![]() ![]() When reading this quote, it reminds me of the story of Daniel. If we are comfortable, then we are doing something wrong. The Christian life is not about being comfortable. ![]() His life inspires us to trust in the Lord and rely on our faith, knowing that God is a good God who works for the good of those who love Him as Romans 8:28 tells us. He stepped out in faith every time he spoke. He believed that God was working, even when he could not see it. Hebrews 11:1 tells us that, “Faith shows the reality of what we hope for it is the evidence of things we cannot see.” Martin Luther King Jr. His plans are to give us a hope and a future as Jeremiah 29:11 states. We do not have to live in fear because we know and we can have faith because we know the One who created us. However, as Christians we have hope because we know the One who holds the future. It does not matter how many decisions we try to make, we cannot control the future. No matter how hard we try, we can only see what is right in front of us. These small moments will give us faith to trust in God in the major moments. The times in our lives when we entrust God with the little decisions and things that do not seem as important to us. Faith is built on the small things in life. Faith is more than just those big moments. Sometimes we look at a test of faith as being a faith that trusts in the Lord during the big moments in life, decisions that require a lot of thought or even the major difficult times in our lives. God wipes our slate clean and allows us to start over again. No matter what you have done, there is always redemption and forgiveness when you repent to Him. It is a sacrifice that says everyday, “Today I choose to trust in you, Lord, instead of myself.” The beautiful thing about this is that you can start over everyday. ![]() So do not compare yourself to others and what you do not have. Yet the one who has nothing can only serve God. Maybe that is what Billy Sunday meant in this quote because he knew that those who had much struggled with serving themselves rather than the Lord. We know that “blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” We know that the poor have an easier time serving the Lord because they have nothing clouding their view. We often hear the word “poor” throughout the Bible. “I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”- A.W.“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”― C.S.“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” ― John Piper.“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”― C.S.“I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn’t find it out for many months.” - A.W.“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” ― Abigail VanBuren.You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.” - Elisabeth Elliot “The will of God is not something you add to your life.“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.” ― Oswald Chambers.“The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.” - R.C.He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” ― Francis Chan “But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable.“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.“I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.” ― Martin Luther.“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ― Mother Teresa.“Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.” ― C.The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.” Billy Sunday “The fellow that has no money is poor. ![]()
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