. . .This blessing will reach you, even if you have not light enough to read it; it will find you, even though you cannot see it coming. . . This is the night when you can trust that any direction you go, you will be walking toward the dawn.
We received the Lord and His great salvation as gifts of grace. "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!…For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God" (2 Corinthians 9:15 and Ephesians 2:8). We must, therefore, walk in Him with a "grace-receiving" mentality.
Bob Hoekstra
To the region where he goes, the man enters newly born. We forget that it is a birth and call it death. And as the childbed is watched on earth with anxious expectancy, so the couch of the dying, as we call it, maybe surrounded by the birth-watchers of the other world, waiting like anxious servants to open the door to which this world is but the windblown porch.”
George McDonald, Robert Falconer,1868.
When C.S. Lewis mourned the death of his wife, he wrote, “It is hard to have patience with people who say ‘There is no death.’ There is death. And whatever is matters…I look up into the night sky. Is there anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces…I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?”
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
(Harper One, 2001, originally 1961) p. 15
“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so…
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
—John Donne, poet,1572-1631
The believer is appointed to be a lighthouse to others, a cheering lamp, and a guiding star.
~C.H. Spurgeon~
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
~John Foxe~
Bible doctrine without love is but a shadow of truth.
A.W. Tozer
Through faith in Jesus, we have been delivered from him who walks about as a roaring lion, and from the ultimate devouring lion: death itself.
Ray Comfort
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The manner in which we received the Lord is the very same manner in which we are to walk in Him. "As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." We received Him by grace, we must walk by grace.
Bob Hoekstra
None of us knows how big God's plans might be for us. All we can do is yield to His will.
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God's grace is manifold. It is like a heavenly diamond with innumerable facets. Every vantage point reflects a new insight into the gracious resources of our Lord.
Bob Hoekstra
Church unity comes from corporate humility.
~Leonard Ravenhill~
The context in which worship is most abundantly realized is within the church—not ornate buildings, entertaining experiences, or worship liturgies, but God’s gathered people.
Dustin Benge
There is no secular work.
If we are God’s people, then our work is ministry.
Jason Robinson
Jesus didn’t let cultural norms, political correctness, or social status dictate His relationships with people.
He ate with sinners.
He touched lepers.
He spent time with outcasts.
Jesus didn’t require people to change before coming to Him, but after meeting Him, they changed!
Dustin Benge
You are not rejected.
YOU ARE CHOSEN.
You are not worthless.
YOU ARE PRICELESS.
You are not condemned.
YOU ARE REDEEMED.
You are not guilty.
YOU ARE FORGIVEN.
You are not lost.
YOU ARE FOUND.
Jason Robinson
“We know that to those who love God, who are called according to His plan, everything that happens fits into a pattern for good.” —Romans 8:28
(J.B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English)
Most joyfully will I confirm with my blood that truth which I have written and preached.
~Jan Hus~
A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.
~C.H. Spurgeon~
Prayer offers to God the stuff of our everyday lives. People are the stuff of our everyday lives! And those two should converge regularly.
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To win the fight, you have to have the right strategy and the right resources, because victories don’t come by accident.
— From War Room
You must realize that if Satan has a bold strategy to overpower you, you should use your fervent prayers as a bold, strategic weapon to overcome and have victory through Christ Jesus.
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God doesn’t work through us because we’re flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.
~A.W. Tozer~
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