"Love is giving someone the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.."

"Love is much more than a risk, but is a risk that one can take and grasp and fall into a dark abyss or dig oneself a hole and only crawl back when you overcome your emotions".

"Give me strength, as you promised and I shall live; don't let me be disappointed in my hope!"

-Psalm 116-

"Though our feelings come and go. God's love for us does not".

-C.S Lewis-

"Starve your doubts and feed your faith"

I never realized until I began really studying God’s Word for myself that the biggest struggles I’ve faced in my life have all been rooted in fear. Insecurity, low self-esteem, a poor self-image, rejection – they are all rooted in fear. FEAR does not come from God. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear…(I John 4:18 NIV).

The more you get to know God, the more confident you become in His love for you. The more confident you become, the less fear you have. The closer you get to Him, the more confident you become in His promises to you that He will never leave you nor forsake you, He will never let you down, He will always provide for you. That confidence is developed the more you receive His love for you.

Fear and faith are two opposite forces. You are either full of faith or full of fear. Fear is the result of listening to Satan’s lies MORE THAN God’s truth. If you are full of fear, that reveals whose voice is the loudest to you.

In order for anything to live, it has to be fed. If you find a stray dog and you give him a bowl of water and some dog food, he’ll be back tomorrow. If you feed into the fears that Satan has planted in your mind (by thinking about them, talking about them, worrying about them), they’ll stay. You have to starve what you want to die and feed what you want to live.

Lester Sumrall said, “Starve your doubts and feed your faith.”

How does faith come? Romans 12:2 says, “Faith comes by hearing the Word…” You’ve got to start hearing God’s Word more than you’re hearing Satan’s lies which means one Sunday morning message is not enough. I’m speaking from experience. Listening to the Word has to become a part of your daily routine if you truly want to overcome fear and step out and do what God wants you to do!

What you don’t know can hurt you! The Bible says, “People are destroyed by a lack of knowledge!”

Satan is a liar, and he works through fear! God’s Word says, “Fear not! There is nothing to fear!” Nothing means nothing! You have to educate yourself in the Word. Build your knowledge of God’s promises to you. Nobody can make you do it.

-Terri Savelle Foy-

"I believe in my God's Promises!"

If we continue to hold onto what God has spoken to us and if we continue to stay in His Word then we will see the manifestation of the promise. “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us”…(2 Corinthians 1:20). Even when something God has promised seems utterly impossible, keep clinging to His Word because God never fails!

The first step is to know what you have been promised! We find the promises of God in His Word. Make a commitment to soak yourself in His Word, until you know without a shadow of a doubt, that He wants to freely give you the things you need. “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”…(Rom. 8).

The next step is to simply believe that we have received. What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them…Mark 11:24. What is belief without action? If it has already taken place in the spiritual realm then it is as good as done in the physical realm.

You will see the manifestation of the promises of God! God is not a maybe, sometimes, when He feels like it, sort of God, He is a God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever! What He did for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He will do for you!

-Jerry Savelle Ministries-

”Success has a simple formula: Do your best and people may like it”
- Sam Ewing -

”Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”
- Ross Perot -

”Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe”
- Voltaire -

”In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t ”
- Blaise Pascal -

"Fight For What Is Yours!"

If God has given it to you, then don't let Satan take it away. … the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God…” But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written…” Luke 4:3-4.

You’re not a loser anymore! You’re a winner in Christ Jesus! All you have to do is shake your Bible at the devil and tell him, “It is written, I am more than a conqueror in Jesus’ Name!”

Satan cannot steal from you any longer. Tell him, “You’ve defeated me for the last time! I’m the seed of Abraham, I’m an heir of God, I’m entitled to be blessed. I am entitled to health. I’m entitled to prosperity! I'm entitled to have everything God has put in my dreams. You’re not stealing it from me any longer.”

“Success is the willingness to bear pain.”

Don’t get it in your head that success or walking in your calling will be easy! If it were easy, everyone would be successful! Peter Daniels says, “Success is the willingness to bear pain.” Just because a door is closed, don’t assume it must be God closing the door! Daniels says, “Kick it open!” He tells a story of a guy who wanted a loan for his dream. He went to one bank and was turned down. He went to another bank and was turned down. Ninety-eight banks later, someone believed in his dream! Now, he’s made over a billion dollars! How many of us would have gone to 4 banks, been denied and said, ”It must not be God! I guess I missed it!” Your calling is calling! You don’t have time to waste! I discovered in my own life that you better learn to fight for your dreams!

-Jerry Savelle Ministries-

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

Happy Valentine!

“Ask and it will be given to you…”

(Luke 11:10)

God listens to every word you say. God wants you to be confident that He hears everything you say to Him. Whenever you pray, He always hears. When Jesus prayed for Lazarus to be raised from the dead, He had no doubt that the Father heard His prayer: "Father, I thank You that You have heard me. I knew that You always hear me… "(John 11:41).

