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The Lord will provide.
I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior
Anything less than your best dishonors God
You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah
When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.
Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!
Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet
Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.
The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.
And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers
You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.
My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.
I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want
Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love
Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.
I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.
I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.
As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.