Max Lucado Quotes

Most popular Max Lucado Quotes

In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled. - Max Lucado quote.
In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.

anxiety self-determination

Success is not defined by position or pay scale but by this: doing the most what you do the best. - Max Lucado quote.
Success is not defined by position or pay scale but by this: doing the most what you do the best.

success what is success

The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear. - Max Lucado quote.
The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.

self-determination anxiety

You will never go where God is not. - Max Lucado quote.
You will never go where God is not.

God

God will use your struggle for good. - Max Lucado quote.
God will use your struggle for good.

God adversity

Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs. - Max Lucado quote.
Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.

anxiety

Good days. Bad days. God is in all days. - Max Lucado quote.
Good days. Bad days. God is in all days.

God adversity

Difficult days demand decisions of faith. - Max Lucado quote.
Difficult days demand decisions of faith.

faith adversity

Open every pore of your soul to God's presence. - Max Lucado quote.
Open every pore of your soul to God's presence.
In God's hands intended evil becomes eventual good. - Max Lucado quote.
In God's hands intended evil becomes eventual good.

God evil

Each person is given something to do that shows who God is. - Max Lucado quote.
Each person is given something to do that shows who God is.
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biblical

Resist the urge to reclaim the problem once you've given it up. - Max Lucado quote.
Resist the urge to reclaim the problem once you've given it up.
Every challenge, large or small, can equip you for a future opportunity. - Max Lucado quote.
Every challenge, large or small, can equip you for a future opportunity.

adversity

What you have in Christ is greater than anything you don't have in life. - Max Lucado quote.
What you have in Christ is greater than anything you don't have in life.

Christianity

He is the Potter; we are the clay. He is the Shepherd; we are the sheep. - Max Lucado quote.
He is the Potter; we are the clay. He is the Shepherd; we are the sheep.

God

How many disasters would be averted if we'd go first, in faith, to Jesus? - Max Lucado quote.
How many disasters would be averted if we'd go first, in faith, to Jesus?
Your anxiety decreases as your understanding of your father [God] increases. - Max Lucado quote.
Your anxiety decreases as your understanding of your father [God] increases.

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Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts. It flushes the self-pity out of our systems. - Max Lucado quote.
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts. It flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

gratitude

Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God. - Max Lucado quote.
Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God.

God Christianity grace

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is avoidable. - Max Lucado quote.
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is avoidable.

anxiety

Feed your fears, and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will. - Max Lucado quote.
Feed your fears, and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

fear faith

Anytime we trust an object or activity to give us life and meaning, we worship it. - Max Lucado quote.
Anytime we trust an object or activity to give us life and meaning, we worship it.

worship

And when God hears your heart, does he not hear the still-beating heart of his Son? - Max Lucado quote.
And when God hears your heart, does he not hear the still-beating heart of his Son?
God gives hope because he gives us himself. He wants us to know we are never alone. - Max Lucado quote.
God gives hope because he gives us himself. He wants us to know we are never alone.

God hopeful

God is at work in each of us, whether we know it or not, whether we want it or not. - Max Lucado quote.
God is at work in each of us, whether we know it or not, whether we want it or not.

God

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one. - Max Lucado quote.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

fear anxiety

Thankful people focus less on the pillows we lack and more on the privileges we have. - Max Lucado quote.
Thankful people focus less on the pillows we lack and more on the privileges we have.

gratitude

You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be. - Max Lucado quote.
You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.

inspirational religious

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off. - Max Lucado quote.
Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Christianity grace

We cannot always see what God is doing, but can't we assume he is up to something good? - Max Lucado quote.
We cannot always see what God is doing, but can't we assume he is up to something good?

hopeful God

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras—bold, brassy, and everywhere. - Max Lucado quote.
Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras—bold, brassy, and everywhere.

Bible

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will. - Max Lucado quote.
Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

adversity

Satan has no recourse to your testimony. Your best weapon against his attacks is a good memory. - Max Lucado quote.
Satan has no recourse to your testimony. Your best weapon against his attacks is a good memory.
The manger invites, even dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today. - Max Lucado quote.
The manger invites, even dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.
The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish. - Max Lucado quote.
The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.

sin

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us. - Max Lucado quote.
God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us.

God

I don't have an easy solution or a magic wand. I have found something—Someone—far better. God himself. - Max Lucado quote.
I don't have an easy solution or a magic wand. I have found something—Someone—far better. God himself.

