QUOTES

"You weren't an accident. You weren't mass-produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman."— Max Lucado

"We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus."— St. John Paul II

"Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free."— Shannon L. Alder

"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.”

— Billy Graham

When the enemy attacks, we need to recognize the origin of the lie, then renounce it, confess, and repent: Lord I have agreed with the enemy and allowed a stronghold in my heart.

The Lord is near you right now. He’s not far off, not absent, not unaware. He’s right with you. Don’t be afraid!

We will have trials. We will have pain. But we know that our Redeemer lives!

Trials and pain, blessings and ease, no matter what comes our way, God is still our God! He deserves our praise and worship because He is so good to us!

How is your way working? Are you exhausted, worn out, frustrated, or overwhelmed? Stop and ask: Am I connected to God? Am I abiding in Him? What would change emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, if we stopped and just got reconnected to Him?

By worship, we alter the atmosphere as we come into agreement with what God has declared and change the darkness, oppression, and battle fatigue into victory and triumph!

God hurts with you, cares for you, and still heals in miraculous ways.

God listens, knows, and understands your hopes and fears.

If the Bible calls it a sin, our opinion doesn’t really matter.

If you are still following a course of self-pleasing you are only deceiving yourself if you think you have come to Christ.

~A.W. Pink~

I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

~D.L. Moody~

The key when we witness to others is to make sure we speak at the level that a person can understand and process. The same is true for us when we learn.

“Thoughts invite us, more than words and deeds, to continue in sin, for thoughts can be concealed, while words and deeds cannot.”

—Soren Kierkegaard

If you will trust yourself with the Savior, he cannot betray or deceive your trust.

~C. H. Spurgeon~

Be salt, sprinkled everywhere, inspired and empowered by the Holy Spirit to show the love of Jesus to the world.

Take the time, like Jesus, did, to get to know individual people and their stories.

“A Christian is not one who withdraws but one who infiltrates.” —Bill Glass

“If we agreed on everything, one of us would be unnecessary.” ~Ruth Graham

The things that are important can not be neglected, some of them can't be gotten back once you have lost them and some body is always waiting in the winds to pick up where you stopped. We men tend to think because we are a great provider we don't have to be loving and the one who is loving thinks he can get away without provision. Don't be deceived.

Christ is not only our peace, but through His death on the cross, He reconciled the Jews and the Gentiles, bringing peace between the people. He made us, both Jew and Gentile, one in Him.

There is room enough in Christ for all comers.

~Matthew Henry~

Natural desires are at rest when that which is desired is obtained, but corrupt desires are insatiable.~Matthew Henry~

God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.

~Charles R. Swindoll~

It is the will of God that His children grow in a sanctified life (that is, to be set apart increasingly for the glory, honor, and use of God).

LET NO ONE COUNSEL YOU THAT DOESN'T SEEK COUNSEL WITH GOD FIRST!

HELP SOMEBODY WITHOUT TELLING EVERYBODY. LEARN TO BE KIND AND QUIET!

STOP PANICKING...START PRAYING!

BE PREPARED! GOD IS NOT RESTORING EVERYTHING! SOME PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS HE'S REPLACING!

YOU DON'T HAVE A SINGLE PROBLEM THAT GOD CAN'T SOLVE.

YOUR TIME IS 2 VALUABLE, YOUR DESTINY IS 2 GREAT, YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS 2 IMPORTANT, YOUR VISION IS TOO BIG, YOUR PURPOSE IS TOO ESSENTIAL, YOUR PROMISES ARE TOO PLENTIFUL TO GET BAITED INTO BATTLES NOT MEANT FOR YOU TO FIGHT. LOSE SIGHT OF THE DISTRACTIONS & FIND YOUR FOCUS AGAIN!

"THE PLOT OF THE ENEMY WILL NEVER OVERTHROW THE PLAN OF GOD."

