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As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.
Sep 14, 2025
If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you
It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.
God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.
The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.
The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.
Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.
Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.
God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us. When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah
Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.
It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.
God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.