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God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile. -- Max Lucado
Jesus' love does not depend upon what we do for him. Not at all. In the eyes of the King, you have value simply because you are. You don't have to look nice or perform well. Your value is inborn. Period. -- Max Lucado
Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. -- Max Lucado
The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident. -- Max Lucado
The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control. -- Max Lucado
I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is. -- Max Lucado
The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children. -- Max Lucado
Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both. -- Max Lucado
God saw your entire life from beginning to end, birth to hearse, and in spite of what he saw, he still dreams of having you by his side. Even with your faults and failures. Despite your muddles and missteps. He still stands near, arms open wide, ready to embrace you with a Father's love. -- Max Lucado
The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG -- Max Lucado
Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while. -- Max Lucado
When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God. -- Max Lucado
It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew. -- Max Lucado
The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps. -- Max Lucado
Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek. -- Max Lucado
I choose kindness ... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me -- Max Lucado
Mother Teresa is credited with saying, "God didn't call us to be successful, just faithful. -- Max Lucado
God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what! -- Max Lucado
Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution. -- Max Lucado
When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door. -- Max Lucado
God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life. -- Max Lucado
And because we look for the bonfire, we miss the candle. Because we listen for the shout, we miss the whisper. But it is in burnished candles that God comes, and through whispered promises he speaks: "When you doubt, look around; I am closer than you think. -- Max Lucado
Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness? -- Max Lucado
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy. -- Max Lucado
You can. With God's help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be. -- Max Lucado
Perhaps he singles out one person to show the others what he can do. -- Max Lucado
the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven. -- Max Lucado
Like Joseph, you've been dumped into the pit. And, like Joseph, you choose to heed the call of God on your life. It's not easy. You're tempted to get even. But you choose instead to ponder your destiny. -- Max Lucado
Let grace microwave your cold heart. "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). When you do, you'll find yourself joining the ranks of the truly wealthy. You'll be rich with grace. -- Max Lucado
Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff. -- Max Lucado
God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory. -- Max Lucado
Human love is emotional. Feelings dominate a human's love landscape. We feel as though we're in love, or we don't feel as though we're in love. Hormones, sleeplessness, wory, past hurts, Mexican food
all complicate these emotions. -- Max Lucado
Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective. -- Max Lucado
You can endure change by pondering His permanence. -- Max Lucado
The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today. -- Max Lucado
Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship. -- Max Lucado
Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere. -- Max Lucado
There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself. -- Max Lucado
When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you. -- Max Lucado
If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need. -- Max Lucado
You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes. -- Max Lucado
God gets it. When you reach out to him, he's not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh - he speaks every language. He understands. -- Max Lucado
I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp. -- Max Lucado
December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone. -- Max Lucado
Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living. -- Max Lucado
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid. -- Max Lucado
The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason: to teach you to trust God to trump evil. What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good. -- Max Lucado
This is the loneliest point in history. The last moment of true abandonment. From here on, abandonment is nothing more than a myth. And loneliness? A choice. -- Max Lucado
Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same. -- Max Lucado
Personally? I think there's more going on around us than we realize. I think God uses even the bad and ugly things in this world to lead us to a good place. -- Max Lucado
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary. -- Max Lucado
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. -- Max Lucado
Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary's finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that's what love does. It puts the beloved before itself. -- Max Lucado
One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way. -- Max Lucado
Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true. -- Max Lucado
God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His -- Max Lucado
Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. -- Max Lucado
Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children & battle addictions & as a result, face fears. Its not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm; an unstirred Christ. -- Max Lucado
Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio. -- Max Lucado
We're grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days? -- Max Lucado
All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]? -- Max Lucado
To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him. -- Max Lucado
God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer. -- Max Lucado
Words are powerful. If you've been on the other end of stinging criticism, you know what I mean. Will one positive remark transform your family? Probably not. But keep it up. No one can resist the power of encouragement. -- Max Lucado
Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work. -- Max Lucado
One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king. -- Max Lucado
When it comes to Christ, you've got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don't play games with him. -- Max Lucado