"DON'T GAZE AT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AND GLANCE AT GOD. SHIFT YOUR FOCUS!"

"EVERYONE WANTS TO BE CLOTHED WITH POWER, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO BE STRIPPED OF PRIDE."

"Nothing is out of control, and nothing will be out of control as long as the ascended King sits on the throne." —Alistair Begg

"When we listen to the suggestions of others rather than to the directions of God, we will live with the implications for ourselves, and so will those who love us and those who live within our sphere of influence." —Alistair Begg

"You can't just go walking into heaven. You need someone to open the way for you. The story of the Gospel is: someone has opened the way for you." —Alistair Begg

You can't be so bad that Jesus can't save you, nor can you be so good that you don't need to be saved. Everybody needs to hear the good news of the Gospel of salvation. Find out why when you join us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:

"We are to live and die in faith, believing that God will fulfill His purposes in every event, both big and small, both those we have dreamed of and those that feel like nightmares." —Alistair Begg

"The church in its existence causes the angels to rejoice and the demons to shudder, testifying to the fact that Jesus has accomplished in time the purposes of God from all of eternity." —

Alistair Begg

"The church is the sphere in which God makes His wisdom known both on earth and in heaven." —Alistair Begg

Tonight and tomorrow afternoon, the Jews of Israel and the whole world celebrate "Tish'a B'Av" - the fast of the ninth of Av, the day of national mourning of the Jewish people, the day of the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.

"The cross is a resplendent display of unmerited, unexpected, unexampled love." —

Charles Spurgeon

We are nothing; but God with us is everything." — Charles Spurgeon

"The very act of prayer is a blessing." — Charles Spurgeon "As soon as your children can understand anything, let them know about Christ." —

Charles Spurgeon "Weak may be our feet, but almighty is God's right hand." — Charles Spurgeon "Followers of Jesus must be men of mercy; for they have found mercy, and mercy has found them." — Charles Spurgeon

"If the service of God is worth anything, it is worth everything." — Charles Spurgeon "All that you can possibly need is in Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God. —Charles Spurgeon

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. -A.W.Tozer -

If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. -C.H. Spurgeon -

..down in the inmost depths, heaving and boiling like the lava in the crater of a volcano works that master sin...pride! -J.C. Philpot -

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. -Thomas Watson -

"If a man is born again he will desire, purpose and endeavor to live as becomes a child of God." - A.W. Pink

“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” —

Jonathan Edwards

Our sin’s are made Christ’s, and Christ’s righteousness is made ours. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:441

The preaching of the Puritans contained the following: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain. 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches. 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching. —J.I. Packer

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." -E.M.Bounds.

The God of Scripture is not some impersonal force, particle field, or energy mass. He is independent (Acts 17:25) He is eternal (Ps 102:12) He thinks (Is 58:8-9) He communicates (Heb 1:1-2) He acts in history (Heb 2:4) He loves (Jn 3:16) He is kind (Acts 14:17)

In all unbelief, there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God. -Horatius Bonar -

So long as God keeps us in the furnace of trial, so long does He keep us on our knees at the throne of grace. -Octavius Winslow -

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience? -A.W. Tozer -

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. -C.H. Spurgeon -

You must not think forgiveness will be nearer to a believer in the day of judgement than it was in the hour he first believed. —JC Ryle, Old Paths, Pg. 185 When the Bible says that Christ is God, it does not ask us to forget a single thing that it has said about the stupendous majesty of God. No, it asks us to remember every one of those things in order that we may apply them all to Jesus Christ. —J. Gresham Machen

The human condition: When you finally get everything your little heart desires, your little heart will find something else to desire. Tim Challies

‘Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.’ – Thomas Adams

Your personal testimony is not the Gospel. R.C. Sproul

Sometimes God puts believers in ungodly situations to be a light.

