You can’t have love without justice and truth, and you can’t have true justice without love.
I would rather believe and preach unpleasant truth than believe and preach pleasant error.
Following the rapture, the world will be in chaos – people in fear will look desperately for a world leader to bring peace. This is when the AC will rise to power. Remember! The only trustworthy source of protection was, is, and will be God Almighty, through His Son. Thank you, Jesus!
We must take the training wheels off of our faith and ride only on His blood. We must fully trust in our hearts that salvation is in what He did. Not in prayers, church-going devotion, Bible reading time, fellowship, or good works. Trust only in His blood!! Thank you, Jesus!!
Love is God’s nature, His quintessence. He Loves through and through. His love is sacrificial, self-giving, and transformational. When we live in Him, we are changed from the inside out and His Love pours through us. Are you living in His Love today? Do you believe it?
Twenty-first-century believers should be living like first-century believers, impacting our culture. We should be making a difference. We should be turning our world upside down.
Believers in the first century made a disturbance because they understood that God had called them to do their part. They took risks. They left their comfort zones. In the Book of Acts, we see their fearless preaching, their expectant prayer, and their willingness to obey God.
G. Campbell Morgan said, “Organized Christianity which fails to make a disturbance is dead.”
Mike Mason wrote. “He let us crucify Him to show us how much we push everyone away, even the Son of God. As the dust settled on Calvary, some of us realized what we were missing. We realized how much we wanted to love and how much He wanted us. And so we invited Him to come back and live in our hearts...and something wonderful happened. We began to wake up to how badly we’d been treating people and how much we missed each other. We began to want one another with deep, pure love. And so the church was born.”
God placed Paul in a position of authority over the Corinthian church. Yet the Corinthians looked down upon God's designated spokesperson. This may seem shocking to many of us two thousand years later, but I see the same type of behavior in our own churches. People complain, disrespect, and rebel against the authority God has placed over them as well.
It is impossible for the heart that entertains our blessed Saviour to have an over-abundant admiration for any earthly excellency. For it is the nature of the soul, upon the discovery of better things, to let the estimation of other things of less value fall away.
Richard Sibbes
"The best help a man can have in time of trouble is the countenance of God." -
Charles Spurgeon
The more we are occupied with God's goodness, the more careful we will be about our obedience. -A.W Pink
I have been greatly distressed of the soul because I did not suitably come to the fountain that purges away all sin. I have labored too much for spiritual life, peace of conscience, and progressive holiness, in my own strength.
—Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers
The performance of small duties, yes, even of the smallest, will do more to give temporary repose, and will act more as healthful anodynes than the greatest joys that can come to us from any other quarter.
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought forms of that setting.
- Francis Schaeffer
"There is always enough time to do the will of God." ~ Elisabeth Elliot
“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” ―
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
“Where Christ is in the heart by faith, and he takes up the affections, there is a low esteem of all the excellencies of this world.” — Richard Sibbes
"Ask the presence of God with thee, child of God, and thou mayest then descend into a lion’s den, traverse a fiery furnace, or pass through the iron gates of death." -
Charles Spurgeon
"Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves, but not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven." -John Owen.
"Times are bad. God is good." –– Richard Sibbes
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