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. -- Max Lucado
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint. -- Max Lucado
When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment. -- Max Lucado
Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess. -- Max Lucado
Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will. -- Max Lucado
The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood. -- Max Lucado
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves."1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift. -- Max Lucado
I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have. -- Max Lucado
It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less. -- Max Lucado
God owns everything and gives us all things to enjoy. He is a good shepherd to us, his little flock. Trust him, not stuff. Move from the fear of scarcity to the comfort of provision. Less hoarding, more sharing. "Do good . . . be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share. -- Max Lucado
Every quarter of a century an angel has touched one candle. Every prayer that was offered over the candle was answered. The Christmas Candle has become legendary. -- Max Lucado
When your tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How -- Max Lucado
Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care. -- Max Lucado
Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations. -- Max Lucado
Imagine Jesus today: He is leaning over, bending down close to someone who is hurt. He's listening. His eyes fill with tears as He hears that person's troubles. Then His hand gently brushes away a tear. He was hurt once too. He understands. -- Max Lucado
And that he, who can dig the Grand Canyon with his pinkie, thinks you're worth his death on Roman timber. Christ is the reward of Christianity. -- Max Lucado
Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence. -- Max Lucado
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks. -- Max Lucado
My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors. -- Max Lucado
Ponder this the next time your world goes from calm to chaos ... . Jesus knows how you feel. -- Max Lucado
You were deliberately planned, specially gifted, and lovingly placed on this earth by God. In a world that decides your worth by the clothes you wear or the sports you play, let me tell you something - you are valuable because God created you. -- Max Lucado
Thank you, God. For the jam on our toast and the milk on our cereal. For the blanket that calms us and the joke that delights us and the warm sun that reminds us of God's love. -- Max Lucado
Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains. -- Max Lucado
God's love never ceases. Never ... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases. -- Max Lucado
Down to Egypt. Just a few hours ago Joseph's life was looking up. -- Max Lucado
A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you'll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christmas. Let's present the world with the greatest gift of all: Jesus. -- Max Lucado
JESUS WASHES OUR FEET FOR TWO REASONS. The first is to give us mercy; the second is to give us a message, and that message is simply this: Jesus offers unconditional grace; we are to offer unconditional grace. -- Max Lucado
By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans. -- Max Lucado
If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them. -- Max Lucado
Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant. -- Max Lucado
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. -- Max Lucado
When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE. -- Max Lucado
My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story. -- Max Lucado
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. -- Max Lucado
Are you feeling exposed to the storms of life? Read Psalm 91, a wonderful promise from God. When we love him and tell others about that love, he moves to protect us. "I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them" (v. 15 NLT). -- Max Lucado
You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect. -- Max Lucado
He wants to hear from us, even when our words are little more than angry arrows. Talking about it is the first step to healing. -- Max Lucado
God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach. -- Max Lucado
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly. -- Max Lucado
Ask God for a special alertness to sense moments in this day when you can clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Thank the Lord for each person who has demonstrated one of those character traits of Jesus in your life. -- Max Lucado
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is. -- Max Lucado
Seek beauty and miss love.
But seek love and find both. -- Max Lucado
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish. -- Max Lucado
We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore? -- Max Lucado
What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in. -- Max Lucado
God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you. -- Max Lucado
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning ... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you! -- Max Lucado
The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be. -- Max Lucado
The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more! -- Max Lucado
Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation. -- Max Lucado
The only mistake is not to risk making one. -- Max Lucado
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be. -- Max Lucado
Because of Calvary, I'm free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love ... No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. -- Max Lucado
I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. -- Max Lucado
Not everybody can create a foundation that's worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don't enjoy doing. -- Max Lucado
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor. -- Max Lucado
Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right. -- Max Lucado
Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment. -- Max Lucado
God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue ... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him. -- Max Lucado
Trust God on this one - the short-term pleasure isn't worth the long-term consequences. If you find yourself in a tempting situation, take Paul's advice: run! -- Max Lucado
Grace is a God who stoops. -- Max Lucado
Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention. -- Max Lucado
Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world. -- Max Lucado
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do. -- Max Lucado
First thought of the morning, last worry of the night - your Goliath dominates your day and infiltrates your joy. -- Max Lucado
Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior. -- Max Lucado
The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim God's plan and passion to save his children. That is the reason this book has endured through the centuries. It is the treasure map that leads us to God's highest treasure: eternal life. -- Max Lucado
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. -- Max Lucado
The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren't the first person to cry. And you aren't the first person to be helped. Read the story, and remember - the story is yours! -- Max Lucado
Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread. -- Max Lucado
Yet he never gave up. Bitterness never staked its claim. Anger never metastasized into hatred. His heart never hardened; his resolve never vanished. He not only survived; he thrived. -- Max Lucado
God loves you because He has chosen to do so. -- Max Lucado
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. Pick up the stone of the past. -- Max Lucado
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. -- Max Lucado
Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go. -- Max Lucado
Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him. -- Max Lucado
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. -- Max Lucado
Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person. -- Max Lucado
Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age. -- Max Lucado
Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives" (Rom. 2:4 NCV). The -- Max Lucado
What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday? -- Max Lucado
31Do not be bitter or angry or mad. Never shout angrily or say things to hurt others. Never do anything evil. 32Be kind and loving to each other, and forgive each other just as God forgave you in Christ. -- Max Lucado
God never prefabs or mass-produces people. No slapdash shaping. "I make all things new," he declares (Rev. 21:5 NKJV). He didn't hand you your granddad's bag or your aunt's life; he personally and deliberately packed you ... -- Max Lucado
A stronghold is a false premise that denies God's promise. It "sets itself up against the knowledge of God" (v. 5 NIV). It seeks to eclipse our discovery of God. It attempts to magnify the problem and minimize God's ability to solve it. Does -- Max Lucado
Saturate your day in His grace.
Entrust your day to His oversight.
Accept His direction.
Grace, Oversight, Direction
G-O-D -- Max Lucado
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that. -- Max Lucado
You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father. -- Max Lucado
Worry divides the mind. -- Max Lucado
Resentment is when you allow what's eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free. -- Max Lucado
Heaven is beyond our imagination ... At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity. -- Max Lucado
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. -- Max Lucado
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home. -- Max Lucado
Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again. -- Max Lucado
God does not play favorites. -- Max Lucado
How is your eyesight? Are you able to see beyond your problems to the goodness and love beyond? This is where God lives - behind the scenes, at work, arranging your troubles of today into a brighter tomorrow. -- Max Lucado
The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. -- Max Lucado
isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving -- Max Lucado
When are you most afraid? When the teacher hands out the test? When the popular people walk your way? When you think about the future? Even in your most fearful moments, Jesus is with you, offering a peace you can't find anywhere else. -- Max Lucado
I was raised in the greatest of homes ... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much ... he was a good man, a real simple man ... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. -- Max Lucado
There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer? -- Max Lucado
This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know what might happen. You might have a part in bringing Christ to the world. Grace -- Max Lucado
Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly. -- Max Lucado
God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile -- Max Lucado
You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear -- Max Lucado
If Jesus heals you instantly, praise him. If you are still waiting for healing, trust him. Your suffering is your sermon. -- Max Lucado
Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers. -- Max Lucado
I choose faithfulness ... Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home. -- Max Lucado
If prayer depends on how I pray, I'm sunk. But if the power of prayer depends on the One who hears the prayer, and if the One who hears the prayer is my Daddy, then I have hope. -- Max Lucado
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance! -- Max Lucado
Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. -- Max Lucado
Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes. -- Max Lucado
Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics. -- Max Lucado
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can't trace his hand, trust his heart. -- Max Lucado
God answered our question before we asked it. So we'd see his answer, he lit the sky with a star. So we'd hear it, he filled the night with a choir. So we'd believe it, he did what no man had ever dreamed. He became flesh and came to live among us. He -- Max Lucado
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. PSALM 23:6 NKJV -- Max Lucado
My conversations with Trump supporters have left me with more questions than answers. -- Max Lucado
With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you. -- Max Lucado
Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and he will get us through it. Our -- Max Lucado
You don't have to live with a dehydrated heart. Receive Christ's work on the Cross, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship over your life, his unending, unfailing love. Drink deeply and often. And out of you will flow rivers of living water. from Come Thirsty -- Max Lucado
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you.
Eli to Punchinello (p. 25) -- Max Lucado
When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him ... When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless -- Max Lucado
What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life. -- Max Lucado
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do. -- Max Lucado
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' -- Max Lucado
How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time. -- Max Lucado
God has the final word on your life and His word is grace. -- Max Lucado
Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times ...
