Charlyne and I want you to “get on with your life.” You do that by loving Jesus more each day, praying more, growing in Him, and trusting God for your every need. We want you to be confident that God will bring about what He has promised.
— Bob Steinkamp, The Prodigal’s Pen, p. 251-252
What matters most to me is that God had that son to begin with. And that he has other sons and daughters like me that he loves and doesn’t want to be parted from. That he loves his children as I love my own daughters, only more so, with a hot, knowing, parental love that says, “Be who you are, but love me back. Only love me back.”
— Patty Kirk, Confessions of an Amateur Believer, p. 8
“Nothing your prodigal, or you, are involved in right now has God wringing His hands, searching for a solution. We only need to allow God to be God….
“Nothing that concerns you is too petty for God to resolve for you.”
— Robert E. Steinkamp, The Prodigal’s Pen, p. 172-173
“Jesus seems to me to say:…
If I held my face to my testimony only till danger came close, and then prayed for the Father to deliver me with twelve legions of angels, that would be to say that the Father would do anything for his children until it began to hurt him. I bear witness that my father is such as I. In the face of death I assert it, and dare death to disprove it. Kill me, do what you will and can against me, my father is true, and I am true in saying that he is true. Danger or hurt cannot turn me aside from this my witness. Death can only kill my body but cannot make me its captive.
Father, thy will be done! The pain will pass. It will be but for a time! Gladly will I suffer that men may know that I live, and that thou art my life.”
— George MacDonald, Your Life in Christ:Â The Nature of God and His Work in Human Hearts, p. 46-47
“The Lord can turn your testings into a testimony.”
— Charlyne Steinkamp, Rejoice on the Radio, http://www.rejoiceministries.org/god_heals_hurting_marriages.html
“Ask God to help us think. Every morning, I ask Him to give me the right thought, word, or action. I ask Him to send His inspiration and guidance. I ask Him to help me solve my problems. I believe He does help. I know He does. But He expects me to do my part and think. Some days go better than others.”
— Melody Beattie, Codependent No More, p. 152
“One of the wonderful things about God’s immutable character is that we’re not going to tempt Him to sin when we take our negative feelings to Him…. Pouring whatever is in our hearts out to God dramatically decreases our tendency to grow bitter.”
— Beth Moore, Praying God’s Word, p. 235
“I wanted to make sure we addressed the importance of praying about someone who has hurt you because it is such a vital part of breaking free. Be honest with God. Pour your heart out to Him. Tell Him the things that hurt you. Tell on the one who injured you. Search the psalms to receive further permission to speak your heart, then practice it — from your own heart with your own words!… and don’t stop until all the bitter waters have been poured out before God, and He’s had a chance to begin pouring living water back in. ‘Trust in Him at all times!'”
— Beth Moore, Praying God’s Word, p. 239-40
“So what will happen with the poison that spoils God’s good gifts? God will either turn it into medicine or remove it completely. The gifts will remain – which are we ourselves and everything that surrounds us.”
– Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge, p. 32
“Forgiveness is not defined by a feeling, although it will ultimately change our feelings. . . . Forgiveness is our determined and deliberate willingness to let something go. To release it from our possession. To be willing and ready for it to no longer occupy us. God is not asking us to let ‘it’ go haphazardly into the black hole of nonexistence. Forgiveness means letting it go to God. Letting it go from our power to His. Forgiveness is the ongoing act by which we agree with God over the matter, practice the mercy He’s extended to us, and surrender the situation, the repercussions, and the hurtful person to Him.”
— Beth Moore, Praying God’s Word