Quotes about Dependence

Your very lack is an opportunity to latch onto Me in unashamed dependence.

Have gratitude for all the ways I keep you intimately connected to Me, including your joyful dependence on Me.

LIVING IN DEPENDENCE ON ME is the way to enjoy abundant life. You are learning to appreciate tough times, because they amplify your awareness of My Presence.

Your sense of security must not rest in your possessions or in things going your way. I am training you to depend on Me alone, finding fulfillment in My Presence. This entails being satisfied with much or with little, accepting either as My will for the moment. Instead of grasping and controlling, you are learning to release and receive. Cultivate this receptive stance by trusting Me in every situation.

know it is not my strengths that have prepared me for this adventure but my weaknesses, which amplify my need for You. I've

Thank Me for the difficulties in your life, since they provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance.

ENTRUST YOUR LOVED ONES TO ME; release them into My protective care. They are much safer with Me than in your clinging hands.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

God meets our needs one day at a time.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.