Quotes about Dependence

If we can't count on God, for crying out loud, who can we count on?

Lord God, Your Holy Spirit helps me in my weakness. I do not know what I ought to pray for, but the

We learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.

It does not depend on human will and effort, but on God who shows mercy. Romans 9:16

Lord, Your Word says that he who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe (Prov. 28:26). I've come to realize that I cannot trust in myself. My safety is in learning to trust in You, Lord.

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.

When we pray, we bring that power to bear upon everything we are praying about, and we allow the power of God to work through our powerlessness. When we pray, we are humbling ourselves before God and saying, "I need Your presence and Your power, Lord. I can't do this without You." When we don't pray, it's like saying we have no need of anything outside of ourselves.

Our decision every day must be to live a righteous life—not in our own strength, but by the enablement of the Holy Spirit in us. We must acknowledge that we depend on God and choose to live our life for Him. Even though we are a new creation, we still must decide to live like we are.

The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine!

No matter how far off the path you have gotten from the plans and purposes God has for you, when you surrender your life to the Lord and declare your utter dependence upon Him, He carves a path from where you are to where you are supposed to be, and He sets you on it.

We all need to understand that we can't "fix" or "change" our adult children. Only God can make changes that last in anyone. Our job is to release our adult children into God's hands and then pray