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“True beauty is from God and for God. First Timothy 4:4 says, “For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.” Did you catch that? Everything — including your body, your face, your hair, what you like and what you don’t. All of you is to be received from the One who gave it to you, with thanksgiving. It’s not easy — where I don’t match the cultural standard, it’s downright hard — but it is good (Psalm 92:1).”

Life is a web of trials and temptations”, says Robert Capon, “but only one of them can ever be fatal-the temptation to think it is by further, better, and more aggressive living that we can have life.” The truth is, that you can’t live your way to life–you can only “die [your] way there, lose…

10:41 5-23-12 3 notes

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7:44 5-22-12 3,379 notes

“Sometimes its not about asking God the ability to do something. Sometimes its about asking God the will to do it.”

— Dr. Penland (via littlethingsaboutgod)

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2:59 5-22-12 75 notes

“A gentleman knows God believes in Him. It is his duty to return the compliment.”

— Darcy in Lost in Austen

2:57 5-22-12

“Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God’s calling you to do. He’s put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else’s. And you’re wired that way for a reason.”

—

Kari Jobe (via littlethingsaboutgod)

timely true.

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13:36 5-21-12 597 notes

me,
too much of the time

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13:31 5-17-12 8,708 notes

for

apart from You i can do nothing.

but i need to focus on the You, not the nothing.

for with God all things are possible.

and the point is not the possible, but the God.

2:51 5-14-12

Cease striving and know that I am God.

Ps 46: 10 (NASB)

Let be and be still, and know (recognise and understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth!

11: The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our High Tower and Stronghold). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

Ps 46: 10-11 (AMP)

I am finding it very hard to trust you with many million uncertainties and the possibility of false and fictional impressions of me and on me. in a world of unreliables, teach me your will. it is so difficult to surrender all the striving in this program, and i cannot account for it. only sometimes it makes me wonder if this is right. is the point that i should learn or that i should leave? all i know from your word is that you do not give to me beyond what i can bear, that the burden on you is light and easy to be borne, that all this is common to man. i am not an idiot or an anomaly just as i am not pressed into a mould of perfection, but of brokenness and oh your light filtering through all my gaping, heaving cracks..

2:43 5-14-12

“you lift me up, you never leave me
thirsty”

—

Kari Jobe, Find You on My Knees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGumE9nkP3o

2:33 5-14-12

“Sometimes its not about asking God the ability to do something. Sometimes its about asking God the will to do it.”

“A gentleman knows God believes in Him. It is his duty to return the compliment.”

“Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God’s calling you to do. He’s put a gift and a call and a desire in﻿ your heart that is different than anyone else’s. And you’re wired that way for a reason.”

“you lift me up, you never leave me thirsty”

“Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God’s calling you to do. He’s put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else’s. And you’re wired that way for a reason.”

“you lift me up, you never leave me
thirsty”