If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God. -- Max Lucado
It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect. -- Max Lucado
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? -- Max Lucado
When you look at all the mistakes you've made, you see a mess. Like the innkeeper, you just want to repaint it and start over. But God sees what you can't. He sees a canvas with unique possibilities. When he goes to work on you, the result is breathtaking. -- Max Lucado
To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd. -- Max Lucado
God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith. -- Max Lucado
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. -- Max Lucado
To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7). -- Max Lucado
You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family. -- Max Lucado
It does little good to make the trip and miss the journey! -- Max Lucado
Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son's name I pray, amen. -- Max Lucado
So now, those who are in Christ Jesus are not judged guilty. [ Romans 8:1 NCV ] -- Max Lucado
Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter -- Max Lucado
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does. -- Max Lucado
To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more. -- Max Lucado
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith. -- Max Lucado
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes. -- Max Lucado
The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God. -- Max Lucado
Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His. -- Max Lucado
Difficult days demand decisions of faith. -- Max Lucado
Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity -- Max Lucado
You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have -- Max Lucado
13I pray that the God who gives hope will fill you with much joy and peace while you trust in him. Then your hope will overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit. -- Max Lucado
Though you see nothing, he is acting. -- Max Lucado
There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it. -- Max Lucado
But for me, I am anot afraid, because the worst thing that could happen is getting to see "my Father eye to eye. -- Max Lucado
Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.. -- Max Lucado
Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more. -- Max Lucado
God as Master Weaver, Master Builder. He redeemed the story of Joseph. Can't he redeem your story as well? -- Max Lucado
You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do, or what you have done, but simply because you are -- Max Lucado
We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes. -- Max Lucado
If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God. -- Max Lucado
Survival in Egypt begins with a yes to God's call on your life. -- Max Lucado
As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars. -- Max Lucado
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them. -- Max Lucado
Through is a favorite word of Gods ... [follow with] (Isa. 43.2) -- Max Lucado
We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift. [ John 1:16 MSG ] -- Max Lucado
I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control. -- Max Lucado
The problem with this world is that it doesn't fit. It -- Max Lucado
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation. -- Max Lucado
When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need. -- Max Lucado
Don't you think God can work however he chooses?" "I believe God worked, and the rest is up to us. -- Max Lucado
May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life. -- Max Lucado
I choose gentleness ... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. -- Max Lucado
But God dances amidst the common. -- Max Lucado
Your financial struggles have not gone unnoticed in heaven. -- Max Lucado
If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him. -- Max Lucado
GRACE
GRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God. -- Max Lucado
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice. -- Max Lucado
Each star, numbered. Each star, named! Like every grain of sand. Every hair on his head. Every trouble that filled his day. Created. Numbered. Known. -- Max Lucado
God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen -- Max Lucado
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours. -- Max Lucado
But I can't overstate God's promise: "Unload all your worries onto him, since he is looking after you" (1 Pet. 5:7 JB). -- Max Lucado
You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world. -- Max Lucado
God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. -- Max Lucado
Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey. -- Max Lucado
Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out. -- Max Lucado
Your difficulty, your disease, your conflict are preparing you to be a voice of encouragement to your brothers. -- Max Lucado
And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future. -- Max Lucado
If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now? -- Max Lucado
Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it. -- Max Lucado
Repeat it to yourself over and over until it trumps the voices of fear and angst. "The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in your, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over your with singing" (Zeph. 3:17 NIV) -- Max Lucado
But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face. -- Max Lucado
A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life. -- Max Lucado
Breathing is automatic for us. We need air to live, but we don't think about the process of getting it as we go about our day. We just breathe. That's how our relationship with God should be. Automatic. We don't think about needing to talk to God. It just happens, all day long. -- Max Lucado
Ageing. We laugh about it, and we groan about it. We resist it, but we cant't stop it. And with the chuckles and wrinkles come serious thoughts and questions about what happens when we die. Is death when we go to sleep? Or is death when we finally wake up? -- Max Lucado
Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will. -- Max Lucado
Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven. -- Max Lucado
While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven. -- Max Lucado
Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher"). -- Max Lucado
We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God. -- Max Lucado
You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there. -- Max Lucado
The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think. -- Max Lucado
If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? -- Max Lucado
Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow. -- Max Lucado
Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed? -- Max Lucado
Your enemies still figure into God's plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn't given up on them. They may be out of God's will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects. -- Max Lucado
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. -- Max Lucado
The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children. -- Max Lucado
It is only when we let go of life as we know it that we discover true life - the glorious plan laid out by God. -- Max Lucado
God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them.
