God is faithful. What He promises to do, He will do. BUT WE NEED TO DO OUR PART. SUBMIT AND RESIST.
We are works in progress. We are under construction. He isn’t finished yet. We only see the beginning, but God sees the end from the beginning. And one day it all will come into focus.
“The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the Word of God.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
"God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart." — Charles Spurgeon
"He who says, 'I have no sin,' has surely never seen into his own heart at all."
— Charles Spurgeon
We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud. -
JC Ryle
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.
Dustin Benge
It is good for me to be afflicted, that I may die wholly to this world, and all that is in it.
David Brainerd
Here, then, is our guidebook, our textbook - the Word of God. If I utter a syllable that is not justified by the Scriptures, don't believe me.
D.L. Moody
All over the world, God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.
~Billy Graham~
The book of Acts is the only book without an “Amen,” because the work of the Holy Spirit continues today––through us––until Christ comes again. Only then will the book come to its full conclusion.
Morally, a Christian is called to holiness; dynamically, he is called to service.
~John Blanchard~
Have you thought of your life as separated into spiritual — going to church, reading your Bible, praying — and secular — working, playing, exercising, vacationing? What changes in your mind if you consider all of it spiritual activity?
I think if you had asked Jesus about His spiritual life, He would have looked at you very confused. My guess is He would have asked, What do you mean by My spiritual life? Do you mean My life? All of My life is spiritual.
I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
~D.L. Moody~
“Go to the front lines, at home or abroad, in the battles against hunger…human trafficking or genocide…you meet evangelical Christians…who truly live their faith.”
Giving a teen boy unfiltered internet access in his room or pocket is like filling his closet with porn magazines and saying, “Don’t look at them.” If that sounds extreme, you don’t understand how many young men become enslaved to porn in their own homes.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.
Ready or not, Jesus is coming!
In every Christian’s heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross. If he refuses the cross he remains on the throne.
~A.W. Tozer~
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
~John Owen~
Living intentionally in God’s presence isn’t just something we do during religious observances and in our private lives. Yes, we walk before God when we gather with others for worship, when we work for justice when we spend time with our families and close friends. But, like the writer of Psalm 116, we have been saved by God so that we might live consciously in his presence and for his purposes every moment of every day. We are to walk before the Lord at home and at work, in church and on the soccer field, as we volunteer in soup kitchens, and as we labor in companies that make soup or markets that sell soup.
Awareness of God’s presence gives new and profound meaning to every part of life. It transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Let's stop making excuses and start focusing on God's calling.
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet." - Matthew 5:13
"preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching" (2 Timothy 4:2).
If you don't know the Bible well, you can be misled. But if you're conversant with the teaching of the Bible, when something false comes along, you'll know the difference between what is true and what isn't. Greg Laurie
“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”
― Corrie Ten Boom
I was serving in the children's ministry 3rd service and a lady picked up her daughter halfway through the service. She told the other teacher and me she was falling asleep in service. Tonight she went forward to receive Jesus. Knowing the words in the bible and knowing the author are worlds apart.
As the world is getting more perverse each day, may we each pass down a spiritual heritage to the next generation. May we teach them to be followers of Jesus in all they do? Invest your time and energy with your kids or grandkids; volunteer in your church to help young people. We so desperately need a world full of people to cry out as David did in the Psalms, "For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth" (Psalm 71:5).
"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." ~ Mother Teresa
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." ~ George Burns
"The problem is never how to get new innovative things into your mind but how to get the old ones out
You really want to do what is right. But sometimes life turns south. Occasionally we need a reminder. Not a sermon. A reminder. A reminder that God knows your name.
From When God Whispers Your Name
"Life is full of fake people. Before you decide to judge them, make sure you are not one of them."
"Quitting is always a choice but never an option."
"Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things." ~
Samuel M. Shoemaker
"The worse prison would be a closed heart."
The sweetest satisfaction lies not in climbing your own Everest, but in helping others climb theirs! “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love;
You should never think of sin without repenting.
~Philip Henry~
We often talk of love as believers and we even talk of doing God's word as it says in the bible but if we are not willing to let go of past, pain, and fear we will never experience the love that God has for you. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. God loves you so much let Him be Lord of your life and have abundant living.
WHEN GOD RESTORES YOUR PEACE, DON'T RECONNECT WITH THE THIEVES WHO STOLE IT!
"LORD, HELP ME TO MAINTAIN CHARACTER, FAITHFULNESS, INTEGRITY, DIGNITY, DISCRETION, DISCIPLINE, SELF-CONTROL, AND A SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IN PRIVATE. HELP ME TO FULFILL YOUR REQUIREMENTS OF A GOOD STEWARD, IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE."
