I challenge you to shift the focus of your prayer.  Don’t spend a lot of time describing your mountain to the Lord.  He knows what it is.  Instead, focus your attention on the mountain mover—His glory, power and faithfulness.

– Bill Hybels

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.”

– Yogi Berra

Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
– Joni Eareckson Tada

Romans 6:11 says, “Consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God.” When the devil draws near, stand against him. Don’t take his lies. When he dredges up your past, tell him whose you are. He has no recourse to this truth. He knows who you are. He just hopes that you don’t, or that you will forget.

So prove to him that you know and remember. Tell him what 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind.” Romans 8:35– “I cannot be separated from the love of God.” And Philippians 4:13– “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Promised Land people think like this. They live out of their inheritance. They show the devil the new name on their spiritual passport. Remember whose you are!

From Glory Days