James MacDonald
Author, speaker, and Protestant minister.
If He wasn’t going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn’t have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.
Don’t miss God’s fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.
When you say, I don’t know exactly what God is doing, but I know he’s in control—that’s evidence you’re trusting Him.
When you come to the place where you can’t do anything else, you must stand still and believe… When you can’t do anything, let God do it all.
Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.
I will not fail: God is always victorious.
Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it’ll be okay because of God.
This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there’s no quick solution. If you think it’s taking too long, remember, God is with you.
Our prayer must be, “Father, I’m waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.”
I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God’s objectives means I understand that this is not about me.
God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It’s hard to imagine that kind of love.
It’s not unlikely that God would lie—that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.
What kind of future is in God’s plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That’s why you can hope.
Even if God could lie, He would have no motivation. He can gain nothing by lying. Everything He wants to have happen happens.
When God promises, He’s not saying, I’ll try. He means, I can and I will.
It doesn’t matter what has happened, better things are coming. God’s plan produces hope in me.
Difficult trials will naturally evoke powerful emotions in us. How would your circumstances look today if you chose to focus first on God’s promises?
Too many times we’re looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you’ve got to believe them and live by them.
Eventually you can see that your pain was part of a much larger picture that God was carefully painting.