Influential Sayings

• God wants what's right, not what's left.
• The things in life that are important are not things.
• Decide everything you will get will come from God.
• Treat people equally, do not use people but enjoy people.
• Decide who you are.  Never let anyone tell you that you can't be an eagle.
• God has His people.
• Children are messengers to a time we will never see.
• It's not who you are but whose you are.
• If you're not faithful with a small amount you'll never be good with a bunch.
• The choices we make dictate the life we live
• Change doesn't just happen.  It is created, it can be deliberate.
• In a time of great changes it's the learners who inherit the future.
• There is not an achievement worth remembering that isn't stained with the blood of diligence and etched with the scars of disappointment.
• Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our Spirit is made new every day.
• Attitude of Compromise, Positive Change Network
• We are only responsible for what we can do, not what we can't do.
• You're available for greater things.
• Be careful what you see, where you go, what you want and what you think about.
• Spend your life on something that will outlive it.
• God does not use a dirty vessel
• No matter what…Never stop smiling
• Success can be defined as behaving in a way pleasing to God.
• "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it" - Ralph Waldo Emerson...
• Happiness is never having to see your air bag!
• If anything matters, then everything matters.  – The Shack
• Don’t spend tomorrow’s money today.
• Margin is the space between your load and your limit. But most of us are far more overloaded than we can handle, and there is no margin for error in our lives.
• It’s not the work, but the purpose that makes it special.
• If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.

Some Favorite and Spirit Changing Verses:

Hebrews 12:11  No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.  Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

1 Cor 3:9  For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. NIV

1 John 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 2:10  For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good work, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Mark 8:34  Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

2 Timothy 1:7  For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Proverbs 14:30  A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Assurance of salvation
    And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.  1 John 5:11,12

Assurance of answered prayer
    Until now you have not asked for anything in my name.  Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.                                                John 16:24

Assurance of Victory
    No temptation has seized you except what is common to man.  And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.  But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.                 1 Corinthians 10:13

Assurance of Forgiveness
    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.                                                1 John 1:9

Assurance of Guidance
    Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.    Proverbs 3:5,6

Christ the Center
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!   2 Corinthians 5:17

Christ the Center
    I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.    Galatians 2:20

Obedience to Christ
    Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship.    Romans 12:1

Obedience to Christ
    "Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."   John 14:21

The Word  
    All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.  2 Timothy 3:16

The Word
    Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.     Joshua 1:8

Prayer
    If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.    John 15:7

Prayer
    Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.                                          Philippians 4:6,7

Fellowship
    And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.  Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.  Hebrews 10:24,25

Witnessing
    I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.     Romans 1:16

Fellowship
    For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."       Matthew 18:20

Witnessing
      "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."   Matthew 4:19

All Have Sinned
    for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.    Romans 3:23

All Have Sinned
    We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.     Isaiah 53:6

Sin's Penalty
    For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.       Romans 6:23

Sin's Penalty
    Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment      Hebrews 9:27

Christ Paid the Penalty
    But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.    Romans 5:8

Christ Paid the Penalty
    For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.    1 Peter 3:18

Salvation not by Works
    For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.     Ephesians 2:8,9

Salvation not by Works
    He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,   Titus 3:5

Must Receive Christ
    Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.   John 1:12

Must Receive Christ
    Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.    Revelations 3:20

Assurance of Salvation
    I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.                                 1 John 5:13

Assurance of Salvation
    "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.    John 5:24

His Spirit
    Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?    1 Corinthians 3:16

His Spirit
    We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.       1 Corinthians 2:12

His Strength
    So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.       Isaiah 41:10

His Strength
    I can do everything through him who gives me strength.    Philippians 4:13

His Faithfulness
    Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.      Lamentations 3:22,23

His Faithfulness
    God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?    Numbers 23:19

His Peace
    You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.    Isaiah 26:3

His Peace
    Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.   1 Peter 5:7

His Provision
    He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?   Romans 8:32

His Provision
    And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.     Philippians 4:19

His Help in Temptation
    Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.   Hebrews 2:18

His Help in Temptation
    How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.  I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.   Psalm 119:9,11

Put Christ First
 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.   Matthew 6:33

Put Christ First
    Then He said to them all:  "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. "    Luke 9:23

Separate from the World
    Do not love the world or anything in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For everything in the world-  the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does- comes not from the Father but from the world.      1 John 2:15,16

Separate from the World
    Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will.   Romans 12:2

Worry about tomorrow
   A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.  Proverbs 16:9

God Provides
   And my God will provide all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19

"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." -- Morrie Schwartz