"Think about it this way. Maybe you are going through a struggle in your life. A tragedy strikes you or someone close to you, and you are hurting. So you go to God in prayer, and you ask him to comfort you. Do you realize what God does? He doesn’t give you comfort. Instead he gives you the Holy Spirit, who is called the Comforter. The Holy Spirit literally comes to dwell in you and puts the very comfort of Christ inside you as you walk through your pain."

(Source: godmoves)

"If you ultimately long to be holy, hope to be holy, hate the sin in your life, and are struggling to get there but keep falling short, and you’re in this kind of weird cycle where you kind of run to God for a season, then you run away to clean yourself up, then you run back to God, then you kind of run away when you screw up, and then you run back… If you have yourself in that cycle, I’m telling you, you’re walking in a fear-based religion that does not quite understand that God has already decreed you as holy and blameless. He has, in His adopting work, decreed to the universe that you are His and He delights in you, is proud of you, loves you, and cherishes you. You are a co-heir with Christ of all He has."

(Source: hislivingpoetry)

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I want so badly for my best friend to know that this is true for her.

"Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

"It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God. It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times. When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear."

(Source: littlewarriorforjesus)

"The beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ is not that everything goes like you want it to go. The beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that we get God regardless of circumstance and He will be enough."

"Life is hard. Hope is elusive. But God wins. His good, never-failing, constant, abiding, true, deep love…it wins. And by actively choosing to recognize that, even if it doesn’t completely swallow my fear the way I wish it did, helps me evaluate my days through a different lens. God wins."

chrispasik:

There are a few things in the Bible that always strike a chord with me when I read them. They are phrases like therefore, because of, or, in this case, do not forget this one thing… The reason for these phrases sticking out is usually the writer is coming to a great conclusion about what he has…

"Now, remember, you will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything else but Christ."

(Source: christusexemplar)

"Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, ‘Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God—He cares for me.’"

(Source: desiringgod.org)