"You
will eventually find God, whether you want to or not."
- unknown origin
"If
God allows the United States to continue unpunished, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah
an apology."
- Billy
Graham
"Even
Darwin's a believer now."
- from a
bumper sticker
"If
you live like there's no God, you'd better be right."
- from a
bumper sticker
"He
who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses
faith, loses all."
- author
unknown.
If your life consistently
bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some
fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God
will invite you to abide more deeply with
Him. [Bruce
Wilkinson]
As I follow Jesus one
day at a time, He will keep me in the center of God's will.
Jesus is my way, I
don't need any other road map.
Look to see what God
says and how He works in the Scriptures. Make your decisions and evaluate your
experiences based on biblical principles.
The Bible is my guide
for faith and practice.
The freest person in
the world is one with an open heart, a broken spirit, and a new direction in
which to travel.
I come to know Christ
by experience as I obey Him and He accomplishes His work through me. [Henry
Blackaby]
God will look for and
reward faithfulness whether the person has been given responsibility for little
or much.
Don't measure your life
by the world's standards.
If you feel weak,
limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
The Lord's mercy often
rides to the door of our heart upon the back of affliction. [Charles Sprugeon]
To know and do the will
of God, you must deny self, pick up your cross, and follow Jesus.
Understanding what God
is about to do where you are is more important than telling God what you want to
do for Him. [Henry Blackaby]
I seek the will of the
Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and
the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay
myself open to great delusions. If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it
according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. [George Mueller]
God speaks by the Holy
Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal
Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
Knowing God's voice
comes from an intimate love relationship with Him.
Christ has a right to
interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the
right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.
Everything God says and
does is an expression of His love.
God did not create you
for time; He created you for eternity.
God takes the
initiative, He chooses us, loves us, and reveals His eternal purposes for our
lives.
God's commands are
designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not
believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You
cannot love Him unless you know Him. [Henry Blackaby]
Remember God doesn't
call the equipped, He equips the called.
The test of any man's
commitment to God is determined by his devotion to Christ.
God is no faultfinder,
always looking for things to condemn in us. He estimates us at our best, not our
worst. [Oswald Chambers]
You can draw upon the
infinite resources of God in prayer with the certainty that He will hear and
answer if you are a believer in Christ.
We base our present
lives and future destines on invisible realities. It has always been that way
for believers in Christ.
We need to know God's
Word before we can share it with others.
The grace of God is
infinite and eternal. As it had no beginning, so it can have no end, and being
an attribute of God, it is as boundless as infinitude. [A.W. Tozer]
God giveth His wrath by
weight, but His mercy without measure. [Sir. Thomas Fuller]
God's love for poor
sinners is very wonderful, but God's patience with ill-natured saints is a
deeper mystery. [Henry Drummond]
Christianity can be
condensed into four words: admit, submit, commit, and transmit. [Samuel
Wilberforce]
Christianity is not
devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a person, the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Lord promised a
cross and scars, not medals, down here. The honors are given out later. [Vance
Havner]
To take up the cross
means that you take your stand for the Lord Jesus no matter what it cost. [Billy
Graham]
The cross has revealed
to good men that their goodness has not been good enough. [Johann H. Schroeder]
Religions are man's
search for God, the gospel is God's search for man. There are many religions,
but one gospel. [E. Stanley Jones]
Conviction is rooted in
the mind. Repentance is rooted in the heart.
Resist evil and believe
that God will give you the victory.
The Lord always enables
people to do the task that He calls them to do. His calling is His enabling.
Weak faith is better
than great faith in the wrong object. [Richard Tucker]
Nails didn't hold Jesus
to the cross; love did.
Live in Christ and the
flesh need not fear death. [John Knox]
Here is the test to
find whether your mission on earth is finished: if your alive, it isn't.
[Richard Bach]
Witnessing is not
something we do, it is something we are.
Salvation is a helmet,
not a nightcap. [Vance Havner]
There is a joy that
comes from obedience to the Lord that surpasses all other pleasurable emotions.
[William MacDonald]
No
one can go back and make a brand new start, But anyone can start from now and
make a brand new ending.
God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, But He did promise strength for the
day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
Disappointments are like speed bumps, They slow you
down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards. Don't stay on the bumps too long. Move on!
When you feel down because you didn't get what you want, Just sit tight and be happy, because God has thought of something better to give
you.
When something happens to you, good or bad, consider
what it means. There's a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh
more or not to cry too hard.
You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved,
The rest is up to the person to realize your worth.
A man may be faithful,
but his sinful nature travels with him.
Bitterness is like
drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Upon a life I did not
live; upon a death I did not die; upon another's death, another's life, I risk
my soul eternally.
If you are heaven born
your heaven bound.
The whole bible is for
you, but the whole bible is not about you.
Worship is pure
adoration, the lifting up of the redeemed spirit toward God in contemplation of
His holy perfection.
Grace is joy
unspeakable, legalism is condemnation unbearable.
God does not call us to
disobedience, but to obedience and holiness.
An up and down
Christian life, is up and down because of an up and down relationship with Jesus
Christ.
The preaching of the
gospel; refreshes the saint, confronts the sinner, and glorifies the Savior.
For the Christian; Love
is essential not optional. Note! Love is a demonstration not an inclination.