He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you.
He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner.
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection. -- Max Lucado
Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf. -- Max Lucado
Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement. -- Max Lucado
Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers. -- Max Lucado
A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else. -- Max Lucado
I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer. -- Max Lucado
God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path. -- Max Lucado
Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens -- Max Lucado
God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy. -- Max Lucado
Be a doer, not a stewer. -- Max Lucado
Only God knows what's around the corner. Maybe we should let him do the driving. -- Max Lucado
In God's hands intended evil becomes eventual good. -- Max Lucado
Aren't you glad that God doesn't give you only that which you remember to thank him for? -- Max Lucado
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody. -- Max Lucado
The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles. -- Max Lucado
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. -- Max Lucado
If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance. -- Max Lucado
Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety. -- Max Lucado
Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern. -- Max Lucado
I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace. -- Max Lucado
What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God. -- Max Lucado
I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have. -- Max Lucado
We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive? -- Max Lucado
You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness. -- Max Lucado
We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words -- Max Lucado
Be fiercely loyal to one spouse. Fiercely loyal. Don't even look twice at someone else. No flirting. No teasing. No loitering at her desk or lingering in his office. -- Max Lucado
God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. -- Max Lucado
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut. -- Max Lucado
Next time a sunrise steals
your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way.
Say nothing and listen as Heaven
whispers, Do you like it?
I did it just for you. -- Max Lucado
Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. - RUTH 4:14 ESV -- Max Lucado
The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end. -- Max Lucado
Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder. -- Max Lucado
There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us. -- Max Lucado
You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate. -- Max Lucado
There is no separation. There is no chasm between you and the heavens. There is no divider, no veil between you and God's love. -- Max Lucado
You wanted to know how you'll make it on your own?" Manny asked as the sights and sounds of the lush Jerusalem garden gave way to the sterile hospital chapel. "You'll never know. Because you never will be. -- Max Lucado
Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before. -- Max Lucado
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. -- Max Lucado
The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take. -- Max Lucado
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. -- Max Lucado
Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present. -- Max Lucado
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy. -- Max Lucado
In a sense we're all children of God - Jesus is called the one and only Son. Monogeneo is the word, God's only "genetic" child. He bears the very essence of God. What we say about God we say about Jesus. So the promise rises and falls on the identity of Jesus. -- Max Lucado
To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether. -- Max Lucado
I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics. -- Max Lucado
Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much. -- Max Lucado
If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word. -- Max Lucado
There is one word to describe the night He came - ordinary... But God dances amidst the common. And that night He did a waltz. -- Max Lucado
What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness. -- Max Lucado
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. -- Max Lucado
Our lives are a little like a milkshake. Ingredients get mixed together. Some of the ingredients are unimpressive by themselves. Some - rejections, disappointments, failures - are awful at the time. Yet God shakes them up and pours them out into a concoction that is delicious and good. -- Max Lucado
Feeling fearful about tomorrow? Do like the disciples - spend time with Jesus. Talk to him. Read his words. Reflect on his life and love for you. He has power and strength like none other, and he's more than willing to share some with you. -- Max Lucado
Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God. -- Max Lucado
Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction - but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping. -- Max Lucado
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference. -- Max Lucado
If Jesus heals instantly, praise Him. If Jesus heals gradually, trust Him. When Jesus heals ultimately, you will understand. -- Max Lucado
Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There's nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion. -- Max Lucado
Moses preferred to go nowhere with God than anywhere without him. -- Max Lucado
Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots. -- Max Lucado
We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free. -- Max Lucado
For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. -- Max Lucado
You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut. -- Max Lucado
Look back over your life. What have you consistently done well? What have you loved to do? Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness. -- Max Lucado
28So let us be thankful, because we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken. We should worship God in a way that pleases him with respect and fear, 29because our God is like a fire that burns things up. -- Max Lucado
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not. -- Max Lucado
Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me. -- Max Lucado
When he finally confessed his immorality, he made only one request of God: "Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me" (Ps. 51:11). -- Max Lucado
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day. -- Max Lucado
His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal. -- Max Lucado
