QUOTES

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons, and persecution. Now we’re trying to marry the Church to prosperity, personality, and popularity. Leonard Ravenhill

“Let us call iniquity what is really iniquity, rather than to call it weakness, temperament, failure, hangups, or to fall back on the tired excuse, ‘It’s just the way I am.’” Elisabeth Elliot

"If you live with Jesus, his life becomes your life." Charles Spurgeon

The longer you walk with the Lord, the more sensitive you become to sin in your life.

Dr. Steven Lawson

Don’t coddle, pet, and pamper the sheep. Our calling is to feed, protect, and warn the sheep.

Joel Rosenberg writes, “God has not given us Bible prophecy to scare us but to prepare us.”

Closed hands = cold hearts that will never meet the needs of the community.

You never come second when you put God first in your life!

The Abundance Cycle~ God supplies, we give, God multiplies, then my faith grows...

It is not the riches you have it is the riches that have you!

Delayed obedience is disobedience.

Be faithful in the little things. Often, the small things that no one sees bring the big results that everyone wants.

The strength of your organization is often reflected by how deep into it people have the ability to say, "yes." Do your best to delegate the power to make decisions.

When we lose our inner peace, we often go off in directions outside the will of God, trying to live a life God never intended for us.

“Emotionally healthy people understand the limits God has given them. They joyfully receive the one, two, seven, or ten talents God has so graciously distributed. As a result, they are not frenzied and covetous, trying to live a life God never intended.”

Scazzero, Peter, The Emotionally Healthy Church

“To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy, but it can be done, and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.” —Paul E. Scherer

I don't think God gives us what we are not ready for... I just think our vision can be too small. We need to be ready when we pray not my will but Thy will be done because most of the time it will not be as you planned it but it will be His perfect will for you. As Christians, we don't belong to ourselves any longer. We aren't our own. And we were purchased with a pretty hefty price tag. As a result, our sole purpose in life should be to respond in joyful obedience and service to Him.

Wisdom must be from God because it can be found only in relation to him.

~Edmund P. Clowney~

“I was like a stone lying in deep mire, and He that is mighty came and in His mercy raised me up and, indeed, lifted me high up and placed me on top of the wall. And from there I ought to shout out in gratitude to the Lord for His great favors…” —

St. Patrick, from the “Confession of Saint Patrick”— 450 A.D.