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41 " Making God the object of our longings positions us to recognize the enemy’s schemes for what they are. "
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday
42 " See Jesus now, taking our hands and putting them back into His Father’s. Let’s share the greatest story ever told so others can say yes to Him, and we can all shout, “Amen! "
43 " An abundant life in Christ is available to all, but it’s nonnegotiable—you must give up yours to have His. Consider these words from the late theologian E. M. Bounds: “God takes nothing by halves. He gives nothing by halves. We can have the whole of Him when He has the whole of us. "
44 " Pulling up our lives to make room for Christ’s can be painful, but it comes with a payoff that is too priceless to measure. The more of me I give up, the more aware I am of His abiding presence. That’s not just a sweet trade, friends. It’s the deal of a lifetime. "
45 " let us savor the sweet Word of God. It is satisfying today and rewarding tomorrow! "
46 " Simply put, we won’t worship Him lavishly if we know Him casually. "
47 " so critical that we believers continually recognize how much we need Jesus and resort to Him. "
48 " We can choose to plug into otherworldly strength—or not. "
49 " The Bible says we’re transformed by beholding Him; and if we dare bear His name, we should carry His likeness. For wherever I go, there I AM. "
50 " Once upon a time, I determined to know God, and the more I seek Him, the more I find Him. To be continued "
51 " Jesus can do through us what we could never do in our own strength—if we’ll respond to others out of real-time devotion to Him. Now go be a superhero. Somebody you know needs one. "
52 " We’re works in progress, amen? It’s why I take great comfort from Philippians 1:6, “I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. "
53 " the amazing truth that God looks upon us with pleasure because He sees the finished work of Christ. I can almost hear the two of them now, surveying the work of the cross and announcing with joy, “We did it! "
54 " The promise of abundant life is within our reach, but we’ll have to lay self aside to find it. "
55 " that to follow Christ is not merely to risk our lives; it is to lose them. "
56 " Sounds like God wants us to lose our church language and woolgathering and get real with Him. As I look around at the state of our world, I make a fresh commitment to do just that, and I hope you’ll join me. If not now, when? "
57 " being fully present in every moment of our believing lives. "
58 " but if you’re a believer, you are called to shine. Whatever that looks like on you, shine on. "
59 " I ask myself, what lesson is it I’m wanting someone else to hear that I actually need to apply to my own life? I would encourage you to join me in this prayer: oh, Jesus, we surrender our own agendas. Give us ears to hear! "
60 " I want skeptics to witness my love for Jesus and my desperate desire for more of Him and have their indifferent and hard hearts shaken to the core until they have to begin looking for Him themselves. For the Bible tells us that we can’t seek Him without finding Him, and my experience has been that to know Him is to love Him. "