FROM THE KEYBOARD

We often pray for deliverance from trials, but we really need to pray for endurance while we go through them. You see, it's usually within the greatest pressures of life that we are afforded the opportunity to experience the greatest presence of God.

God appraised your life priceless when He went to the cross and made you righteous. You see, the Father bankrupted heaven when He gave us the wealth of Jesus' life; we cannot add nor take away from this appraisal, for we have been bought with a price. The cross therefore, proves you are uniquely special to God.

God's peace for us is always in the present. So when we stress the future, peace can no longer be our governor. Therefore, let us not worry about what tomorrow may bring circumstantially. But let us hold our peace and trust that God is already there faithfully.

In order to be the hands of Jesus, one must know the heart of Jesus. His heart bleeds compassion over condemnation and desires to lift others up to grace, not push them down to shame. Thus, let us be His hands--ones that look to love--so that others can find His heart.

In God's economy, even a failure can be classified as a success when the failure draws you closer to the Savior. In other words, because of the chemistry of the cross, all things--even bad things--can be recycled to make a good thing.

The truth of what God thinks about you is more important than the lies that others may think about you. Thus, you can choose to either be devoured by the fear of man or you can choose to be empowered by the fear of the Lord, but you can't do both.