"FEW Will Hear: 'Well Done Good and Faithful Servant', Enter In', While Far Too MANY Will Hear: 'Depart From Me, I Never Knew You'. MAKE SURE YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE RIGHT GROUP!"
Living Your BEST LIE ONLINE Will NEVER Help You Live Your BEST LIFE OFFLINE.
"As Much as You Want Them to Be Apart of Your Entire STORY, They Were Only Meant to Be One CHAPTER. The Worst Thing You Can Do is Ruin a BESTSELLER By Adding LINES to a CHARACTER God Already KILLED OFF!"
STOP WAITING FOR A FOLLOWING AND JUST LEAD! THE BEST TRENDSETTERS ARE TRAILBLAZERS!
God knows that, as we are prone to sin, so, when conscience is thoroughly awakened, we are as prone to despair for sin; and therefore He would have us to know, that there are heights, and depths, and breadths of mercy in Him above all the depths of our sin and misery." - Sibbes
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon
"Without Jesus I can do nothing." — Charles Spurgeon
"My work is to preach Christ crucified, which gives men salvation." — Charles Spurgeon
"No power can imprison the redeemed of the Lord." — Charles Spurgeon "Death is terrible for doubters; for while they know the grave, they do not know the life beyond it." — Charles Spurgeon
"Hearing the Word lights us up with joy." — Charles Spurgeon
"We look forward with joyful confidence to a heaven of holiness with which we shall be sastisfied eternally." — Charles Spurgeon
"Our business is not to think of our own idea of what God should be, but to find out what God really is." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is no way that you can argue somebody to faith in Jesus Christ. The only way that they will ever come to an understanding of the Gospel is a result of God's amazing grace and goodness." —Alistair Begg
Why is it that some people read the Bible or hear it preached yet fail to understand it? Why would anybody not believe the good news of the Gospel? What are they missing? Hear the answers when you study along with us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:
"God used 300 men to defeat the Midianites because the weakness of the army put His might on display. In the same way, He uses our weakness, suffering, and fumbling efforts to demonstrate His gracious power." —Alistair Begg
Be ashamed, you slouching saints, that a few thin clouds of some short afflictions should so wrap you up in the darkness that the hope of heaven cannot turn your sorrow into joy and comfort. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:198
Faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death. Jan Hus A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
Martin Luther
Pray, and let God worry. Martin Luther
"There is no saving truth apart from the Scriptures." —Alistair Begg
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all... -Jonathan
Man...is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the...World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble. -John Bunyan -
The more we dwell in the secret place of the Most High, the less will the baubles of man charm us. -A.W. Pink -
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is often hatched. Guard your thoughts and there will be little fear about your actions -J.C. Ryle -
"Our truest strength lies in prayer." - Charles Spurgeon
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.” - C.S. Lewis There is no other way a man’s sins can be forgiven and his soul reconciled to God except by the Gospel of Christ. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 2:306 Everything in creation obeys God's laws of nature—except us. We are the one part of creation to whom He gave free will, which we stubbornly exercise with alarming persistence. Ray Bentley Of all the men who lived on the face of the earth, the most remarkable and the most singular in his age was the Lord Jesus Christ." - Charles Spurgeon
"Get close to God, for strength flows out of him." - Charles Spurgeon
Do not make an excuse that you do not have opportunities to do anything for the glory of God, for the interest of the kingdom of the Redeemer and for the spiritual benefit of your neighbor. —Jonathan Edwards If any one being planted in Christ is seduced through his infirmity, or the temptation of Satan, to commit sin, he takes confidence in pardon; for God, who with such supreme affection loves Christ Himself, cannot hate those who are in Christ. —John Davenant, Colossians, Pg. 162
If people claim to be Christians but do not mortify their sins, they are lost. — Dr. Joel Beeke
"Your restraining of prayer, if you seek to serve God, is binding your own hands and cutting the sinews of your strength." - Charles Spurgeon
Christ indeed is not ashamed to call the poorest saints brethren, but he disdains to have his name seen upon a rotten-hearted hypocrite. —William Gurnall
"Keep at a distance from [God], and you lose all power and become weak as water." -
Charles Spurgeon
"As you could not expect to be vigorous if you denied yourselves food, so neither can you hope to be strong if you deny yourselves prayer." - Charles Spurgeon
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
DL Moody
"Lift up your cry to God and beseech him to fire you with a nobler ambition than that which possesses the common Christian — that you may be found faithful unto God at the last, and may win many crowns for your Lord and Master, Christ." - Charles Spurgeon I am not to believe what the Bible says merely because it agrees with my reason; but I must believe my reason because it aligns with the Bible. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:127
If you are worried or distressed about a problem, you haven't come to a real trust in God yet. The moment you place the whole situation in God's hands, worry will go; fear and anxiety will disappear. Rest in God. It is all in His hands. Chuck Smith
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