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We are never truly free until the grace, goodness, and mercy of God become a reality in our personal experience.
True riches are spiritual in nature, and grace has made us wealthy people.
When life is pressing you down, ponder the riches of divine grace. Discouragement will lift, and spiritual joy will take over.
If you are addicted to anything other than Jesus, you are still in bondage.
Unless you are certain of God's forgiveness and your eternal security, you are still in bondage.
The only way to be genuinely free is to fully surrender your life to the Son of God.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but a calmness and stability in the midst of it.
Everything we do that touches other lives either glorifies the Lord or diminishes His name in front of a watching world.
When we forget who we serve, we lose sight of why we serve, and we end up serving only ourselves. If we desire to glorify God alone, He must be the one to define our service. (Charles Stanley)
Holiness hardly ever becomes a reality until we care more about Jesus than about holiness.
When I am obsessed with being better instead of being consumed with God's love and grace, I become prideful if I can pull it off and self-centered if I can't. (Steve Brown)
We do not break God's laws; we simply get broken by them.
When God gives us the gift of obedience, God also gives us an acute awareness that it wasn't us; it was Him. We had very little to do with the obedience except, that we went to Him. And even that came by His bidding and through His grace.
If you feel no attraction to a God who loves you without condition, then there is something wrong with you.
Many of us don't live free because we don't believe in a God who loves us enough to give us the gift of freedom.
Once you know two things; His unconditional love and the truth about yourself, you will rest easy and you will be free.
What repeatedly kills our witness is pretense, not freedom.
The more I experience His love and grace, the more I want to please Him.
Freedom scares religious folks to death because a lot of ego goes into being right and righteous. (Steve Brown)
Too many Christians blandly accept the clichés of the faith without dealing with the complexity. (Steve Brown)
If you are a Christian, it means that God will never be angry at you again.
If you are looking for truth without mixture of error, read the Bible.
When a Christian leader acts as if he or she has a hotline to God, speaks from Sinai, and knows all, don't listen to that person; But even more important, do that person a favor and tell him or her to repent... like yesterday.
To think or talk in terms of my church or our church, rather than The church or Christ church; to consider only self or where you attend worship service as the place! is a sign of spiritual immaturity. It is childish and petty, and believers who are guilty of such talk and thinking should grow up, for goodness sakes.
In your conversations, in the books you read, in everything you do, do it such a way that you are constantly learning and growing in your relationship with Christ. (Charles F. Stanley)
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to God that made us!" -Abraham Lincoln-1863
Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what He is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored. (The Message)
A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant. -Stephen Charnock (1628-80)
Christian disciplines are conduits for God's grace.
Greatness in God's kingdom is not determined by status, but by service.
Because God is everywhere, you can pray anywhere.
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. -William Law (1726)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -Abraham Lincoln
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -Booker T. Washington
Submission to God's will is the softest pillow on which to rest.
If I'm forgiven without condition, you can't make me feel guilty, if God loves me, you can't manipulate me by threatening to take away your love. If God knows my secrets and doesn't condemn me, then you can't use my secrets as blackmail. If you have power and threaten to use it against me and I don't care, then your power ceases to be real power. Is there freedom in that? You tell me. (Steve Brown)
Christians are folks who came to the astounding truth that we're not very good people, but God is fond of us anyway.
Real boldness is just another name for nothing left to lose. And Christians who have nothing left to lose are the world's worst nightmare! (Steve Brown)
God's answers are wiser than our prayers.
The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails.
God's work done God's way will never lack God's supply. -Hudson Taylor
No one has the right to adjust the Gospel or revise God's plan for His church. Those precious things are not, yours or mine; They are God's. - Jim Cymbala
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. -Martin Luther
If you are obsessed with anything but Jesus, it will mess you up really badly. -Steve Brown
When life looks bleak and frightening, faith in God sustains us.
Impressive religious performance does not mean our lives are right with God.
Commitment to Jesus removes all barriers to God.
Faith submits itself to God's will and sets no limits on God's power.
Faith must be cultivated through spiritual discipline and devotion, therefore a lack of prayer demonstrates a lack of faith.
Faith is the evidence of God's choice, not the cause of it...
"Christ did not die for any upon the condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe." -- JOHN OWEN
"My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth." -Matthew Henry
One can be well versed in Bible doctrine, and still miss heaven.
Greater knowledge and greater opportunities only bring greater responsibility, which can if rejected, bring greater condemnation.
Perseverance is a result and outward sign, not the basis of salvation. A person who is genuinely saved endures to the end and will experience the consummation of his salvation.
"Have you ever been loved by a doctrine? Has the truth that you know made you into the person that you want to be? Have you ever been forgiven by the Bible or danced for joy after reading a book of theology? Have you ever been shown mercy and grace by a text or been hugged by a proposition? When you are lonely, does it help to recite a creed or to repeat the liturgy? Now, don't get me wrong. The Bible is God's Word, doctrine and theology are important, and knowledge about God is a good thing, but only insofar as they send you to Him (Jesus) to be loved." -Steve Brown
It has been said that worry is assuming more responsibility than God intended you to have.
The "old man" was condemned and dealt with judicially at the cross. Never once is the believer instructed to try to do anything with him or make anything of him, but always to reckon him dead, and to put him off.
