"NEVER BE ASHAMED TO CELEBRATE YOUR VICTORIES, EVEN WHEN THEY SEEM OF LITTLE VALUE TO OTHERS. ONLY YOU AND GOD REALLY KNOW THE BIG PRICE YOU PAID AND WHAT IT'S STILL COSTING YOU TO WALK IN VICTORY."
SOMETIMES A BAD DISAPPOINTMENT NOW IS JUST GOD SETTING YOU UP FOR A GREAT APPOINTMENT LATER!
MY SINS ARE GREAT, BUT HIS GRACE IS GREATER!
MATURITY IS NO LONGER ALLOWING THE SAME OLD DOG TO BITE YOU TWICE, NOR AN OLD FLAME TO BURN YOU AGAIN! LEARN THE LESSON AND YOU'LL FINALLY PASS THE TEST!
SOMETIMES NOT GETTING WHAT YOU WANT IS GETTING WHAT YOU NEED.
"AREN'T YOU GLAD THAT GOD CAN MAKE SENSE OUT OF A CONFUSED PRAYER? EVEN WHEN YOU ONLY HAVE A GROAN, THE HOLY GHOST CAN STILL INTERPRET. AND WHEN WE GO SO FAR LEFT FROM WHAT GOD TOLD US TO DO, JESUS STILL SITS AT THE FATHER'S RIGHT HAND MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US!"
"NO WORRIES...YOUR PROBLEM CAN'T CHANGE GOD'S PLAN."
"DISCERNMENT IS A WASTE IF YOU THINK EVERYONE CLOSE TO YOU IS FOR YOU. JUDAS HAD ACCESS TO PROXIMITY, PRIVACY, AND POSITION TO JESUS...AND STILL, HE BETRAYED HIM WITH A KISS FOR SOME CHANGE!"
BE LESS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT TABLE YOU'RE INVITED TO SIT AT, AND MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WHETHER GOD TOLD YOU TO SIT THERE.
Instead of approaching church like a consumer looking to simply get in and get out every weekend, come in and use the gifts that God has given you. It can change your life, and it can certainly change the way you see the church.
We need to get rid of this me-first, what’s-in-it-for-me mindset and start thinking biblically. We need to start asking what we can do to help others and serve others. We need to ask how we can learn to resolve conflicts and maintain the unity that is in the church.
“In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.” — Thomas Goodwin
“In Him” we live and move (Acts 17:28). “In Him” we have redemption (Eph 1:7). “In Him” we are heirs (Eph 1:11). “In Him” we were sealed (Eph 1:13). “In Him” we are built together (Eph 2:22). “In Him” we have boldness (Eph 3:12). We are nothing without Christ.
“The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in the same measure sick of some spiritual disease or other, so all have occasion to exercise the spirit of wisdom and meekness.” — Richard Sibbes
EMBRACE NOT BEING NOTICED FOR A SEASON, GOD IS KEEPING YOU HIDDEN FOR A REASON.
Ezekiel 33-34 has some cautionary images for pastors: a watchman who fails to warn the people of impending danger; the singer of beautiful songs that people don’t heed; a shepherd who cares only for himself and not the sheep.
"There is no doctrine of the Word of God which a child if he is capable of salvation, is not capable of receiving." — Charles Spurgeon
You that are yet in doubt of your condition, consider that the patience of God was extended unto you this day, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺, that you might use it for the obtaining of the remission of your sins. —John Owen, Works 6:453
"Your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love, and you are cheerfully to accept it." — Charles Spurgeon
The thing about legalism is that it doesn't make us want to work harder, it makes us want to give up.
"'Revival' is the most prostituted word that we have in our vocabulary today." -Leonard Ravenhill
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