Christ in the cross; sin no longer has to rule over you. You have a choice!