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can. -- Max Lucado
John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships: stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships. -- Max Lucado
You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people. -- Max Lucado
14He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains. 15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his love and for the miracles he does -- Max Lucado
Maybe your family is more drama than delight, more crazy than kind? I can't say that your family will ever understand or bless you, but I know God will. Let God give you what your family doesn't. If your earthly family doesn't support you, then let your heavenly one take its place. -- Max Lucado
A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks. -- Max Lucado
Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward. -- Max Lucado
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. -- Max Lucado
Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it -- Max Lucado
Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. -- Max Lucado
Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help. -- Max Lucado
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change. -- Max Lucado
Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments. -- Max Lucado
Truth is, we don't get grace. But it sure can get us. -- Max Lucado
In the Chinese language the word for righteousness is a combination of two characters, the figure of a lamb and a person. The lamb is on top, covering the person. Whenever God looks down at you, this is what he sees: the perfect Lamb of God covering you. -- Max Lucado
You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence. -- Max Lucado
Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us. -- Max Lucado
So you've made your Christmas list? Checked it twice? Before we get too carried away dreaming about the CD or Xbox game we've just got to have, let's be thankful for the One gift we already have - the best gift of all. -- Max Lucado
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world. -- Max Lucado
Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did. -- Max Lucado
When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him. -- Max Lucado
Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? -- Max Lucado
The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. -- Max Lucado
Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ. -- Max Lucado
The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers -- Max Lucado
God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days. -- Max Lucado
Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story. -- Max Lucado
You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you. -- Max Lucado
Ask God to show you specific areas in your life that require his special "renewing" attention. -- Max Lucado
I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church. -- Max Lucado
2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake. -- Max Lucado
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast. -- Max Lucado
What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's. -- Max Lucado
I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it. -- Max Lucado
The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God. -- Max Lucado
When words are most empty, tears are most apt. -- Max Lucado
When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you. -- Max Lucado
Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character. -- Max Lucado
Think you have lost it all? You haven't. "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty
never canceled, never rescinded" (Rom. 11:29 MSG). -- Max Lucado
There is no one God won't use. -- Max Lucado
And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words "God meant it for good in order to bring about ... " The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term -- Max Lucado
Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is. -- Max Lucado
Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something." -- Max Lucado
He gives us more than we request by going deeper than we ask. He wants not only your whole heart; he wants your heart whole. -- Max Lucado
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth. -- Max Lucado
God's great grace wipes out everything else on the landscape. It is not puny but plentiful. Not teeny but torrential. Not mini but majestic. It meets us right now and equips us with courage, wisdom, and strength. So hang on - the next wave is coming! -- Max Lucado
Mark it down. God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders. -- Max Lucado
And unless we look and listen closely, we risk making the same mistake. God's lights in our dark nights are as numerous as the stars, if only we'll look for them. from In the Eye of the Storm -- Max Lucado
Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God. -- Max Lucado
Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off. -- Max Lucado
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side. -- Max Lucado
When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. -- Max Lucado
I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace. -- Max Lucado
God is angry at the evil that ruins his children. The question is not, "How dare a loving God be angry?" but rather, "How could a loving God feel anything less? -- Max Lucado
either. ONE MORE THOUGHT A funny -- Max Lucado
Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action. -- Max Lucado
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. -- Max Lucado
Find something you like to do, and do it so well that people pay you to do it. -- Max Lucado
Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then enables us to yield to its transforming power. Grace matters because Jesus matters, and it works because he does. -- Max Lucado
He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you. -- Max Lucado
He does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose. -- Max Lucado
God doesn't manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use. -- Max Lucado
God dispenses his goodness not with an eyedropper but a fire hydrant. Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea. You simply can't contain it all. So let it bubble over. Spill out. Pour forth. And enjoy the flood. -- Max Lucado
God has given us peace in our pain. He covers us all the time. Even when we are out of control, he is still there. -- Max Lucado
Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself."1 -- Max Lucado
Let your failures refine you, not define you. -- Max Lucado
Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them. -- Max Lucado
When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well. -- Max Lucado
