Author: Michael Becks

When God speaks, He expects us to take Him seriously.

Walking humbly and softly with God is serious business.

God is not interested in our own goodness.

Prove all things.

Unbelief at times is warranted.

Don’t tell God where you’re going. Ask Him where He wants you to go.

Christ is our hope of becoming a skilled peacemaker.

Problems are not a bad thing to have if they drive us to our knees.

How should we respond to injustice at the hands of the self-justified?

Insecurity can never be fully alleviated by the praise of human beings.

We get God’s help to the degree we hear from Him.

How much do we make it about ourselves?

It is no sin to say, “I don’t know.”

Waiting on the Lord is not merely waiting.

Are you afraid to launch out and put up your sails?

Trusting in God is not a one time act.

Learn to cherish the old rugged cross.

Some things hurt worse than others.

Jesus was not about self-actualization.

Blessed are those who have been caught by grace.

Even in corrective judgment, God’s mercies remain great.

Don’t let the judgment of man torment you.

When no one stands with us, will we still stand?

What stops the windows of heaven from being opened up to us?

When we seek God He brings us through agitation to peace.

The Father had an Ideal Partner in mind for His Son.

There is an internal beauty that only increases with time.

God has special plans for the rejected, unwanted, and despised.

God loves to resurrect our dreams.

The trials you face and the temptations you feel are meant to drive you to God.

God indeed “changes not,” but not as the Greeks supposed.

The Son of God cannot and will not share the stage.

There is a time to search for answers and there is a time to call off our search and find peace.

Never think that service for God will keep you.

If you would stay a friend of God you must realize that the world is not your friend.

God’s true spokesmen speak for God; false prophets speak for themselves.

Is it wrong to want to be appreciated and praised for the “good” you see in yourself?

When anyone becomes untethered from God their descent into evil knows no bounds.

There are times when we must walk through a valley of sorrow and tears.

Until we are ready to “wear the yoke” we are only playing at being a true Christian.

Get ready to endure hardness as a good soldier of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Despite how humiliating a fall may be, restoration is always possible.

If we would pursue peace with all men, we must cherish humility.

Self-love is the pre-eminent sign that apostasy is around the corner.

Our liberation is not an entrance into being “who we are.”

We can cease from sin, but we cannot cease from temptation.

The business of our lives is to know and understand God, not men.

Be patient enough to see the “end of a thing” that God has in store for you.

Having a real heart to heart with God will do your heart good.

Keep going, and keep growing.

We can reach for a corruptible or incorruptible crown.

The future God has for you depends on how well you are listening to Him today.

Jesus may not be all we want; but He is all we truly need.

Those who put their trust in the Lord will never be disappointed.

There is a right way and wrong way to go about things.

Don’t be the star of your story.

Let’s be done with experiencing those things which our God hates.

God is more interested in pardoning us than punishing us.

What would God have us do when we’re getting burnt out?

The best seed can only grow in earth that receives it.

Bless others and you will be blessed.

Do we believe God knows what is in our best interest better than we do?

Whatever humbles us is good.

We need to leave many things alone.

Don’t return to your former bondage.

The beautiful thing about obedience is what you discover on the other side.

Why don’t we tolerate others suffering well?

Disappoint the tempter.

Have you gotten your marching orders from the Lord or from men?

God sorrows when He is prevented from giving.

Those who are hard on others end up troubling themselves more than anyone else.

When you’d give up on others, remember God didn’t give up on you.

Stay planted until God uproots you.

There is no room for pride in the Christian life.

Look beyond the temporal to the eternal.

We can know so much and be entirely unknown in heaven.

Beware of an obsession with injustice.

Be in a hurry for nothing except to obey God.

Where temperance is practiced inwardly, patience will be seen outwardly.

Let’s not pretend to be somewhere we are not.

The consequence of spurning God’s counsel is severe.

Let evil know that it is unwelcome in a holy house.

Being transparent before God is the first step toward letting Him heal us.

If we stay little in our own sight, we will stay big in God’s sight.

As man’s self-love increases so does his retaliatory and vengeful spirit.

The further we travel with God the deeper His work becomes to make our way perfect.

Focus less on your destination, and more on what He wants of you.

Is our pleasure and our pain all that matters to us?

Press toward the life God so much wants to give you.

Is there anything more needed in our day than patience?

Don’t expect the “great” to rebuke the “great.”

Bridling our tongue starts with knowing how to rule our spirit.

God didn’t ask us what we wanted; He gave us what we needed.

We can mistake human approval for God’s approval.

Don’t let your joy depend on a better tomorrow.

We can’t afford to let our heart be untended.

Simple exhortations to “let it go” or “get over it” don’t work.

What should we do when the god of this world comes knocking?

All true healing comes from God.

