“If you want your life to flow more smoothly—if you want to be more productive, and learn to be more selective, and your prayers to be more effective—then live in the zone: Abide in Christ.” —Steve May
“Do you expect people to come to Christ every time you preach?” Spurgeon asked. “Well, of course not.” “That is your problem,” Spurgeon told him. Missionary William Carey said, “Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.” That’s what we need to do. Could God send another spiritual awakening to America? I believe that He could. I believe that He can. And I pray that He will.
Feeling helpless doesn’t mean everything is hopeless.
Are your troubles piling up and stressing you out? That may not change immediately! But, feeling helpless can change. The Lord is on your side and He can see what you cannot see. Trust Him!
You can tell a man who is filled by the Holy Spirit; he is all the time talking about Christ, has nothing to say of himself, but is constantly holding Jesus Christ up as an all-sufficient Savior.
DL Moody'''
Remembering what God has done yesterday gives us hope for what He can do today.
Faith Markers!
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” -C.S. Lewis
"Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly."
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing with God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word. -
From the beginning of my Reformation, I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures
Martin Luther
"When Jesus was so accepted of God that he rose again from the dead every one of us who believe in him was accepted of God too, for what was done to Jesus was in effect done to all the members of his mystical body." - Charles Spurgeon
In appointing particular individuals to be pastor-elders… the church marks them, both internally to the church and externally to the world, as models and representatives, in some reasonable measure, of what the church is and stands for.
David Mathis, Workers For Your Joy, 185.
To know God personally is to walk in a relationship with Him daily. He wants to hear from you, He wants you to know Him by His Word, and He wants to show you His heart.
Joni Lamb
It is not a question of what we feel, but of what God says. God's Word is always to be believed. Our own feelings are oftentimes to be doubted.
He who denies the existence of God has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. —Augustine
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason - I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Martin Luther
Grace sustains the bruised reed, binds up the broken heart, and cherishes the smoking flax into a flame.
In God’s economy, servants are the leaders, the meek inherit the earth, the poor are blessed, enemies are loved, the humble are exalted, the foolish things shame the wise, those who seek their lives lose them, and those who finish last hoist the first place trophy.
The pastor ought to have two voices; One for gathering the sheep; and another for driving away wolves. John Calvin
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against my conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
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