Sometimes in our culture we are treated like foreigners or strangers, alien to mainstream culture because our values and beliefs are DIFFERENT.

True obedience isn't often accidental.

At the deepest level of our discouragement, our peace and joy is not based upon the circumstances, but upon our loving Heavenly Father who rules the circumstances. It is only by His grace that we can have rest in the midst of the discouragement, knowing that we are His children and He has promised to never leave us or forsake us.

Spiritually speaking, what purpose or calling do you need to return to? Opposition or difficulty isn’t always a sign that God is against you, often it can be a sign that you are doing exactly what God wants you to do.

When we EMPTY ourselves, we are in the perfect position to be FILLED by God’s grace and to be used by him.

Our efforts to present an outward show of goodness can deceive us! We tend to believe our own show! Jesus exposes the mask and what is under the mask.

God is not interested in worship from people who worship with their lips but whose hearts are far from Him.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self-satisfaction.

~William Osler

Most of us believe if we had more of something—we would be satisfied. How much do you need to be happy?

Feeling distant from God? God hasn’t moved.

Feeling confused? Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.