Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition. That may explain why so many who are gloomy and grey stay in that mood...and why those who are cheery and enthusiastic continue to be so.
My message is not that you go hungry and give up all nice things. I just say you give up control of them.
Your failure has given you a sensitive, teachable spirit. It has broken the pride barrier in your life.
By merely reviewing the first few lines of the Lord's Prayer, we gain a renewed respect...a healthy and wholesome sense of reverence for our Almighty God and Father.
I have discovered that a joyful countenance has nothing to do with one's age or one's occupation (or lack of it) or one's geography or education or marital status or good looks or circumstances.
Maybe you've never before stopped to consider that God is committed to one major objective in the lives of all His people: to conform us to "the image of His Son."
External beauty is ephemeral. Internal beauty is eternal. The former is attractive to the world; the latter is pleasing to God.
All these earthly struggles that occur are no accident. God is in the midst of them, working out His sovereign will.
Discipleship refuses to let us skate through life tossing around a few religious comments while we live as we please.
Happiness is for today. Joy is available now. We are not to put it on hold.
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