The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Words reveal what’s in our hearts. If what spills out is too often negative, biting, caustic, or sarcastic, we need to ask God to fill the well with faith, hope, and love so that positive words come out by the bucketful.

That best portion of a good man’s life: His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

God has made Himself abundantly clear, but like Eve in the Garden, we question His motives, His authority, and His purposes. Satan came to Eve and asked, “Did God really say not to eat of that tree?” (see Genesis 3:1). The correct answer, of course, was, “Yes, but He gave us all the rest of these, and that’s plenty!” But the subtle questioning of God’s authority and goodness was enough to drive a wedge into Eve’s heart. Doubt grew, and she walked away from God.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

In those early days, God gave us wonderful experiences to confirm our faith, then sooner or later, He chose a more difficult curriculum for us. Struggles, disappointments, and misunderstandings about the nature of the Christian life threatened our fledgling faith, but the winter season provided the opportunity to go deeper and grow closer to God.

We face big choices every day. Each one may seem small, but together, they are steps in a direction toward God or away from Him, toward wonderful blessings or in the direction of painful curses. It’s our choice.

The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink.

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God’s perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.

In the seasons of the year, in romantic relationships, and in our walks with God, the beauty of spring doesn’t come without the dormancy of winter. If we develop greater trust when it’s cold and dark, we’ll experience more love in the warmth of spring.

The unlearned, the outcasts, and the simple flocked to Him. They listened with wide-open hearts, and many trusted in Him. Virtually all His miracles were reserved for these people.

When everything seems to be coming unglued, He whispers, “Stop. Be still. Listen to Me, and be sure that I can do anything that needs to be done.

IN GOD’S KINGDOM, many things are the opposite of what you’d expect. To be great, be a humble servant. To be strong, recognize your weakness. To be close to God, admit the darkness and depravity in your heart.

Comparison may be a natural thing everybody does, but people in leadership and in helping ministries need to avoid it at all costs because it feeds either insecurity or pride, not humility and trust in God.

But in the spiritual world, degrees and vast learning don’t matter. They don’t necessarily prevent insight, but they can easily get in the way. God values a humble heart, and He delights to teach those who will say to Him, “Lord, I don’t get it. Will You help me?

The Bible does say, ‘Pray without ceasing,’ but I don’t see where it says you have to stop working in order to pray. As a matter of fact, I believe that anybody who can walk and chew gum at the same time can work and pray at the same time.

On the day he was released, the man walked out the gates, turned, and to the astonishment of the guards, kissed the walls of the prison camp. “Here,” he explained, “I found God, and He found me, and I am so thankful.

Even in the most difficult times in our lives, faith is built by stopping and looking at the wonder of God’s power and grace in the expanse and intricacies of nature.

He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God.

Words are the visible clothes that our invisible thoughts wear.

,,Happiness is not something you found, but rather something you create.

The mark of true faith is steadfast trust in God when we don’t see what He’s doing or how He’s doing it.

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.

Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently.

Running your own race is doing the best you can every chance you get with what you have for a purpose that outlives you.

When we have the courage to say yes to God, He moves in our hearts to cleanse us, heal us, motivate us, and give us opportunities to serve Him. When we say yes, He prepares us “for every good work.

The warmth of God’s grace melts our resentment, cools our tongues, and replaces our anger with love. It doesn’t mean the wound didn’t happen or that it doesn’t hurt, but it means we choose to focus on God’s grace instead of our wounds and live in thankfulness instead of demanding justice.

IT’S A DELIGHT to be around thankful people. They fill up a room with their optimism, thoughtfulness, and peace. In his letter to the believers in Corinth, Paul said that such people act as a fragrant perfume that brings pleasure to every corner of a room.

Each day came forth from the hand of God newly created and alive with opportunities to do His will. We for our part, can accept and offer back to God every prayer, work, and suffering of the day, no matter how insignificant or unspectacular they may seem to us. Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments: this is the mystery of divine providence.

Things you say in a matter of seconds are never forgotten in a lifetime.