Move Ahead in Your Weakness

God waits for you to act first. Don't wait to feel powerful or confident. Move ahead in your weakness, doing the right thing in spite of your fears and feelings. This is how you cooperate with the Holy Spirit, and it is how your character develops.

Always Give Your Best

"People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. What you spend years creating others could destroy overnight: Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God: it was never between you and them anyway."

- Mother Teresa

The Power of the Holy Spirit

Mention the "power of the Holy Spirit," and many people think of miraculous demonstrations and intense emotions. But most of the time the Holy Spirit's power is released in your life in quiet, unassuming ways that you aren't even aware of or feel. He often nudges us with "a gentle whisper." (1 Kings 19:12 NIV)

Give Your Life to God While There's Still Time

Overcome Fear With Growth

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow, was a very influential American psychologist.

Momentum, by Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey's Momentum Theorem provides an illustration of how God-applied momentum can bring sustaining peace to any obstacle in our way: It goes like this: Focused intensity over Time multiplied by God equals unstoppable Momentum.

Dave Ramsey deliver this talk at a church a while back. It is well worth checking out. Here is the first part of the message (it is broken into four parts).

Calm in the Chaos

I heard a song today that was a direct message from God. He weaved an answer to a prayer into an alarm clock awakening. God has me swimming in this chaos so that I will take action to achieve my lifelong dreams. Without chaos it would be easy to leave things as they are. It's tough to make a change when the current situation is so easy to stay within. But the chaos is my tipping point. Time to make it happen regardless of my comfort zone. He is there pushing me along, by my side, knowing that I will fully understand His plan when it is fulfilled. I have trust.