When you have to put up with mean people,
Think of them as sandpaper.
They may scratch you,
Rub you the wrong way
But eventually…
YOU end up smooth & polished

And the sandpaper….?
It’d be worn out & ugly!

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Jesus Christ, the very Son of God, found it necessary to have definite and extended periods of fellowship alone with His Father. Who could be busier than He? His day was filled from morning to night, speaking to crowds, healing, holding private interviews, traveling and training His disciples; yet He found it necessary to have time alone with God…

The Christian life might be compared to a soldier in battle. He is out on the front lines but is connected with his commanding officer by radio. He calls and tells of the conditions and problems he is facing. Then his commanding officer, who from his vantage point can see the entire battle area, relays instructions. In like manner the Christian shares his joys and sorrow, his victories and defeats, and his needs, as God instructs and guides him through His Word.

It is our heavenly Father who directs our battle of life. He knows the steps we should take. We must take time to go to Him for guidance.”

Bill Bright- “A Handbook for Christian Maturity” (Campus Crusade for Christ International)

“I prayed for faith, and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.’ I had closed my Bible and prayed for faith. I now opened by Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.”

Dwight L. Moody

“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts…I have read the Bible through 100 times, and always with increasing delight. Each time it seems like a new book to me. Great has been the blessing from consecutive, diligent, daily study. I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.”

George Mueller

For teens, your presence will always mean more than your presents.

“Your written instructions are miraculous.
That is why I obey them.
Your word is a doorway that lets in light,
and it helps gullible people understand.
I open my mouth and pant because
I long for your commandments.”
Psalm 119:129-131

“Courage is the power to do well when the air is turbulent and the going gets tough. It is having the character to do well when things are tempting, when things are painful.

It is easy to be a mother when a baby is cooing and gurgling over breakfast; it takes courage to be a mother when the child suffers from a terrible and incurable handicap.

Courage is the power to do well in the face of a threat–to your life, to your security, to your future, to the things you hold dear.”

Lewis Smedes “Practical Christianity” (Tyndale House Publishers)

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.

We’re important,
but not essential;

valuable,
but not indispensable.

We have a part in the play,
but we are not the main act.

A song to sing,
but we are not the featured voice.

God is.