Yes, give thanks for “all things” for, as it has been well said, “Our disappointments are but His appointments.”
– AW Pink –
Dependence
God Supplies All Our Needs – Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
True Godliness – Major Ian Thomas
True godliness leaves the world convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the only explanation for you, is Jesus Christ to whose eternally unchanging and altogether adequate “I AM!” your heart has learned to say with unshatterable faith, “Thou art!”
– Ian Thomas –
Strength in Weakness – Erwin Lutzer
You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.
– Erwin Lutzer –
Something better than riches and gold – Hudson Taylor
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
You are not called to be comfortable – Francis Chan
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. 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 –
Commit Everything to God – AW Tozer
Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.
– AW Tozer –
What your anxiety reveals – John Piper
Our anxiety shows us that we are too close to the world and too far from God.
– John Piper –
Why I am no longer anxious about anything – Hudson Taylor
I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize the Lord is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how that is rather for Him to consider than for me; for in the easiest positions He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient.
– Hudson Taylor –