All the promises of God are “Yea” and “Amen” in Christ Jesus, and as He is ours, every promise is ours if we will but lie down upon it in restful faith.
~C.H. Spurgeon~
“Through the western window a solemn light streams from Mt. Calvary. Through the eastern window shines the light of the sun rising, the herald of a brighter day. Thus the school of Grace is well lighted, but we cannot afford to do without the light from either the west or the east.” —
Canon Hay Aitken
God's plan is bigger than your mistakes.
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“Sing in trouble, again because God loves to hear his people sing in the night. At no time does God love his children’s singing so well as when he has hidden his face from them, and they are all in darkness. …Sing then, Christian, for singing pleases God.” —
Charles H. Spurgeon
There is not a promise––not a word in the Bible––that is not ours. In the depths of tribulation, it will comfort. In the midst of waves of distress, it will cheer, when sorrows surround, it will be our helper. ~Charles Spurgeon~
“We are all strings in the concert of His joy.” —
Jacob Boehme
We dare not approach the Father except in Christ because of our sins. We first fasten our eyes upon Christ, then upon the Father. If Christ does not bear our guilt and reconcile us unto God, we perish! Before any man can think to stand before the face of God’s justice or be admitted to the secret chamber of God’s mercy or partake of the riches of His grace, he must look to the Mediator, Christ Jesus. ~Stephen Charnock~
“Look to Jesus, with all your sins, doubts, and fears; naked and guilty, just as you are, look to Jesus. Everything besides Jesus is a fallacy, a deception, and a lie.” ~C.H. Spurgeon~
Whether we want to admit it or not, we will all face the Lord one day. Will you receive the prize for a life well lived or will you stand before Him with your list of excuses? The choice is each of ours.
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“If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.” —
C.S. Lewis
We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another, but let us never be friends with one another’s error…. ~C.H. Spurgeon~
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family––the religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. ~Patrick Henry
"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars." Reverend Frederick Langbridge, (1849-1922)
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us. ~Jonathan Edwards~
Don’t forget. The real battle lies in the spiritual realm, where victory is realized through a relationship with the God who loves you.
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On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved as surely as mine shall be. ~C.H. Spurgeon~
“The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting…Faith never knows it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” —
Oswald Chambers
Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint-heirs with Christ. The ‘many mansions’ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be. ~C. H. Spurgeon~
“The devil makes it his business to keep Christians in bondage, bound and gagged, actually in their own grace clothes!” ~A.W. Tozer~
Rejection is the sand in the oyster, the irritant that ultimately produces the pearl. ~Burke Wilkinson~
Thomas Hooker, the English preacher who came to the new world and founded the state of Connecticut, lay dying. Gathered around him were well-meaning people who sought to comfort him. “You are going to your rest,” they said. The old preacher turned and responded, “I go to receive mercy.”
Thomas Hooker
To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures. ~Erwin W. Lutzer~
C.S. Lewis described a classic, modern-day conversion in which he too found himself “kicking against the goads:”
“That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me...I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms... who can but duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men.”
C.S. Lewis
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth, and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men. ~Oswald Chambers~
As the rainbow is our assurance that the world shall never be destroyed by a flood, so is Jesus our assurance that the floods of human sin shall never drown the faithful kindness of the Lord. ~C.H Spurgeon~
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