God adversity

God invites us to enter Canaan. There is only one condition. We must turn our backs on the wilderness. - Max Lucado quote.
God invites us to enter Canaan. There is only one condition. We must turn our backs on the wilderness.
The secret of survival in enemy territory? Remember. Remember what God has done. Remember whose you are. - Max Lucado quote.
The secret of survival in enemy territory? Remember. Remember what God has done. Remember whose you are.
Jesus did not enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves. - Max Lucado quote.
Jesus did not enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves.

Jesus

When you do the most what you do the best, you put a smile on God's face. What could be better than that? - Max Lucado quote.
When you do the most what you do the best, you put a smile on God's face. What could be better than that?
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. - Max Lucado quote.
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

God purpose of life religious

It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ. - Max Lucado quote.
It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.

Jesus adversity

Father, you are good.
I need help. Heal me and forgive me.
They need help.
Thank you.
In Jesus' name, amen. - Max Lucado quote.
Father, you are good.
I need help. Heal me and forgive me.
They need help.
Thank you.
In Jesus' name, amen.

Jesus prayers Christianity

If God can make a prince out of a prisoner, don't you think he can make something good out of your struggle? - Max Lucado quote.
If God can make a prince out of a prisoner, don't you think he can make something good out of your struggle?

God adversity

God calmed the fears of Isaiah, not by removing the problem, but by revealing his divine power and presence. - Max Lucado quote.
God calmed the fears of Isaiah, not by removing the problem, but by revealing his divine power and presence.

problems Christianity

When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. - Max Lucado quote.
When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life.

fear

Confession, you see, is not a punishment for sin; it is an isolation of sin so it can be exposed and extracted. - Max Lucado quote.
Confession, you see, is not a punishment for sin; it is an isolation of sin so it can be exposed and extracted.

Christianity sin confession

God surrounds us like the Pacific surrounds an ocean floor pebble. He is everywhere: above, below, on all sides. - Max Lucado quote.
God surrounds us like the Pacific surrounds an ocean floor pebble. He is everywhere: above, below, on all sides.

God

Why did God go so far? He wants you to know that he gets you. He understands how you feel and has faced what you face. - Max Lucado quote.
Why did God go so far? He wants you to know that he gets you. He understands how you feel and has faced what you face.
Use your uniqueness (what you do) to make a big deal out of God (why you do it) every day of your life (where you do it). - Max Lucado quote.
Use your uniqueness (what you do) to make a big deal out of God (why you do it) every day of your life (where you do it).

inspirational religious

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: grace. - Max Lucado quote.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: grace.

Christianity grace

We speak. He listens. He speaks. We listen. This is prayer in its purest form. God changes his people through such moments. - Max Lucado quote.
We speak. He listens. He speaks. We listen. This is prayer in its purest form. God changes his people through such moments.

Christianity prayer God

This season in which you find yourself may puzzle you, but it does not bewilder God. He can and will use it for his purpose. - Max Lucado quote.
This season in which you find yourself may puzzle you, but it does not bewilder God. He can and will use it for his purpose.

religious adversity

Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. - Max Lucado quote.
Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

biblical

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia. It dulls our miracle memory. It makes us forget what Jesus has done and how good God is. - Max Lucado quote.
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia. It dulls our miracle memory. It makes us forget what Jesus has done and how good God is.

religious fear

Our Promised Land isn't a physical territory; it is a spiritual reality. It's not real estate but a real state of the heart and mind. - Max Lucado quote.
Our Promised Land isn't a physical territory; it is a spiritual reality. It's not real estate but a real state of the heart and mind.
Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains. - Max Lucado quote.
Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains.

fear

To sin is to state, "God, I do not want you to be my king. I prefer a kingless kingdom. Or, better still, a kingdom in which I am king." - Max Lucado quote.
To sin is to state, "God, I do not want you to be my king. I prefer a kingless kingdom. Or, better still, a kingdom in which I am king."

Christianity sin

Compassion matters to God. This is the time for service, not self-centeredness. Cancel the pity party. Love the people God brings to you. - Max Lucado quote.
Compassion matters to God. This is the time for service, not self-centeredness. Cancel the pity party. Love the people God brings to you.
God's healing includes a shift away from the cramped world of grudge toward spacious ways of grace, away from hardness toward forgiveness. - Max Lucado quote.
God's healing includes a shift away from the cramped world of grudge toward spacious ways of grace, away from hardness toward forgiveness.
Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread. It does to anxiety what the morning sun does to valley mist. It burns it up. - Max Lucado quote.
Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread. It does to anxiety what the morning sun does to valley mist. It burns it up.

religious gratitude

To change the way a person responds to life, change what a person believes about life. The most important thing about you is your belief system. - Max Lucado quote.
To change the way a person responds to life, change what a person believes about life. The most important thing about you is your belief system.

beliefs

This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good. - Max Lucado quote.
This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good.