We must face the fact that while, praise God, we are no longer "in sin," sin is still in us, and that though the "old man" is counted as having died with Christ, he is still alive and very active as far as our experience is concerned.
God has always used imperfect people to accomplish His purposes.
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. -John Calvin
What God begins, He completes. And its beginning is a promise of its completions. -Steve Brown
I will receive only justice or mercy from God. I never receive injustice from His hand.
Only the justified person can be comfortable in the presence of a holy God.
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. -Jonathan Edwards
The Christian faith is Theo centric. God is not at the edge of Christians' lives but at the very center. God defines our entire life and worldview. -R C Sproul
If you preach, just preach God's Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don't take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don't get bossy; if you're put in charge, don't manipulate; if you're called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don't let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face. (The Message)
God's purpose is not a hit or miss thing dependent on what we do or don't do, but a sure thing determined by His decision, flowing steadily from His initiative.
The Bible makes a difference in our lives not because we memorize it, teach it and defend it. It makes a difference because the God who loved, guided, forgave and cared for the people of the Bible when they didn't deserve it will love, guide, forgive and care for you and for me when it is painfully obvious that we don't deserve it either. So get out your Bible and read it, keeping in mind what I just taught you. (Steve Brown)
Human excellence, apart from God, is like the fabled flower which, according to the Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of Paradise. Severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden---sad while charming and beautiful, but dead. (Sir Charles Stanford)
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. (Cicero)
The Christian faith is not power without pressure, but power under pressure.
Laugh and dance in the freedom and reality of God's sufficiency and in His resurrection power; that becomes awesome in your weakness.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. (Bessie Stanley)
We can never be good enough, pure enough, or strong enough to earn God's grace.
Feeling ashamed and knowing Christ far surpasses being good and never thirsting for mercy and forgiveness.
The law not only acts as the tutor that brings us to Christ, it also functions as the glue that keeps us there.
When the law gets preached, taught, and believed without the preaching, teaching, and understanding of grace, then the freedom God would have for us, and the success that comes from that freedom---will go wanting.
Jesus called us His friends and offered us unconditional love. Jesus called Himself our elder brother. God highly values us and has adopted us into His family. That is our reality, and that is how God wants us to define ourselves.
Selfish ambition shows that we are ignorant of the real path to God's glory.
Our positions and possessions in life are from God; Therefore, we can't take credit for them.
God's power is seen in creation, preservation, redemption, and resurrection.
God requires holiness and in Christ provides us the means to attain it. We are righteous in Christ, because He is righteous.
To be a testimony to the world, Christians need to live what they profess.
The Christian life is simply becoming what Christ has already made you.
Believers are far more blessed when they focus on the spiritual rather than the physical aspects of life.
All of Satan's involvement in our sufferings and trails are under God's control. That means our success against him is also in God's sovereign hands.
God's wisdom is our source for understanding life.
I'm constrained by God's love, not by His Judgment.
Truth never fears investigation.
In Paul's writings alone we find the doctrine, position, walk, and destiny of the church. (C.I. Scofield)
If we want to be connected with a mighty move of God, we must faithfully proclaim His Word through the power of His Spirit.
As the Holy Spirit works in and through us, developing a consistent life of integrity and devotion to God, believers are able to avoid compromising their faith even when they are under duress.
God may change our problems through our prayers. On the other hand, He may change us through our problems as we face them in faith. Either way, our desire ought always be that God's will be done and that Christ be glorified.
By trusting God to lead and empower, frees us up to effectively share our faith with others.
When it gets dark enough, a little light is enough. (Steve Brown)
Everything that happens in life is an illustration of Bible doctrine.
The destructiveness of sin is overcome by a faith that takes God at His Word in spite of appearances and circumstances to the contrary.
Revelation demands obedience, and obedience brings blessing. As believers in Christ, our success is measured by the degree of our conformity to His character.
Obedience grows out of a heart for God. To know God is to love Him, and to love Him is to desire to obey Him.
To have a heart for God is to approach life from His perspective. True wisdom is seeing life from God's side, and this is rooted in setting our minds (meditating) on the things above.
God's disciplines are designed to restore a heart for Himself. Because God loves us, He must sometimes chasten us as His children to train us in the ways of righteousness.
True restoration results from being molded by the Word within rather than the world without. God has always had to work with a faithful minority who love Him enough to stand against the tide of the world system.
God never takes away the spiritual gifts He gives us, but they can lose their effectiveness through our neglect.
How do we gain spiritual understanding? First, we have to consider what God says in His Word, ponder it, turn it over in our minds if you will, and then we have to pray that He enlightens our quest for understanding....both work together.
We realize that obeying God's Word, yields the greatest joy, when we love God's will over everything else.
Peace rules the day when Christ rules the heart.
JESUS
THE ONE WHO SATISFIES
He is the living water who quenches the thirst of the soul...
The bread of life who feeds the hunger of the spirit...
The Lord of love who fills the longing of the heart...
He meets our deepest desires, fulfills our highest goals and supplies our greatest joys!
If you have been born from above, redeemed by His blood; you can rest in the deep satisfaction, knowing that because you have Him, you have everything!
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