I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.
Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.
When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done. . . is doing. . . and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it. . . stay amazed!
If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.