Temptations of Prosperity
With greater success comes greater measures of trust, which, by the way, lead to greater times of unguarded vulnerability.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
With greater success comes greater measures of trust, which, by the way, lead to greater times of unguarded vulnerability.
That's why our Lord means so much to us. He is intimately acquainted with all our ways. Darkness and light are alike to Him. No one of us is hidden from His sight.
In our hectic, hurried, harassed age in which headache medications have become the bestselling national product, we must occasionally be made to lie down by our Shepherd-Saviour.
I want to be quite direct with you. Secular thought has taken a tragic toll on the servant of God's distinctiveness.
God says we are to be "imitators" of Him, which really means we are to "mimic" Him. Since God is a God of freshness and change, so we should be.
God has no limitations in His ability to pull something off, but He's going to do it in His time and not before.
One of my mentors used to say, "Mercy is God's ministry to the miserable."
How do we live with worry and stress and fear? How do we withstand these joy stealers?
God is the Potter; we are the clay. He's the Shepherd; we are the sheep. He's the Master; we are the servant.
Begin each day by renewing your sense of reverence for God. Start each new day by talking to the Lord, even if that early morning talk has to be brief.