God

Do you recite your woes more naturally than you do heaven's strength? If so, no wonder life is tough. You're assuming God isn't in this crisis. He is. - Max Lucado quote.
Do you recite your woes more naturally than you do heaven's strength? If so, no wonder life is tough. You're assuming God isn't in this crisis. He is.

adversity God

God never called you to be anyone other than you. But he does call on you to be the best you you can be. The big question is, at your best, who are you? - Max Lucado quote.
God never called you to be anyone other than you. But he does call on you to be the best you you can be. The big question is, at your best, who are you?
Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose. - Max Lucado quote.
Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

religious pain

Unbelief: attempting to help others without calling on Jesus. Belief: pounding on God's door at midnight. Doing whatever it takes to present people to Jesus. - Max Lucado quote.
Unbelief: attempting to help others without calling on Jesus. Belief: pounding on God's door at midnight. Doing whatever it takes to present people to Jesus.

Christianity beliefs

Eight steps. Pray, first. Easy, now. Act on it. Compile a worry list. Evaluate your worry categories. Focus on today. Unleash a worry army. Let God be enough. P-E-A-C-E-F-U-L. - Max Lucado quote.
Eight steps. Pray, first. Easy, now. Act on it. Compile a worry list. Evaluate your worry categories. Focus on today. Unleash a worry army. Let God be enough. P-E-A-C-E-F-U-L.
Look back over your life. What have you consistently done well? What have you loved to do? Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness. - Max Lucado quote.
Look back over your life. What have you consistently done well? What have you loved to do? Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness.
See your desires as gifts to heed rather than longings to suppress, and you'll feel the same joy. So go ahead; reflect on your life. What have you always done well and loved to do? - Max Lucado quote.
See your desires as gifts to heed rather than longings to suppress, and you'll feel the same joy. So go ahead; reflect on your life. What have you always done well and loved to do?
Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action. - Max Lucado quote.
Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action.

prayer

To be saved by grace is to be saved by him — not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership, but by Jesus himself, who will sweep into heaven anyone who so much as gives him the nod. - Max Lucado quote.
To be saved by grace is to be saved by him — not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership, but by Jesus himself, who will sweep into heaven anyone who so much as gives him the nod.

Christianity Jesus grace

Storms are coming your way. Winds will howl, your boat will be tossed, and you will have a choice. Will you hear Christ or the crisis? Heed the promises of Scripture or the noise of the storm? - Max Lucado quote.
Storms are coming your way. Winds will howl, your boat will be tossed, and you will have a choice. Will you hear Christ or the crisis? Heed the promises of Scripture or the noise of the storm?

adversity

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not. Sometimes you have to take your feelings outside and give them a good talking-to. - Max Lucado quote.
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not. Sometimes you have to take your feelings outside and give them a good talking-to.

God

Fear, mismanaged, leads to sin. Sin leads to hiding. Since we've all sinned, we all hide, not in bushes, but in eighty-hour workweeks, temper tantrums, and religious busyness. We avoid contact with God. - Max Lucado quote.
Fear, mismanaged, leads to sin. Sin leads to hiding. Since we've all sinned, we all hide, not in bushes, but in eighty-hour workweeks, temper tantrums, and religious busyness. We avoid contact with God.

fear sin

For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything (James 1: 3 – 4 NLT). - Max Lucado quote.
For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything (James 1: 3 – 4 NLT).

biblical religious adversity

Don't let the crisis paralyze you. Don't let the sadness overwhelm you. Don't let the fear intimidate you. To do nothing is the wrong thing. To do something is the right thing. And to believe is the highest thing. - Max Lucado quote.
Don't let the crisis paralyze you. Don't let the sadness overwhelm you. Don't let the fear intimidate you. To do nothing is the wrong thing. To do something is the right thing. And to believe is the highest thing.

adversity inspirational

Ponder your achievements less; ponder Christ's more. Spend less time on your throne and more at his cross. Brag on his work, not yours. You are valuable, but you aren't invaluable. It is Christ who matters, not us. - Max Lucado quote.
Ponder your achievements less; ponder Christ's more. Spend less time on your throne and more at his cross. Brag on his work, not yours. You are valuable, but you aren't invaluable. It is Christ who matters, not us.

