A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn’t break.

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don’t worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry…He’s risen!

Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, “Feel joy.” He says, “Rejoice!” It’s a choice.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how...

Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan.

Your Honor, if giving the finger is a motive for murder, then most everyone in this courtroom would be on trial

When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

Teach me to be resigned to thy will, to delight in thy law, to have no will but thine, to believe that everything thou doest is for my good.” [pg. 132, Divine Promises]

My pastor used to say you’re either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.

I made a mistake and it was forgiven, but the damage done has been remarkable. Nothing comes easy after a typhoon cleared all property. I left you hanging that’s why I came back and willing...

These words [of Romans 12:1-2] are overflowingly rich in consolation; for just then when afflictions come over us, we should be of good courage, because that is the good will of God. Therefore we should...

This is a trial about watermelons! Watermelons are invertebrate creatures!’ cried Quall.

Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass...

Anxiously you ask, ‘Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?’ The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the...

God alone knows exactly what you and I must endure in order to form His character in us. It is in our trials that God refines us and removes our impurities. Like refined gold, when...

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalms 30:5)” So please take heart, this too shall pass. ~Jason Versey

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now,...

[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

Though he slay me, yet I will praise him,” he began softly, his voice a little tremulous at first. “I will rise up in the morning with the dew and praise his name. He has...

If you couldn’t sense heat, you’d not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself...

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation...

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!

I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed;...

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

Trials for lawyers are like bills. It seems that you finish paying one, and feel that feeling of relief, then it’s time to pay it again.

Face it; life’s gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you’re lucky you’ll get stuck to the bottom of someone’s shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not...

Ukipata matatizo kumbuka kwamba Yesu alipata matatizo pia, na kutokana na matatizo hayo mimi na wewe tulipata uhuru. Soma Biblia. Soma nyimbo katika kitabu cha Zaburi zinazomsifu Mungu katika kipindi cha matatizo. Funga na kuomba...

Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it….get hit by a virus, survive that and “supposedly” it can never get u again… observe how ur skin that gets...

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father’s will. I couldn’t have what I wanted when and...

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and...

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

Never judge a man because of his presence condition or situations. Remember we all have our moment of trials, tribulations and moment of triumph and success. But because you are in a promise land doesn’t...

karapatan kong madapa at bumangon sa buhay nang walang tatawa, magagalit, magtatanong, o magbibilang kung ilang beses na ‘kong nagkamali at ilang ulit ako dapat bumawi

The devil will never rest, nor sleep, nor turn his head from you. He will find every fault, every weakness, every discrepancy he can magnify, expand and contort every sin to cause you to abort...

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Home is our greatest place of trials.

ATTACK THE FRESH MEAT!

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

Are you aware of who you really are in relationship to the very God who created the Universe, who scattered the stars and aligned the planets? Only to those who remember and realize that they...

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain....

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.