There is only one thing that we needed in this life.

True godliness is proven in a lawless day when evil is called good.

We need God far, far more than we need each other.

Stop trying to be so strong.

God knows the value of the wilderness more than we do.

Being faithful in God’s eyes matters more than being great in man’s eyes.

Tribulations are the indispensable means for God to work patience in our life.

What attracts men does not attract God.

Christ never intended for the church to point to the church.

You don’t have to be swept away by any out of control passion.

Life can make us sick; but joy is the medicine that keeps us going.

May we get outside the confines of our narrow inner world.

The gentle are those who have God’s strength to wait.

We cannot hate someone and have fellowship with God.

God runs toward us when we make any movement toward Him.

Beware of a bitter spirit toward your Maker.

At times we can feel so weighed down in our spirit that we don’t want to go forward.

The Holy Spirit is God’s “firefighter.”

Peace is a prize we must fight for.

Without forgiveness our spirit is forever wounded.

If you are going to endure hard things, God needs you to do one thing first.

When others step away from us, God steps toward us.

If we will not give Christ all, He will take nothing.

What matters most of all is where we are going with our heavy heart.

Being in a love relationship with God is the ultimate human experience.

How should we respond to a new lease on life?

Give honor to whom honor is due.

Does God ever have to wait?

A fear of rejection can keep us from making supplication to God.

Defensiveness is the hallmark of the proud.

Beware of presumption.

Only what God creates in us by His grace is everlastingly beautiful.

What should we want developed in our life?

Keep believing that God will work through the love you show.

Beware of where your feet, and your mind, would want to wander.

We must be Spirit-led in our correction.

Fixing fools is God’s problem.

God knows how to exalt Himself.

The person who feels they are most above pride is most in danger of it.

Don’t be afraid of your weakness that leads to God’s strength.

We are not to glory in what we know but in Who we know.

Anger is a golden opportunity to share more deeply in the life of Christ.

Ministry to the sick should never be a ministry of condemnation.

Be where Jesus is in heart. Lay low with Him.

The patient enjoy the good fruit of every season.

God wants to bring us to mercy – but not before we get real.

Those who are always looking up to God never look down on others.

What do we do when God appears to be running late?

“I didn’t realize how profoundly alone I was until the Lord revealed to me His love for me.”

God doesn’t forget anything that is done out of love to His Name.

Jesus advocated against the mentality which gives in order to get.

Talking about love is easy; walking in love is a daily challenge.

What will it take for you to win honor from above?

Both ugliness and beauty can be revealed through painful trials.

Don’t think God will settle for easy religion.

Being an overcomer in Christ is not the product of having a “faith formula.”

What is it that causes one to spiritually starve themselves to death?

We can learn much of Christ in seasons of denial and delay.

Resist the temptation to set things right by your own power.

God knows what it feels like to be unwanted.

What God would do with us depends on our commitment to Him.

How is it that there are those who still resist Christ?

Ungodly man would be his own sovereign.

When God is our chief goal, He is glad to give us other goals to reach for.

We limit God when we tell Him what He can and cannot use for His glory.

God uses the most unsavory instruments to do His greatest work in us.

We can mistake abiding in God with being in His presence.

We should be the first in line to distrust ourselves.

Real love is expressed in commitment and consideration.

Pride truly causes the loss of one’s better judgment.

Christ had His cross and we have ours.

The love of God that wins a man sees past his fault to his need.

God’s Word has not become outdated and has no need for revision.

There is a provision in God for the most disturbing of circumstances.

Jesus came to usher us into the same full experience He had with God.

Live a life that is awe-inspiring to angels.

Our greatest battles are fought in our mind.

Examining ourselves is vital in escaping hypocrisy.

Grace does not give us a license to “safely” sin.

Beware of a “made up mind” when you are not seeking God.

There is a difference between purpose and godly direction.

People need to see in us is a life of devotion that mirrors the life of Jesus.

Do we even need one other person than God to love us?

Our salvation is not merely a ticket to heaven.

What fuels our itch to know?

Satan still seeks to dupe Christ’s Body.

Every minister of God must overcome discouragement.

Don’t be afraid of God-ordained darkness.

We must serve notice on the devil.

The backs of men can be endured when we are living before the face of God.

Only what God creates in us by His grace is beautiful.

Our calling is to love imperfect people.

We flee God because we flee godliness.

You cannot live for God and yourself.

Don’t let your righteousness be a figment of your own imagination.

We need a finer ability to discern between what is of our spirit and what is of His Spirit.

Do yourself a favor: pray, before you speak.

Have you been dumped by a religious bunch? Jesus is looking for you.

Meekness is not weakness.

Who you choose to surround yourself with reveals who you are.

What will you need to keep you from being “exalted above measure?”