Jesus

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this. - Max Lucado quote.
You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

hopeful inspirational motivational religious adversity

Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. My friend, he wants to talk with you. Even now, as you read these words, he taps at the door. Open it. Welcome him in. Let the conversation begin. - Max Lucado quote.
Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. My friend, he wants to talk with you. Even now, as you read these words, he taps at the door. Open it. Welcome him in. Let the conversation begin.

God Christianity prayer

God uses every possible means to communicate with you. The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you. He wants to help you find your way home. - Max Lucado quote.
God uses every possible means to communicate with you. The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you. He wants to help you find your way home.

God

The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles. - Max Lucado quote.
The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles.
Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire. - Max Lucado quote.
Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.

God Christianity

God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them. He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you. He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner. Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection. - Max Lucado quote.
God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them. He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you. He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner. Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

Christianity Jesus grace sin

If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest incidents take on significance. - Max Lucado quote.
If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest incidents take on significance.

religious adversity

Sometimes the challenge is just too much. ... You just run out of fight. Life has a way of taking the life out of us. The book of Joshua is in the Bible for such seasons. It dares us to believe our best days are ahead of us. God has a Promised Land for us to take. - Max Lucado quote.
Sometimes the challenge is just too much. ... You just run out of fight. Life has a way of taking the life out of us. The book of Joshua is in the Bible for such seasons. It dares us to believe our best days are ahead of us. God has a Promised Land for us to take.

Bible

To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, fret, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting inactivity. Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;... not fret". - Max Lucado quote.
To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, fret, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting inactivity. Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;... not fret".

religious waiting

That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take. - Max Lucado quote.
That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.
In Canaan you do not fight for victory. You fight from victory. In the wilderness you strive. In Canaan you trust. In the wilderness you seek God's attention. In Canaan you already have God's favor. In the wilderness you doubt your salvation. In Canaan you know you are saved. You move from wanting-to-have to believing you already do. - Max Lucado quote.
In Canaan you do not fight for victory. You fight from victory. In the wilderness you strive. In Canaan you trust. In the wilderness you seek God's attention. In Canaan you already have God's favor. In the wilderness you doubt your salvation. In Canaan you know you are saved. You move from wanting-to-have to believing you already do.
God will do that for you. Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest. - Max Lucado quote.
God will do that for you. Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.
Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become. We growl and bare our fangs. Why? Because we are bad? In part. But also because we feel cornered. - Max Lucado quote.
Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become. We growl and bare our fangs. Why? Because we are bad? In part. But also because we feel cornered.

fear

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don't forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4: 6 – 7 TLB) - Max Lucado quote.
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don't forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4: 6 – 7 TLB)

biblical

Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But grace chooses to see God's forgiveness even more. It refuses to let hurts poison the heart. "See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many" (Heb. 12: 15 NIV). Where grace is lacking, bitterness abounds. Where grace abounds, forgiveness grows. - Max Lucado quote.
Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But grace chooses to see God's forgiveness even more. It refuses to let hurts poison the heart. "See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many" (Heb. 12: 15 NIV). Where grace is lacking, bitterness abounds. Where grace abounds, forgiveness grows.

Christianity grace

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart — poisoned as it is with pride and pain — and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn't just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you. - Max Lucado quote.
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart — poisoned as it is with pride and pain — and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn't just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you.

Christianity grace

As one writer observed, "Many Christians view their conversion as something like a car wash: You go in a filthy clunker; you come out with your sins washed away—a cleansed clunker." But conversion is more than a removal of sin. It is a deposit of power. It is as if your high-mileage, two-cylinder engine was extracted and a brand-new Ferrari engine was mounted in your frame. - Max Lucado quote.
As one writer observed, "Many Christians view their conversion as something like a car wash: You go in a filthy clunker; you come out with your sins washed away—a cleansed clunker." But conversion is more than a removal of sin. It is a deposit of power. It is as if your high-mileage, two-cylinder engine was extracted and a brand-new Ferrari engine was mounted in your frame.
Because of Bethlehem, I have a Savior in heaven. Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the King on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. - Max Lucado quote.
Because of Bethlehem, I have a Savior in heaven. Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the King on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure.

Jesus

This season in which you find yourself may puzzle you, but it does not bewilder God.

God adversity

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

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Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs and don't forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4: 6 – 7 TLB)