Some people fancy they may be justified one year and condemned another, — children of adoption at one time, and strangers by and by, — heirs of the kingdom in the beginning of their days, and yet servants of the devil in their end. I cannot find this in the Bible. —JC Ryle

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Oswald Chambers I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. Samuel Rutherford

On topical #preaching: “In a topical sermon the text is reduced to a peg on which the speaker hangs his line of thought; the shape and thrust of the message reflect his own best notions of what is good for people rather than being determined by the text itself.” – J. I. Packer

Nothing is out of control, and nothing will be out of control as long as the ascended King sits on the throne. Alistair Begg

“The case for complementarianism rests not on appeal to the eternal personal relations of the Trinity, but on what Scripture teaches regarding how God has created, ordered, and designed men and women.” — Stephen Wellum

I can say as to myself, that I have been assailed on all sides, and have scarcely been able to enjoy repose for a single moment, but have always had to sustain some conflict either from enemies without or within the church. - John Calvin

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings. Richard Sibbes

You and I may well come boldly to the throne of grace. He who sits there is far more willing and ready to give mercy than we are to receive it. —JC Ryle, Old Paths, Pg. 184

Do you think Jesus Christ is only for little sinners? Spurgeon

“Your neglected Bible is a plain evidence that you do not love God.” J. C. Ryle

There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price. FB Meyer

The first thing the enemy does is challenge our identity as God’s son or daughter. Then he plants a lie that takes root, and we begin to believe it. Worry, fear, and anxiety insinuate themselves into our minds and hearts and without realizing it, we’ve agreed with the enemy. Ray Bentley

True sacrifice is always out of survival, never out of surplus. We have a tendency to say, “Lord, if You bless me, then I’ll give. If You bless us, then we’ll move out.” That’s exactly backwards. You give first, then the blessing is released. Jon Courson

A man who is born again does not use the world’s opinion as his standard of right and wrong. J.C. Ryle

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you’ve settled the question of how to die. Alistair Begg The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

George Whitefield

God is on your side. When things are confusing or hard to understand, remember that.

Chuck Smith

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. Samuel Rutherford Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea. Samuel Rutherford

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today. Wayne Dyer

What we enjoy as Christians is that there have been those before us who have prayed on our behalf, who have given of themselves, and who have passed a heritage on down the line.

Jon Courson

“The moral law has never been abrogated, and it is to be perpetually observed.” —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans 14:81 “Neither doth Christ, in the gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.” —Westminster Confession of Faith XIX.V

There is no true liberty but that wherewith Christ makes you free. - Charles Spurgeon

We differ from the Pelagians by holding the doctrine of human depravity—the natural corruption of the human heart & human inability, without Divine grace, to turn from sin to holiness—teaching at the same time that a sufficient measure of grace is given to every man -Ryerson 1882

"Brethren, we can overcome sin in the power of the Lord." - Charles Spurgeon

Christ justifies no one whom He does not also sanctify. By virtue of our union with Christ, He bestows both gifts, the one never without the other. John Calvin "We must strive after holiness with an agony of desire. Oh, to be rid of every sin!" -

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing which is more insulting to the holy Name of God than to profess Him with your lips and deny Him in your life. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones A church that does not discipline sinning members (including the most prominent members) loses its credibility because it does not take seriously its own doctrines and standards. —

John MacArthur

“Let us but learn to enjoy God in every thing, and every thing in God, and we shall find that this world, polluted as it is, is yet a Paradise: with God’s favour, pulse [dried legumes] is better than royal delicacies, and the meanest dungeon is a palace.” —Charles Simeon

"If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of, I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness." - Charles Spurgeon

"Now, whenever you are thrown down and touch your God in your faintness and weakness, you will find that he restoreth your soul: “To them that have no might he increaseth strength.”" - Charles Spurgeon

"We are never, for a moment, to suppose that we have exhausted the strength of God when we have exhausted our own." - Charles Spurgeon

“God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis

"Sin is strong, but grace is stronger." - Charles Spurgeon