Made to Crave Devotional Quotes

“We can’t look to our feelings to determine truth. We must look to truth to rein in our feelings.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“If I understand balance, I will eat to live — not live to eat. I will enjoy nourishment, not gorge on empty calories. I will eat until satisfied, not eat to be satisfied. As Romans 6:19 says, I will make right choices that honor God and lead to holiness rather than constant indulgences that lead to defeat.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head, and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you’ll be ruled by what other people think of you.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“It is possible to rise up, do battle with our issues, and, using the Lord’s strength in us, defeat them —spiritually, physically, and mentally—to the glory of God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“God made us to crave—to desire eagerly, want greatly, and long for Him. But Satan wants to do everything possible to replace our craving for God with something else.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“I love my Jesus with all my heart, so why would I offer anything less than an ignited prayer life?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Rather than dwelling on wounds that leave us feeling emotionally empty, we can learn to look for whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy in life (Philippians 4: 8). When I park my mind and heart on thoughts that refresh me instead of ones that depress me, I am filled. Like the psalmist reminds us, “Taste and see that the LORD is good” (Psalm 34: 8).”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“God made us to crave so we’d always desire more of Him.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Will this choice add to my peace or steal from it? Remember, nothing tastes as good as peace feels.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“My weight loss goal isn’t a number on the scale. My real weight loss goal is peace.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“I’ve realized this isn’t as much about losing the weight as it is gaining truth—the truth of who I am in Christ and how I am made for more than this constant, self-defeating struggle. It’s the truth that reminds me a scale can measure my physical body but never my worth as a woman. And it’s the truth that God loves me the way I am, but He loves me too much to leave me stuck in a place of defeat.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“When I don’t have peace physically, I don’t have peace spiritually. I can’t separate the two. Nor should I.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Dear Lord, I want to wait in calm and patient expectation today. Please take my exhaustion and turn it into expectation; take my feelings of hopelessness and give me real hope. I want to stop resisting Your truths and start applying them. I will do all that I can today, and I will wait with anticipation for all that You will do through me. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Dear Lord, even though I don’t always understand Your ways, I can find joy in Your protection, Your provision, and Your process. I depend on Your strength to help me today. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Jesus is the gatekeeper for the thoughts I put in my mind and the identity I allow to sink into my heart. Lord,”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Dear Lord, help me to be courageous enough to speak honestly to You and to myself about areas where I’m giving in to compromise. Show me how to rely on Your strength for more self-discipline in my life — not for my glory, but for Yours. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Dear Lord, I struggle caring too much about the opinions of others. I beg You to please whisper words of truth into my heart and mind today. Protect me from both the bad and good opinions of others as I am reminded that only Your opinion counts. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“simple but very profound truth, “How can you let God down when you weren’t ever holding Him up?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Dear Lord, make me a courageous woman who isn’t afraid to pray this prayer over and over in the days ahead. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“God made us to crave—to desire eagerly, want greatly, and long for Him.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Don’t allow this thief to weaken, expose, or make you vulnerable. Don’t compromise. Refuse to accept less than the peace and abundant life God has promised you.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“We were made for God’s promises that lead to an abundant life of truth, strength, and joy.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. (PSALM 34:8)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1 THESSALONIANS 5:16 – 18)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. (COLOSSIANS 3:1 – 2)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“Do not love the world or anything in the world…. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the Father but from the world. (1 JOHN 2:15 – 16)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food

“I pray that you … grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ … that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (EPHESIANS 3:17 – 19)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food