Part of living with priorities is: Don't do too many things. Narrow your focus down to the things that God has for you to do. Say yes to the right things and say no to everything else. To put it in medical terminology: Don't be a general practitioner, become a specialist. Billy Graham was offered land free of charge and funding to build a Christian university in 22 different cities in America. But each time he declined, not because Christian universities aren't important but because he said God called him to be an evangelist, not to run a university.
Meet the Savior
If you took a name at random out of the phone book and asked me, “Max, how does Chester whoever feel about adultery?” I couldn’t answer. I don’t know Chester Whomever.
But if you were to ask me, “Max how does Denalyn Lucado feel about adultery?” I wouldn’t even have to call her. I know. She’s my wife. We have walked together long enough that I know what she thinks. The same is true with God. Walk with Him long enough and you come to know His heart. When you spend time with Him in His study, you see His compassion. When you welcome Him to enter the gateway of your soul, you’ll perceive His will. To meet the Savior is to be set aflame. To discover the flame is to discover His will. And to discover His will is to access a world like none you have ever seen. from The Great House of God~ Max Lucado
Anyone can say that “Christ is Risen” on Easter weekend, but do you live like “Christ is Risen” every day?
“We are incompetent judges of the righteousness and wisdom of God unless we are infinitely righteous and wise ourselves.” — Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 65. “He who hath friends, especially he who hath Christ for his friend, should show himself friendly.” — Benjamin Beddome
“A simple answer to the question "Why is there so much inequity in the world?" is this: it is a huge and ignorant presumption to judge God's proceedings.” — Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 65. “God loves us enough to make us like Jesus (Romans 8:29), so our path is in some measure the same. Miscarriage reminds me that I have not got to the glory part yet.” — Eric Schumacher
The carnal person fears man, and not God; the strong Christian fears God, not man; the weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little." - John Flavel. A Practical Treatise of Fear. Works, 3:241.
"The sole basis of this verdict of justification is the righteousness of Christ, imputed to the sinner and received through faith alone.” — Guy Prentiss Waters, Facing the Last Enemy, 114.
“Comforts must be founded on strong reasons… Christ’s comforts are of a higher nature than any trouble.” — Richard Sibbes
Our only hope is to throw ourselves unreservedly on God's mercy and trust him for all.
J Gresham Machen
"The Gospel is not given its rightful honor unless we put it before all the riches, delights, honors, and comforts of the world." —John Calvin
“To the degree, our people would be devoted to Jesus, they will be persecuted and afflicted.” —H.B. Charles
"The only way you're having your 'best life now' is if you're going to hell when you die." -Voddie Baucham. "We shall never know the 'peace of God' until we first have 'peace with God'." -
Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
"It's hard to imagine that the disciples, who had just hours before run away to save their lives, were now preaching the resurrection on the basis of the beaten, bloodied body of Jesus which they had dragged somewhere and hidden." —Alistair Begg
"Our access to God isn't restricted to a temple or a church or any other building, nor must it be through a merely human priest or a guru. No, 2,000 years ago God broke into history to establish direct access to Himself through Jesus." —Alistair Begg
"It is not that the Christian lives in the realm of faith, and the non-Christian or the unbeliever lives in the realm of scientific rationalism. Both live in the realm of faith.” —Alistair Begg
"Ultimately, belief in Jesus and belief in the resurrection is a matter of faith, but it is not a leap in the dark. It is based on evidence that is powerfully persuasive." —Alistair Begg
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself." — Charles Spurgeon
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