Quotes About Dependence

No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

in every moment when you are parenting, you are being parented. In every moment when you are called to give grace, you are being given grace. In every moment when you are rescuing and protecting your children, you are being rescued and protected. In every moment when you feel alone, you are anything but alone because he goes wherever you go.

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

Trust is being so convinced that you can rely on the integrity, strength, character, and faithfulness of another that you are willing to place yourself in his or her care.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

God's call to obey is itself a grace. In this call, he is actively rescuing you from you.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

God knows that we are incapable of carrying the burden of sovereign knowledge that he carries, so he lovingly protects us by telling us what we need to know: we are to rest in him and live as he has ordained, while he protects us from what would overwhelm us.

If you're God's child, you will never again have just you to depend on. No, you've been blessed, right here, right now, with grace.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.

Prayer is abandoning hope of independent capability and believing that in Christ you're given everything you need for life and godliness.

Corporate worship is designed to humble you by pointing out the depth of your need and enthrall you by pointing to the glory of God's provision.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.

It really does take grace to know how much you need grace.

You can take your life off your shoulders because God has placed it on his.

If Christ is the head of his body—and he is—then everything else is just body. The most influential pastor or ministry leader is a member of the body of Christ and therefore needs what the other members of the body need.

Si tomas el crédito como líder, en lugar de reconocer al que te envió y al único que produce el fruto de tus labores, alabarás menos, orarás menos y planearás más.

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Prayer finds its hope not in the qualifications of the one praying, but in the character and plan of the God who is hearing.