8But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners. -- Max Lucado
It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny. -- Max Lucado
Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people. -- Max Lucado
God seems less interested in talent and more interested in trust. -- Max Lucado
Don't be too quick in your assessment of God's gifts to you. Thank him. Moment by moment. Day by day. -- Max Lucado
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say. -- Max Lucado
I hope we win the game tonight." "I hope I pass my final tomorrow." We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It's knowing that he's in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him. -- Max Lucado
To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family. -- Max Lucado
If you concern yourself with your neighbor's talents, you'll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both! -- Max Lucado
God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations. -- Max Lucado
Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts. -- Max Lucado
David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it. -- Max Lucado
You are the only you God made ... God made you and broke the mold. -- Max Lucado
God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him. -- Max Lucado
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd. -- Max Lucado
Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace ... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy -- Max Lucado
No one can pray and worry at the same time. -- Max Lucado
Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured. -- Max Lucado
A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years? -- Max Lucado
Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. -- Max Lucado
Trust that God is in our corner. -- Max Lucado
Life is a gift, albeit unassembled. It comes in pieces, and sometimes it falls to pieces. -- Max Lucado
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! -- Max Lucado
Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power? -- Max Lucado
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. -- Max Lucado
Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours. -- Max Lucado
The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it. -- Max Lucado
But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention -- Max Lucado
Your home is your giant-size privilege, your towering priority. -- Max Lucado
(Reaching for the Bible on the end table.) There's an answer for every occasion in here. Like a map for life. -- Max Lucado
Wise is the man who learns the nonverbal language of his wife, who notes the nod and discerns the gestures. It's not just what is said, but how. It's not just how, but when. It's not just when, but where. Good husbanding is good decoding. You've got to read the signs. -- Max Lucado
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too. -- Max Lucado
The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating. -- Max Lucado
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. -- Max Lucado
God has no cousins, only children. -- Max Lucado
We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist. -- Max Lucado
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin. -- Max Lucado
Your requests change history because your prayers change God! -- Max Lucado
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. -- Max Lucado
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God. -- Max Lucado
Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired. -- Max Lucado
The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth. -- Max Lucado
Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it. -- Max Lucado
God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made. -- Max Lucado
The stone was moved - not for Jesus - but for the women; not so Jesus could come out, but so the women could see in! -- Max Lucado
Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night. -- Max Lucado
There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society. -- Max Lucado
No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God's love. -- Max Lucado
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship -- Max Lucado
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow. -- Max Lucado
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image. -- Max Lucado
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own. -- Max Lucado
Sunsets steal our breath. Caribbean blue stills our hearts. Newborn babies stir our tears. But take all these away - strip away the sunsets, oceans, and cooing babies - and leave us in the Sahara, and we still have reason to dance in the sand. Why? Because God is with us. -- Max Lucado
You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized - but brand this on your heart - you can never go where God is not. -- Max Lucado
Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. -- Max Lucado
Christ became one of us to redeem all of us. -- Max Lucado
First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell. -- Max Lucado
Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. ROMANS 12:2 NLT -- Max Lucado
Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice. -- Max Lucado
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful. -- Max Lucado
God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed. -- Max Lucado
The supreme force in salvation is God's grace. Not our works. Not our talents. Not our feelings. Not our strength. Salvation is God's sudden, -- Max Lucado
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia -- Max Lucado
As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own. -- Max Lucado
God speaks all languages - including yours. What language is God speaking to you? -- Max Lucado
If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain. -- Max Lucado
God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us. -- Max Lucado
You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. -- Max Lucado
When you have God, you always have hope. -- Max Lucado
Answer this: A thousand years from now, will it matter what title the world gave you? No, but it will make a literal hell of a difference whose child you are. -- Max Lucado
Life pulls us down. -- Max Lucado
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses. -- Max Lucado
Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. -- Max Lucado
His life is an example. I pray that God will heal Jim's body. But until he does, God is using Jim to inspire people like me. God will do the same with you. He will use your struggle to change others. -- Max Lucado
One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there." -- Max Lucado
God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them. -- Max Lucado
For faith with no effort is no faith at all. -- Max Lucado
