If God decides to not bail you out of your present situation add another second to your game clock.
The church that is soundly rooted cannot be destroyed, but nothing can save a church whose root is dried up. No stimulation, no advertising campaigns, no gifts of money, and no beautiful edifice can bring back to life the rootless tree. ~A.W. Tozer~
There can be a great victory in suffering as long as it points us back to the cross.
Let's place our hope in the only one worthy -- our "hope of glory" -- the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
As children of God, we have a real hope -- not in words or slogans but in the sacrifice Jesus made for us on the cross. Hebrews 10:23: "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
We know that no matter what our circumstances -- God is in control and all things work out for good. (Romans 8:28: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.")
The study of God’s Word will secure peace. You take Christians who are rooted and grounded in the Word of God, and you find they have great peace; but it is those who don’t study their Bible and don’t know their Bible, who are easily offended when some little trouble comes, or some persecution and their peace is all disturbed; just a little breath of opposition, and their peace is all gone.~D.L. Moody~
“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but the truth.” — Matthew Henry
The church is not a place. It’s a body––a family with blood ties through Jesus Christ.
~Billy Graham~
Billy Sunday, said, “More men fail through lack of purpose than through lack of talent.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky observed in The Brothers Karamazov, “For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth.”
The devil wrestles with God, and the field of battle is the human heart.~Fyodor Dostoyevski~
Christians often get the relationship between faith, works, and salvation messed up. Some think that our works can earn our salvation, though this is plainly contradicted by Ephesians 2. Others think that works are completely irrelevant to salvation, though this is also contrary to the plain sense of Scripture.
When people view your actions, they cannot see the “why” behind them, but God can. Even when you feel justified in your behaviors and words, God sees your motivation because He looks at your heart.
"Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world but that God has a church for his mission in the world. The mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission-God's mission." -Chris Wright
The Bible is seen to be more reliable, not less reliable, as time passes.” –
James Montgomery Boice
"Forgiving is the direct opposite of judging. Nothing is easier than judging, nothing is harder than forgiving, and nothing can reap more blessings."~Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela
The Burlap Bag of Burdens
Worry is the burlap bag of burdens. It’s overflowing with “what-ifs” and “Howells.” Whaddif after all my dieting, I find that lettuce is fattening and chocolate isn’t? Howell, will we pay our baby’s tuition?” Whaddifs and Howells…the burlap bag of worry. Cumbersome. Chunky. Unattractive. Scratchy. Irritating to carry and impossible to give away! No one wants your worries. The truth is, you don’t want them either. No one has to remind you of the high cost of anxiety, but I will anyway. Worry divides the mind. It splits our energy between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s problems. The result is half-minded living!
"When God starts blessing people, what is the first thing they do? They start bragging about it. It is not yours. It has been loaned to you. You are a steward, a house manager. God wants to see how well you manage His things." ~ Raul Ries
There's NO such thing as FAILURE... only FEEDBACK!!!
Our eyes, when gazing at sinful objects are out of their calling and God’s keeping.
~Thomas Fuller~
You can’t do enough “piece work” to satisfy God’s expectations, so He takes care of them for you, through Jesus Christ. That’s the wonderful promise of His grace.
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