Quotes about Dependence

Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness

Although I have these problems, I know that You, Lord, are greater than they are. You are my heavenly Father. You are a good God. In You is everything I need for my life, and I choose to exalt You above all.

God, I thank You that You always hear my prayers. Give me patience to wait for the answers to come in Your way and in Your perfect timing. Give me peace to accept Your answer—even if it is no. Help me to never take matters into my own hands to try and make something happen that is not Your will. I trust You know what is best for me at all times.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. PSALM 118:8

Dear God, help me to have faith enough to believe You will answer my prayers. Give me the patience to wait for the answers to appear. Keep me from giving up and taking matters into my own hands. Instead, enable me to trust that You have heard my prayers and will answer in Your perfect way and time. Help me to rest in peace during times of waiting.

We can all do this because we stand strong in God's power and strength, not our own. That takes the pressure off of us trying to do it ourselves. We just have to show up and pray. Some

that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by clutching them to ourselves and trying to parent them alone.

We can't ever allow ourselves to get into the situation where we believe we don't need to worship God. We must not think for a moment that nothing can shake us—that we don't need God and we can't fail. We must not have a false sense of security and suppose we don't need to pour ourselves out before the Lord in praise and empty ourselves before Him in humble worship. We cannot imagine for even an instant that God's rules don't apply to us.

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.

Because He knew that no matter what we did, we would always need Him.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.