““Jesus, I want greater freedom from living for people’s approval. I want to be able to respond to trying situations and people with grace and wisdom rather than reacting with irritation and fear. I want freedom to value and see in others what you value and see in them. I want to be quicker to pray and slower to worry. I want indifference to be replaced with good listening. I want passivity to be replaced with passion. I want to be free from the toxic shame that often paralyzes my heart. I want to know what stuff from my past still needs to be dealt with and what stuff simply needs to be left till the day of final resurrection. I want to be much bolder in sharing the gospel and much slower to share gossip.””
![“But he [Jesus] has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to…” quote by Scotty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/022/scotty-smith-1447_sacrifice_but-he-jesus-has-appeared-once-for-all-a_42599.jpg)
![“On one of those days, as he [Jesus] was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and…” quote by Scotty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d2/scotty-smith-1447_quote_on-one-of-those-days-as-he-jesus-was-tea_124826.jpg)
