Our Most Important Friendships

“Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother.
Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters. 

~ Ezra Taft Benson,
Farmer, United States Secretary of Agriculture (1953-1961),
President – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985-1994),
Boy Scouts of America Awards: Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope
& Silver Buffalo & International Scouting Award Bronze Wolf

‘Delay’ & His Promises

“Sometimes ‘delay’ is as much a part of God’s will as the promise, itself.”

~ Derek Grier,
Clergyman, Founding Pastor – Grace Church & Founder – Grace Youth Center

Your Dream & A Sense of Peace

“If your dream doesn’t give you a sense of peace, it’s not from God.”

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“If your dream results in more anxiety and fear than peace, it’s probably not God’s dream for you.”

~ Derek Grier,
Clergyman, Founding Pastor – Grace Church & Founder – Grace Youth Center

You’re Already Victorious

“Victory is already yours through Jesus Christ.”

~ Derek Grier,
Clergyman, Founding Pastor – Grace Church & Founder – Grace Youth Center

His Desire: Everybody’s Well

“My family has reaped the benefits of learning that God desires for
everybody to be well, and HE sent His Word to make sure we would know it.”

~ Dodie Osteen,
Co-Founder – Lakewood Church, Speaker & Author

Have Faith & Hope

“I want people to know that God is a good God.
He does want to answer prayers; all we have to do is have faith and hope.
Sometimes life is hard, but God helps us get through.”

~ Dodie Osteen,
Co-Founder – Lakewood Church, Speaker & Author

Wrong Believing & Right Believing

“If we’re honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives.
If you don’t believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself,
‘Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst
would happen to me and my loved ones?

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression,
it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles,
wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a
maximum-security penitentiary. What you believe is powerful.

If you can change what you believe, you can change your life!”

~ Joseph Prince,
Author, Co-Founder & Pastor – New Creation Church

Neglected & Forsaken

“How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake Him here.”

Jonathan Edwards
Theologian, Philosopher & Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1900)

Tribulation without Stain

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it,
not without pain but without stain.”

~ C.S. Lewis
a.k.a. Clive Staples Lewis,
Novelist, Poet, Academic, Medievalist, Literary Critic,
Essayist, Lay Theologian, Broadcaster, Lecturer, & Christian Apologist

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Conversational Praying

“Don”t just pray because it’s a habit. Talk. Have a conversation.”

~ Blair Underwood,
Actor (Television, Film & Stage), Director, Philanthropist,
1993 Humanitarian Award (1993), NAACP Image Awards (3X) & Grammy Award