7 reasons to praise God today: 1. He knows you (Is 43:1). 2. He sings over you (Zep 3:17). 3. He upholds you (Is 41:10). 4. He cares about you (1 Pt 5:7). 5. He watches over you (Gen 28:15). 6. He guides you (Lk 1:79). 7. He never leaves you (Mt 28:20)
The work of the Holy Spirit is required for people to start out with God through new birth and justification. The Holy Spirit must also be at work in believers if they are to go on with God in growth and sanctification.
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon
"We are not our own, so we have no right to serve ourselves." — Charles Spurgeon
"The sermon which does not lead to Christ will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is a mutual delight in each other in the persons of the blessed Trinity so that each divine person delights to glorify the rest." — Charles Spurgeon
"You must be schooled in humility. When you are half-an-inch above the ground, you are that half-inch too high." — Charles Spurgeon
Men never serve God right unless they know that He is a gracious and merciful being. —
John Calvin, on Psalm 130:4 | Calvin’s Commentaries, 6:132
"Plant shade trees for others to sit under." -Voddie Baucham, to his kids, on multigenerational vision and legacy.
"They who can, and do not restrain others from sin, make themselves partakers of the guilt." -John Wesley.
There is in Christ rest for God's people, when exercised with afflictions.
The Lord desires that we mature and develop in this new life in Christ. Such growth in Christ is a spiritual matter. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh." The resources that we have all received from our earthly parents are of the flesh. These natural capabilities cannot develop us spiritually. The perfecting process (becoming increasingly like the Lord Jesus Christ) necessitates the Holy Spirit's working in us. Remember, the means God used to start us out with Him (to justify us) are the means He uses to grow us up in Him (to sanctify us).
We do not serve each other or our children well by allowing or enabling them to live in sin. There comes a time when a person needs to be turned over to Satan in order to experience the full consequence of their sin.
If you have fallen in any area of your life, take heart. Let God raise you up and know He will be your Light!
A Scottish theologian named George Adam once wrote, “Other nations have been our teachers in art and wisdom and government. But Israel is our mistress in pain and patience.”
Sometimes God’s Holy Spirit will nudge us to do a certain thing or go to a certain place, and we’ll say no. That is quenching the Spirit. Don’t do that. If we want another spiritual awakening, then we need the Holy Spirit at work in our lives, empowering us, and filling us.
Even when we don’t see God, He’s there.
You are never alone. God is always with you even when you don’t see Him or feel Him. Turn to Him. He’s with you!
Repent, Therefore!! And get saved today time is running out JESUS IS COMING SOON!! DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND !!! WE WILL BE RAPTURED SOON!!!
There is a day appointed, wherein all the men of the world shall know that God knew and took notice of all and every one of their most secret sins. —
John Owen, Works 6:361
“A changed world begins with us. A changed us begins with prayer.” – Eugene Peterson
"After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment." -
W.A. Criswell
“People should not tire and wear out the patience of others; nor should the weaker so far demand moderation from others as to rely upon their indulgence and so to rest in their own infirmities, with danger to their own souls and scandal to the church.” —
Richard Sibbes
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive.” - C.S. Lewis
A Christian is nothing more than a sinner who has found out their sinfulness and has learned the blessed secret of living by Faith in Christ. -JC Ryle
A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience. Elisabeth Elliot
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