Show yourself only to God and He will surely show Himself to you.

If you would choose to be different in a godly way you must choose Christ.

Be glad for a day of obscurity that God has orchestrated.

We can bury anger, but sooner or later, we will have to face it.

Casting our cares upon the Lord is an act of self-preservation.

Don’t change for anyone but God.

Change comes slowly to the best of us.

God knows better than we do when all things are ready.

What is this strange itch to have others know “who we really are?”

Guilt and shame are not enough to restore a broken relationship.

“Loving yourself” is not the key that will unlock the door to peace.

Our own haste leads to waste.

God knows where He is taking us.

Take advantage of deep waters and fiery trials.

We grow to the degree that we can receive correction.

A “merry heart” is a by-product of abiding in the Lord.

Our deep desire for intimacy can never be met outside of a friendship with God.

Don’t be weary of the One who can revive your heart and make your life worth living.

Our God can keep us alive and thriving even in a dry and thirsty land.

God calls us to be led of His Spirit, not driven by our emotions.

God wants the reality of His presence to be greater than any other reality in our life.

We can torment ourselves with what we don’t know.

Bring your wildest thoughts and emotions to God.

Those who boast in themselves are left to eventually discover their inadequacy.

There is one thing which endures forever.

There are many who have stopped preaching Christ in order to preach themselves.

To walk in the fear of the Lord we must have an eye first and foremost toward Him.

There is a world around us that needs a demonstration of the goodness of God.

Patience is our stepping stone to God’s manifold blessing.

Make it the renewed business of your life to pursue and gain all that the Lord has for you.

If you plan on speaking for God don’t expect to be popular among men.

You don’t have to know now what you will know later.

God knows how to decompress our over-full hearts.

Do not despise the weak. Without Christ we are all weak.

God is able to change us at the level we need changing.

Have you ever been floored by the amazing love of God?

What witness are you leaving to heaven and to earth?

Give others their first dose of amazing grace.

God uses the deepest trials to deepen our abiding in Him.

There are times when God exposes to us how small-hearted we are.

Experience in God follows obedience to God.

What must God do to curb hastiness of spirit in even His choicest saints?

Disobedience leaves us spiritually empty and barren.

You, and the teachers or “ancients” you trust, just might be wrong.

The Lord can preserve us blameless in every evil day.

What should encourage us as we face a world filled with the possibility of pain?

Where would any of us be if our Lord acted toward us like a Pharisee?

When men’s voices get loud, let God’s voice be louder.

We have a limited time frame in which the Lord calls us to seek His face and get His help.

Does God always have to give us a good reason for why things are as they are?

Only the Lord really knows the true condition of our heart.

Don’t take for granted the comfort and consolation that God would give you in every situation of life.

The evidence of faith includes but goes beyond what we confess with our mouth.

No destiny is worth fulfilling outside of daily obedience to God.

The message of self-love is extraordinarily seductive.

Don’t let anyone tell you that God is silent.

We are called to love both the sinner and the false saint.

Do you really want to know what others think of you?

God can preserve us blameless if we will let Him.

Men are very bad at playing God.

To those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, every bitter thing is made sweet.

So much of our unhappiness comes through an unhealthy self-focus.

When we’ve been hurt, we must let God show up.

More than ever in this day, both men and women want to be worshipped.

God opens up with us when we open up with Him.

Never be ashamed of being a poor beggar before God.

At the end of the day do you hope men will extol you or God?

God would make us good while we wait for Him to do us good.

God works through our obedience.

The true prize of the Christian life is not a Place, it is a Person.

Don’t be weary in well doing.

God yearns to raise up those who can help others to see.

Beware of men’s feet. Even Gamaliel will fail you.

In your zeal for truth, don’t forsake mercy.

If we are to be filled with all the fullness of God we will delight in mercy.

God has shown us what is good and what He requires of us.

Why does God choose the weak, foolish, and despised things of the world?

For those who are in Christ there is no useless event.

The worship God seeks goes much deeper.

Beware of “little foxes” that ruin the fruit God would bring forth in your heart and life.

Trust Jesus to make you into a new person.

Man’s extremity has always been God’s opportunity.

Consideration is at the heart of love.

God has faith in no man, His faith is in Himself.

Do yourself and others a favor – hold fast mercy, let go of vengeance.

There is a joy that transcends the darkest night and most difficult day.

Never let backsliders convince you God came up short.

If we are to know the blessed life we must be givers.

Descent into darkness begins with rejecting God’s revelation of Himself.

Believe God, even for the impossible.

Doctrine should not be built on cleverly strung together “proof-texts.”

God often uses others to tell us just what we need to hear.

Our societies’ war on children has taken another sinister turn.

Why does life have to fall short of our hopes?

What does God consider true happiness and freedom?