Whatever troubles are weighing you down are not chains. They are featherweight when compared to the glory yet to come. With a sweep of a prayer and the praise of a child’s heart, God can strip away any cobweb.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering
Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Unity
Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God’s strength in you.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Humility | Weakness | Strength
We will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Inspiration | Beauty | Circumstances
God doesn’t just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Grace | Jesus
You don’t have to be alone in your hurt! Comfort is yours. Joy is an option. And it’s all been made possible by your Savior. He went without comfort so you might have it. He postponed joy so you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering | Comfort | Hurt
If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Pain
However tiring our work may be, how could it ever be tiresome? How could it be anything less than a joy to serve the One who has given us all things for life, and enrichment, and enjoyment? Jesus, who suffered so much to secure our salvation.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Salvation | Jesus | Service
Like supernatural effervescence, praise will sometimes bubble up from the joy of simply knowing Christ. Praise like that is…delight. Pure pleasure! But praise can also be supernatural determination. A decisive action. Praise like that is…quiet resolve. Fixed devotion. Strength of spirit.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Praise | Joy
The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Patience
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances – things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Character | Circumstances
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desperate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering
What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we’re not only useful, but priceless.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Service
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Life | Heaven
Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Prayer
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn’t some broad, general outline–it’s a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Christianity | Sacrifice
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
God
It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Trust | Life
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Trust
Jesus is strong…but He’s also approachable. He is able to carry our load…but He’ll never make us feel embarrassed or defeated for asking.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Mercy