until our faith is tested through challenges, obstacles, trials, and storms, it cannot be stretched to new lengths, deepened to new depths, nor grown… - Christine Caine

God took all the commands and laws and summarized them into two critical points: love God and love others. That’s because His love in us heals and transforms us — and His love through us heals and transforms the world around us.

That’s one of the great things about freedom. Once we’ve tasted it, we want to go back to where we suffered and help everyone else to taste it too — to experience the same hope and provision.

The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his word, he abides in you.