In the same way, God wants you to be confident that He hears you when you pray. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of Him. (1 John 5:14-15 NIV). God’s Word is His will. Therefore whatever we ask Him in accordance with His written Word, that He promises to give. When you find a promise in the Bible that provides a solution to your problem, simply ask God and be confident that He hears you and will give you what you asked of Him.

-Jerry Savelle Ministries-

"It's the inner pictures you have of yourself that paint your destiny!"

When you ponder on negative thoughts, you're developing inner feelings and pictures of hopelessness and despair. Despair will result in an inner image of failure, poverty, disease and sickness. It is actually the very opposite of hope and faith. These inner images, whether they are of hope or of despair, become the blueprint of your faith… or your fears. This blueprint will ultimately control your destiny in life.

So, whatever you do, don't give up! Just dig deep, I mean DEEP, into the Word of God to start building your hope! Start to develop and see the inner image God has of you, not what the devil has being lying to you about! Change those inner feelings of distress and despair with the Word of God, and no demon in hell will be able to throw those negative inner images at you again!

It's the inner pictures you have of yourself that paint your destiny! The Word of God, when you dig deep in it, will begin to paint new and beautiful pictures of who you are and what you can do.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he… PROVERBS 23:7

Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there.."For we walk by faith, not by sight."

Cherokee Legend

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.

Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

“You have to look forward to where God is taking you. Faith is a process, God lead us one step at the time.”

God will always put inside you whatever you need to move forward. If you need strength, it’s inside you. If you need hope, it’s inside you. God has placed them within you because He’ll never ask you to do something that He hasn’t already prepared you to do. Be open-handed and open-minded to what God is doing in your life today. He has the right places, the right people, the right opportunities lined up for your future.

“Sometimes the things we fight against, the things we think are trying to pull us down, are actually part of God’s plan to launch us into a new season.”

Sometimes God stirs us out of comfortable situations and puts us in situations to stretch us and cause us to use our faith. We may not like it and it may not always be comfortable but God would not allow it if He didn’t have any purpose for it.

If you’ll learn not only to accept but to embrace it, God promises He will do a new thing in your life and His “new” is always better than “the old”! He will bring us through a journey of faith, that’s where we learned to trust Him and believe that He always knows what’s best.

“If you’re thinking, “Life would have been different if only I had this or if only that had happened, let it go! Let go of the “if only...”

Don’t get caught in that trap. Know that God is in complete control and He is guiding every one of your steps. Learn to trust Him. Even if life may not make a lot of sense right now, God has a plan. God always has another option.

When you trust Him, when you stay in faith, He will make a way even when there seems to be no way. He will fill your life with blessings and treasures beyond your wildest dreams.

-Victoria Osteen: Love Your Life-

"God wants to do great things for you!"

Good things are coming your way! Is that what you’re believing for or are you simply wishing that statement were true? It takes more than mere mental ascent to lay a hold of what God has for you. Faith comes to life when there’s intense desire.

If you really want what you are desiring for, then get a vision for it and refuse to let it go. Your imagination is your preview of upcoming attractions!

When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with joyful shouting; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad…(Psalms 126:1-3 NAS)

The Lord has done great things for us! If it is in His Word, then we know that it has to be true. God is not a man that He should lie! What a God we serve! Let us earnestly desire those great things that God has already done for us! The Lord is good and His mercy endures forever!

-Jerry Savelle-

"Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open."
-Unknown-

"What are you doing to stretch yourself? Don't just sit back and wait for something to happen. Take a step of faith and be a student of life."

-Victoria Osteen-

"When God created you, He planted inside of you His seeds of greatness. Everything you need in order to be successful in your relationship, on your job and in every area of your life is inside you."

Have you ever stopped to think about how a seed works? A seed is actually dormant until it is placed in the right conditions. You can have seeds for every kind of tree, plant or flower tucked away in a drawer for years and nothing will happen. Those seeds are full of tremendous potential just waiting for the right environment to grow and produce.

In much the same way, the seeds that God placed inside of you can lie dormant until they are planted in the soil of your mind. Open your mind and your heart and ask God to bring your seeds to fruition. When fear comes against you, His seeds will spring to life and give you the confidence you need to push past that fear and into your destiny.

-Love your life: Victoria Osteen-

"I am realize I am handpicked by God. I will live with confidence, knowing that I am valuable and have something great to offer."

-Victoria Osteen-

"There are treasures within you to discover in the depths of your heart.. When you find it.. you will see yourself with a new perspective and you will love your life in ways you never thought possible."

-Victoria Osteen-

"When we stay in faith, God always brings the right people across our paths at the appropriate time and season."

-Victoria Osteen-