“God is fierce in your defense, consistent with His love, and faithful to His promises. He will finish what He has started in you. He delights in you. He’s grateful to call you His own.”- Susie Larson “May you experience the love of Christ, though it is far too great to understand fully. Then you […]
“You are an heir with Christ of God’s Estate. He has placed his Spirit in your heart as a downpayment. What God said to Joshua, he says to you: “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you.’ But first you must possess it. You must deliberately receive what […]
“If you don’t live with a sense of expectancy, wondering what good thing God is up to in and around you, that’s a sign that you need healing, truth, and renewed perspective.”- Maria Erickson “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of […]
“Someday, when we see our Savior face-to-face, for at least a flickering moment we’ll realize that the pain of our sin ran deeper than we knew, the impact of our choices cost more than we realized, and the abundance of His grace was far greater than we imagined.”- Susie Larson “For from his fullness we […]
“The best way to get these identity truths into our hearts is to replace our warped mirrors and beliefs with the truth of God’s Word. Most of us carry plenty of misbeliefs about our own value, forgetting how much God sacrificed for our redemption and freedom.”- Chip Ingram “We’ll never find our Father exasperated by […]
“God sometimes overwhelms us with His manifest presence because we’re due for an upgrade in our perspective of who He is. God reveals His nature so that we might grow more confident in Him. We’re securely tethered to the most immovable, unshakable force in the universe.”- Susie Larson “It is impossible to keep your moral […]
“Ever and always, God allows enough challenges to keep us dependent, enough goodness to keep us encouraged, and enough grace to sustain us.”- Susie Larson “We cannot be too low at His feet if He is to cause the walls of our Jericho to fall. He will have no difficulty with those walls if He […]
“Prayer is not the overcoming of God’s reluctance but laying hold of God’s willingness.”- Martin Luther “[God] has a purpose in His processes. Our story, our desperate needs, are never all about us. God answers our prayers when He’ll get the most glory and can reach the most significant number of people with our story.”- […]
“This flow’r, whose fragrance tender / With sweetness fills the air, / Dispels with glorious splendor / The darkness everywhere. / True man, yet very God, / From sin and death he saves us / And lightens every load.”- Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, LSB 359, v. 3 “Now after Jesus was born in […]
“A renewed mind and a faith perspective will only take you as far as your capacity to know and believe that God is really good. It’s supernatural to cultivate a lifestyle of holy expectancy despite circumstances we’ve experienced and hardships we’ve endured.”- Susie Larson “But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose […]
“I don’t want to look back on my life — my beautiful, wonder-filled, God-given life — and realize that I’ve mostly missed it while I was busy preparing for the worst.”- Nicole Zasowski, licensed marriage and family therapist “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is the tree of life.”- Proverbs 13:12 […]
“May the profound evidence of [God’s] handiwork bring life to your soul. May you slow down enough to behold beauty, and may you take the time to appreciate His intelligent design. Whatever you know of God, know this: there’s more.”- Susie Larson (emphasis author’s) “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never […]