Melissa Todd

Teacher and life long learner

[Jonathan Hayashi @jonathanhayash]

How do I pray when I don’t feel like praying?

1 Never depend upon my feelings
2 Use a prayer from Scripture
3 Recite God’s attributes
4 Thank God for His blessings
5 Be guided by a prayer list
6 Focus on the needs of others
7 Rejoice that Jesus is praying for me

- @DustinBenge

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

I often find myself suggesting to God all the ways He could surely fix my circumstances. But I’m learning that God loves me too much to do things my way.

His plan is always better even if I can’t understand or see it clearly as it’s unfolding.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshiping an idealized version of yourself.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

Instead of giving up because we feel like we still have so far to go, we can celebrate the small victories!

Big things are built one brick at a time.

Victories are achieved one choice at a time.

A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

When Jesus says to deny ourselves, he’s not instructing us to have no regard for our personhood.

He’s calling us to reject any “self” we have constructed & protected that doesn’t originate from the center of God’s life.

[Jon Tyson @JonTyson]

I cannot put into words how deeply satisfying life with Christ actually is. The vision of being united with him in love, having a sense of
purpose and meaning, a kingdom to prioritize, a way to forgive to free me from bitterness, a lens of reality with which to view the world.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Since God is sovereign and we are not, we will never have the control over people, places and things that we often would like to have,and that is a very good thing, because God is infinitely wiser and more righteous than we are.

[Lisa Bevere @LisaBevere]

A generation without convictions is a generation without transformation. Transformation is not measured by the truth we know but is reflected in the truth we live.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” — Micah 6:8

I take this literally, friends, very literally.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

You may lose things, people may walk away from you, situations may fail, dreams may fade, you may disappoint you, but your Lord will never fail you or turn his back on you, never ever.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

The Lord just keeps getting us through. I am in awe of his faithfulness.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Could it be that many of our disappointments are because God’s plans are succeeding and our plans are failing?

[Bob Goff @bobgoff]

Following Jesus means climbing, tripping, dusting ourselves off, and climbing some more. Faith isn’t a business trip walked on a sidewalk; it’s an adventure worked out on a steep and sometimes difficult trail.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

When you call your sin less than sin, you tell yourself you need something less than a Savior.

[Christine Caine @ChristineCaine]

Only God can give you what no other person can give you
Only God can be to you what no other person can be to you
Only God can do for you what no other person can do for you
Only God can restore to you what no other person can restore for you

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Spiritual disciplines are not about making you more precious to God. They’re about making God more precious to you.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.”-C.S. Lewis

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not.”-C.S. Lewis