Imagine that ... unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God. -- Max Lucado
He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love
(when God whisper your name) -- Max Lucado
Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first. -- Max Lucado
Worship is the thank you that can't be silenced -- Max Lucado
Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree. -- Max Lucado
A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever. -- Max Lucado
The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen -- Max Lucado
SITUATION False teachers have always blemished the church. The false teachers in the Ephesian church did not believe Jesus was really human. They contradicted Scripture while appearing to be self-disciplined and morally righteous. -- Max Lucado
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. -- Max Lucado
Failures are not fatal. It's not that he loves what you did, but he loves who you are. You are his. The One who has the right to condemn you provided the way to acquit you. You make mistakes. God doesn't. And he made you. -- Max Lucado
The secret of loving is living loved. -- Max Lucado
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch. -- Max Lucado
And when God hears your heart, does he not hear the still-beating heart of his Son? -- Max Lucado
Identity: smack-dab in the middle ... Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake. -- Max Lucado
There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less. -- Max Lucado
You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are ... -- Max Lucado
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel. -- Max Lucado
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture. -- Max Lucado
Jesus was robustly thankful. -- Max Lucado
Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed and thorn-crowned. When you feel unloved, ascend this mount. Meditate long and hard on heaven's love for you. -- Max Lucado
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. -- Max Lucado
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so. -- Max Lucado
It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul. -- Max Lucado
Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common. -- Max Lucado
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness. -- Max Lucado
God is too gracious to ask you to do something you hate -- Max Lucado
Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God." -- Max Lucado
Mark it down. You will never go where God is not. -- Max Lucado
God intended for everyone to be able to read and understand his Word. The -- Max Lucado
The cross, the zenith of history. All of the past pointed to it, and all of the future would depend upon it. It's the great triumph of heaven: God is on the earth. And it is the great tragedy of earth: man has rejected God. -- Max Lucado
Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone. -- Max Lucado
The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people. -- Max Lucado
What child, whilst summer is happening, bothers to think that summer will end? What child when snow is on the ground stops to remember that not long ago the ground was snowless? -- Max Lucado
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts ... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems. -- Max Lucado
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't. -- Max Lucado
Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it? -- Max Lucado
Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely. -- Max Lucado
To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast. -- Max Lucado
On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you. -- Max Lucado
Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become. -- Max Lucado
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance. -- Max Lucado
We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all. -- Max Lucado
Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it. -- Max Lucado
When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise. -- Max Lucado
Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next. -- Max Lucado
Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born. -- Max Lucado
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions. -- Max Lucado
As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you. -- Max Lucado
Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today. -- Max Lucado
The Lord is near to all who call upon Him. Psalm 145:18 -- Max Lucado
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. -- Max Lucado
It's good to have you back, David. We missed you while you were away. -- Max Lucado
God is near whether you sense His presence or not. -- Max Lucado
What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.' -- Max Lucado
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. -- Max Lucado
The parched soil of fear needs steady rain. -- Max Lucado
Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is. -- Max Lucado
You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims. -- Max Lucado
I choose goodness ... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness. -- Max Lucado
What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd." -- Max Lucado
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. (Genesis 50:20 NASB) -- Max Lucado
Sometimes God takes his time: -- Max Lucado
When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens. -- Max Lucado
The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become! -- Max Lucado
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something -- Max Lucado
We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. [ Romans 8:28 -- Max Lucado
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need. -- Max Lucado
Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation. We occasionally flip the switch, but most of the time we settle for shadows. -- Max Lucado
Find joy in the ordinary. -- Max Lucado
We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it. -- Max Lucado
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development. -- Max Lucado
The difficulties have taken much away. I get that. But there is one gift your trouble cannot touch: your destiny. -- Max Lucado
God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask. -- Max Lucado
You meant evil against me," Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its meaning to "weave" or "plait." "You wove evil," he was saying, "but God rewove it together for good."
God, the Master Weaver. -- Max Lucado
Lay claim to the nearness of God. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb. 13.5 NIV). -- Max Lucado
Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought! -- Max Lucado
Good days. Bad days. God is in all days. -- Max Lucado
If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace. -- Max Lucado