Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

Sacred worship is all about God.

Dear Lord, please help me pause and allow the Holy Spirit to intervene when I want to react in ways that don't glorify You. Even when I'm caught off guard, may Your love and patience be the spillover from my heart. In Jesus' name, amen.

The children of Israel were led by God, not on the shortest route but rather the ordained route.

Do I walk into situations prepared with the fullness of God in me, free to look for ways to bless others? Or… Do I walk into situations empty and dependent on others to look for way to bless me?

The enemy doesn't take vacations, so we shouldn't take vacations from studying God's Word either. We wouldn't want to go even a few hours without water, certainly not days or weeks, and we should view God's living water for our souls in the same way.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside.

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

We are to be people of truth with grace-filled words. People who choose healing and helpful words. Because whether we realize it or not, believers and unbelievers alike are listening intently to the words we speak. They're reading the words we type. And our words testify to the kind of relationship we have with Jesus and the kind of effect He has on our hearts.

Everything in me wanted to just cross out that ridiculous 3.5-hour scheduled writing appointment and go eat fries in the midst of colored plastic tubes and screaming kids.