QUOTES

" We have not merely come near to Christ, nor has He simply drawn close to us. Rather, we live in Him, and He lives in us! We live by being in Christ (by being related to Him, by being united with Him, by drawing our spiritual life from Him). Moreover, He lives in us and desires to express His life through us.

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Death has two stages, first the separation of the body from the spirit… for a purely spiritual existence, and second, reunion with the body and a glorious resurrection....

~Billy Graham

Jesus, after he had finished his work, slept in a costly grave; for now, his Father loved and honored him, since his work was done.

~C.H. Spurgeon~

Don’t ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the One qualified Mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified Savior. - ~Erwin Lutzer~

The gift of Jesus is available to each of us; all we need to do is receive Him.

It’s easy to be faithful when the crowds are with you, raising hands, singing, having a good time. But when Jesus went to the cross, even His closest friends scattered, unable to handle it.

We can rejoice in the triumphant, but dying to ourselves is hard. A relationship with Jesus means everything, every part of our lives surrendered and yielded. Everything surrendered to a loving Savior who came to give us life “more abundantly,” Who blesses us with everything. Ray Bently

Disobeying [God] is the same as telling Him to hold back all of the blessings that come with obedience and bring on all the punishments that come with disobedience. That is not only stupid, but it’s also insanity.

~Joy Dawson

When our confidence in the Lord falters, even when our behavior is anything but faithful, we still cry out to God. Our prayers depend, not upon ourselves, but upon our God who is faithful and righteous, gracious and merciful.

Since God’s response to your prayers depends on God’s own faithfulness, not on yours, next time you are going to ask God for something, begin by focusing on God’s own character—on his grace and mercy, on his wisdom and knowledge, on his faithfulness and righteousness.

God wanted you to spend eternity with Him so much, He allowed His own child to die in order for you to be deemed worthy. You qualify! There isn’t a list of requirements in order for you to receive salvation. All you have to do is accept the gift.

In a world where restrictions are placed on every position and opportunity, your salvation is pre-qualified.

JOHN 3:16

Samuel was a man of God He was honorable He was touchable He was reachable He went to the people and he was local His words came to pass

I want to be and strive to be like this how about you?

1Sa 9:6 And he said to him, “Look now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.”

Dwight L. Moody said, "Be humble or you'll stumble." Humility is the cure for pride. It's the quality Jesus Christ displayed when He left heaven to become a man and give His life for our salvation. Jesus said, "I am gentle and lowly in heart" (Matthew 11:29).

In 1 Corinthians 15:9 Paul said, "I am the least of the apostles." In Ephesians 3:8 he called himself "less than the least of all the saints." And in 1 Timothy 1:15, he said he was the worst of all sinners. Since these statements were written, respectively, in AD 59, AD 63, and AD 64, Paul grew downward in humility as time went on. Philippians 2:1-11 notes two activities that are necessary for all believers: humility (bowing in submission before God) and doxology (rendering worship and praise to God). A healthy spiritual life will have both.

The resurrection of Christ is the Amen of all His promises.

~John Boys~

If you want answers, you have to go to the source.

If you want people to pay attention to your words, you must first be willing to humbly and quietly serve them. Do you seek an audience or do you look for opportunities to serve? I think service with a call was beaten into me as a new Christian. Knowing cretin Greek words were the norm in the 80's like douloō or doulos, It was described as the under-rower on the ships or a slave who was set free but willfully served his master even after being set free. They would be pierced in the ear to show their submission to their master as a servant free of bondage. I won't get graphic and describe what the life of the under-rower was like but in the book of Philemon there was a slave who had run named Onesimus and Paul tells Philemon to receive him as himself. Paul had counseled Onesimus and was sending him back. In most of Paul's epistles, he starts off with, I Paul a bondslave of Jesus Christ. But he says this and I love this, he says in

1Cr 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

We are all One in Christ Jesus our Lord We are all free!

"As we find so many times in the Bible, God chooses to use unlikely individuals in unlikely ways to do what are often unlikely things." —Alistair Begg

"With Jesus as our role model, we can learn to be true friends to those He places in our care. Who has the Lord given you to be a friend to? What will it look like to show them loyalty, speak to them honestly, and treat them sensitively?" —Alistair Begg

"I believe the church is in real danger. It is in for a rough day. We are facing present pressures, & a present & future manipulation which will be so overwhelming in the days to come that they will make the battles of the last 40 years look like child's play."—Francis Schaeffer

"God, through the perfect life, atoning death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, rescues all his people from the wrath of God into peace with God, with a promise of the full restoration of his created order forever." (Ray Ortlund)

"Once there was a fear of hell in you; there is no hell for you now." — Charles Spurgeon

Anyone can manufacture emotion. Only the Holy Spirit can transform the heart and give repentance.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith John Calvin