In Gideon, God called an unlikely leader as His instrument to deliver His people. His humble reply was, "O my Lord, how can I save Israel?… I am the least in my father's house" (Judges 6:15). The Lord's promise was, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites" (Judges 6:16). When 32,000 Israelites rallied for battle (Judges 7:3), God diminished Gideon's army to an unimpressive, outnumbered 300. "Then the LORD said to Gideon, 'By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you" (Judges 7:7). Gideon went forth by faith, and the Lord was faithful to His word. "When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his companion… and the army fled" (Judges 7:22).
David was such a notable man of faith. He faced the giant Goliath by faith. "Then David said to the Philistine, 'You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts" (1 Samuel 17:45).
When Saul wanted to destroy him, David entrusted the King into the hands of the Lord. "Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you" (1 Samuel 24:12).
The kingdoms we are to subdue today are the kingdoms of self and flesh, as well as the kingdom of this world (with its millions of bound and lost, who are perishing in darkness). The righteousness we need and that we proclaim is the righteousness of Christ, who lives in us! The means is ever the same-by faith.
Whatever means you use to get people into church is precisely what you must use to keep them. If you get them with a ‘religious circus,’ then you must keep the circus going––keep up the entertainment. If you get them with biblical preaching and teaching, then that will keep them and you will not need entertainment.
~Ernest Reisinger~
Some people have left churches that teach the Word of God for emotional experiences, miracles, and wonders. Churches whose focus is on these things will have to try every week to do something even more miraculous to keep people entertained––sad. I believe in healing and all 21 gifts of the Holy Spirit, but I do not like people misusing God’s gifts. They over-emphasize these things. As a child of God, make sure you go home and study what was said from the pulpit. If you are not doing that, you are a candidate to become deceived.
You don’t choose what happens to you, but you have the power to choose how you are affected by it. ~ Nona Jones
Take back your power through forgiveness.
It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
~George Whitefield~
John Bunyan had written on the inside of his Bible: “Either, this book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.”
Jesus didn’t promise the disciples that the journey would be smooth sailing, but He did say, “Let us cross over to the other side” (Mark 4:35 NLT). In the same way, the Bible says that God will complete the work He has begun in you (see Philippians 1:6). You will reach the other side.
It’s so easy to get distracted. Some have said that if the devil can’t disrupt your purpose by shaking your faith, he’ll just make you too busy to do what God wills for you. Let’s stay focused!
Everything has become new—including the wineskins of your heart, ready to be filled with a fresh, healing anointing of the Holy Spirit.
It’s better to be with Jesus in any circumstance than to be anywhere else without Him.
The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics... God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for unless the Church will take the right ground... It seems sometimes as if the foundations of the nation are becoming rotten, and Christians seem to act as if they think God does not see what they do in politics. ~ Charles Finney
God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good, so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men, and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. ~ Noah Webster
The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. ~ Samuel Adams
"Even those who sincerely love the Master sometimes wander, and we all need to take heed lest there be in any of us an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God." -
Charles Spurgeon
"If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preach that sermon." -John Calvin.
Whatever we enjoy here, yet still to depart hence and to be with Christ shall be far better -
John Owen
Christians spend more time fretting about what the minister should do than praying for God‘s direction in their own lives. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:292
The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say. Charles Spurgeon
"When I feel my love to Christ, which is but God’s love to Christ, burning within my soul, then I glory in tribulation, for the power of God shall be through these afflictions made manifest in me." - Charles Spurgeon
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