“As a child of God, please recognize that God is the strength of your life. Not your husband, children, job, friends, loved ones, or well-wishers. God should be the strength of your life, the source of your joy.”

“The sins of my youth hunt me down with ferocity, they are new every morningMy soul is troubled, and I am graced with disgrace This is a losing war, and my determination seems not enough to deliver meI have prayed and I have interceded, I have stayed up all night hoping to reconfigure my brain I pray and I plead and I pray to the heavens, lest the fingers that fed me forget meMy shameful lust has stripped me of all dignity, as I bow down and am made slave to sin Bound by my own iniquity, the wrath of God draws nearerI can only plead for mercy for so long, before I am considered a lost causeA solution for my madness is not evident, and my deliverance is nowhere in sightThis is sinking sand upon which I tread, and the clock is ticking”

“I see now that life is warbut I am so tired -”

“Peace is about going deeper in God. It’s about trusting him and yielding our worries and fears to the Holy Spirit – who is already at work inside us. It’s about placing our focus heavenward instead of fixing our focus on our struggles”

“A lament is an act of worship, a faith statement of trust, in the face of difficulty. It’s a wonderfully honest way to acknowledge our trouble to God as we also acknowledge our hope is in him.”

“The moral of the story is, faith does not always bring you happiness, wealth or a comfortable lifestyle filled with fun things to do. What faith does bring us is hope while living out God’s attitudes of: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, all for the glory of God and the establishment of his kingdom.”

“With faith in God, we can walk through the fires unharmed.”

“The vision is always for the appointed time. Though it tarry, it will not fail. It shall surely come to pass in perfect moment.”

“Fill your mind Holy Scripture, that speak life into your life.”

“May God give you much grace for every great work.”

“…hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust.”

“To repent is to return to God.”

“A great many of us have come to believe that hope and significance is an external construct-something contingent on our circumstances. As a result, we fail to believe that the Christian life, at least in its fullest and most abundant form, can be lived anywhere.”

“Sometimes you must stand still in order to get moving to where GOD wants you to go.”

“Two natures beat within my breastThe one is foul, the one is blessedThe one I love, the one I hate.The one I feed will dominate.-Anonymous”