The beginning of true
faith is the end of anxiety. (George Muller)
Precisely because we
cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. (C. S. Lewis)
My song shall be of
Jesus; His mercy crowns my days, He fills my cup with blessings, and tunes my
heart to praise. (Fanny Crosby)
As we search the Word
of God, we discover more and more of the riches we have in Christ. (Warren
Wiersbe)
Some things in life can
be forgotten without consequence. Forgetting to call upon God is not one of
them.
Diversity within unity
is the hallmark of all of God's creation, so should it be in the body of Christ
as well.
If you are saved and
know it; everybody you know ought to know it too.
Neither prayer, nor
praise, nor the hearing of the Word will be pleasant or profitable to persons
who have left their hearts behind them. (C. H. Spurgeon)
Those who run to Jesus
get Him and His love and forgiveness, eternal life and sometimes even godliness
thrown in. Those who focus on godliness get neither Jesus nor anything else.
(Steve Brown)
The Holy Spirit
interprets the Word of God to the heart of the hearer on the basis of what each
person needs to understand.
Jesus remains ever
patient with us, because He knows that He will bring to completion and
perfection the work He has started in us. (Philippians 1:6)
The Spirit of God wants
to live and work through you, energizing you, guiding you, and empowering you to
fulfill God's plan for every aspect of your life. It's a choice you must make;
will you fight a losing battle attempting to live the Christian life yourself,
or will you receive God's wonderful promise and let Him live it through you?
Anybody who has never
stood before God and been afraid, loved and confused....is worshiping an idol.
(Steve Brown)
Each day is a day that
God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.
Without Christ we
cannot live and without Him we dare not die. (John La Vier)
Only in God do we
discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance
and our destiny. (Rick Warren)
God designed us to
function best when we allow Jesus Christ's divine power to supplant our
weakness. (Charles Stanley)
There is no worse
screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. (John
Calvin)
The Spirit breathes
upon the Word, and brings the truth to sight. (William Cowper)
God commands us to be
filled with the Spirit; and if we aren't filled, it's because we're living
beneath our privileges. (D. L. Moody)
Every time we say, I
believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean that we believe there is a living God able
and willing to enter human personality and change it. (J. B. Phillips)
Asking to be filled
with the Holy Spirit means that you are surrendering all rights and authority to
yourself; you are saying you want Him to control you, to guide you, and to
exercise His will in your life moment by moment, day by day. When you make that
request, you will be absolutely amazed what God will do. (Charles Stanley)
Before Christ sent the
church into the world, He sent the Spirit into the church. The same order must
be observed today. (John R. W. Stott)
No one is ever free in
an absolute sense. We are free to choose what will control us, but we are not
free to avoid this choice.
What God begins; He
always completes, and the very fact of its beginning is the promise and
guarantee of its completion.
He makes our concerns
His and is always present in our lives. He is forever healing, restoring, and
renewing in His own special way...in His own perfect time. (Oswald Chambers)
When lead by the
Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be
silent as to speak. (Lewis Sperry Chafer)
Beloved, let the fact
of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the
same. (Oliver B. Greene)
It ill becomes the
servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord
was poor, and mean, and despised. (George Muller)
Anything that dims my
vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my
prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as
a Christian turn away from it. (J Wilbur Chapman)
We are not only to
renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let
out lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that
all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O, to live
consistent lives! (Hudson Taylor)
The best joys of this
world are shallow and empty compared to service to the King of kings.
God made you and saved
you for His service, and He enables you to serve despite the faults that tend to
discourage you.
Learning is a
foundational key to true discipleship.
True enjoyment of our
wealth comes not from possessing it, but from investing it as God intended, in
things that count for eternity.
The quite men and
women, laboring, faithfully but inconspicuously, accomplish the most for the
Lord.
There will be times
when you can't understand what God is doing or anticipate what He will do. But
His consistent record of faithfulness in the past should give you unfailing
confidence about the wisdom of His future plans.
When you get serious
about God, don't think for a moment that there will be no opposition. If there
is no opposition, then you're walking down the wrong road. (Steve Brown)
No act is to low for
the follower of Christ to perform in His service.
The Lord often chooses
the most despicable people of this world, redeems them, gives them new hearts,
and uses them in remarkable ways. (John MacArthur)
True salvation produces
a teachable heart in the believer. The desire to learn and change in response to
the Word of God is the mark of a true disciple of Christ. (John MacArthur)
The call to follow
Christ must always be grounded in submission to Him in repentant faith for
salvation from sin. Not to achieve some earthly benefit. (John MacArthur)
If you are a Christian
in a hostile environment that seemingly renders you weak....let your passion for
Christ drive your life.
The Christian race is a
marathon, not a sprint.
God is sovereign over
even the most wicked men and their most wicked acts. And in God's economy, their
wickedness does not have the final word.
I am not what I ought
to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not even what I hope to be. But by the
cross of Christ, I am not what I was. (John Newton)
Praise be to God, who
takes our sinful lives and transforms them to His glory!
We glorify God by
allowing His attributes to flow through us and by obeying His will in everything
we do.
It is better to be
humble in spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.
(Proverbs 16:19)
A gospel highlighting
divine grace and faith in Jesus Christ, does not eliminate the need for
repentance and godly behavior. Grace gives us the ability and desire to obey,
not the right and safety to disobey.
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