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Your blood is pretty powerful and important stuff! But the blood of Jesus is even more powerful.

We couldn’t live without our blood and we can’t live eternally in Heaven without the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus is the best gift we’ve ever received! It’s amazing!

If God has said no to your prayer recently, don’t think that it’s necessarily a bad thing. It could be a very good thing because God loves you and sees the big picture. There is a place for faith and prayer. But God may overrule our requests, especially when we ask for something that will harm us.

When our will is subject to His will, when we experience the power of obedience we will live the abundant life Jesus promised.

The more we grow in the knowledge of God, the more we gain what is important for life. Our happiness in this life comes as a direct result of growing in our relationship with Christ.

The key is that you can never stop growing and learning. We are a generation mesmerized and pacified by social media, the internet, television, and artificial life forms. Too many are zoning out on life, tuning out God, resisting His desire to tame our destructive wills and nurture our spirits.

Leonard Ravenhill, the author and prayer warrior, tells the story of a group of tourists in a picturesque historic village in Europe. They saw an old man sitting by a fence and in a rather condescending way, asked him if any great men had been born in this village.

“Nope,” he replied. “Only babies.”

The Bible says, “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done” (Philippians 4:6 NLT).

"The generous outpouring of God's love not only nurtures our own hearts, but it overflows into every relationship we have."

"Truth without love is brutality and love without truth is hypocrisy." Warren Wiersbe

The Lord has the power to fill our emptiness in ways only He can satisfy.

The Lord desires that we should have great certainty concerning His promises. Our God does not want us to be plagued with apprehension concerning the fulfillment of His promises. In all that God has promised, He intends for us to stand in bedrock assurance: "that the promise might be sure to all the seed." This certainty is based upon two sets of related truths: one between His promises and His grace, and another between His grace and faith in Him.

Grace is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the entire work of salvation; it is totally devoid of human merit.

There are times when the soul is too big to speak; when God fills it as it were, and overshadows it with his presence so that it can only fall down, worship, adore, and lie in the dust before the Lord.

George Whitefield

Today in Christian History: August 3, 1739

English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'I am no friend to sinless perfection. I believe the existence (though not the dominion) of sin remains in the hearts of the greatest believers.'

Herod sent 16 soldiers to guard Peter. God sent 1 angel to free Peter.

No power of man can thwart God’s plans.

You will know God heard your prayer, not because your problem has been solved. You know God has heard your prayer because of the peace He gives you.

Tony Evans

Keep me solemn, devout, faithful, resting on free grace for assistance, acceptance, and peace of conscience.

—Valley of Vision, Prayer: Backsliding, Pg. 157

A great many people live all their life under the bondage of death, and they fear judgment; but if a man's life is hidden with Christ in God, there is nothing to fear in time or in eternity.

D.L. Moody

"We cannot bear to be his enemies any longer; distance from him has become distasteful to us; we long, like the prodigal son, to arise and go to our Father, that we may hereafter dwell in our Father's house." - Charles Spurgeon

The Lord desires that we should have great certainty concerning His promises. Our God does not want us to be plagued with apprehension concerning the fulfillment of His promises. In all that God has promised, He intends for us to stand in bedrock assurance: "that the promise might be sure to all the seed." This certainty is based upon two sets of related truths: one between His promises and His grace, and another between His grace and faith in Him.

Bob Hoekstra

A minister, a Boy Scout, and a computer expert were the only passengers on a small plane. The pilot came back to the cabin to report that the plane was going down, but there were only three parachutes. “I should have one, “ the pilot said,” because I have a wife and three small children.” He took one and jumped. The computer genius said, “I should have one because I am the smartest man in the world.” He took one and jumped. The minister turned to the Boy Scout and with a sad smile said, “You are young and I have lived a rich life, so you take the parachute, and I’ll go down with the plane.” The Boy Scout said, “Relax, Reverend, the smartest man in the world just picked up my backpack and jumped out.”

We can certainly be knowledgeable yet lack wisdom!

When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, He shed further light on the prophecies written about Jesus’ Second Coming. He gave understanding to references to the restoration of Israel. Know this: God has not forgotten Israel! He will use the Great Tribulation period to draw them back to Himself.

Jesus preached to “the lost sheep of Israel.” He died on the cross in Jerusalem. He was raised from the dead in Jerusalem. And the Bible teaches that our Savior is coming back again to reign and rule from Jerusalem. Why shouldn't we love Jews, then?

~Joel C. Rosenberg~

God’s power can’t come in to make you strong until you admit you are weak!

F.B. Meyer made this observation based on these verses: "It is very terrible when the children of the world have a higher sense of Christian propriety and fitness than Christians themselves."

Open Bible, Open Heart, Open Ears

Do you have a Bible? Read it! When anxiety termites away at your peace, read Philippians 4:6: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”

God is not less real because people say they do not believe in Him.

Was every man on earth to become an atheist, it could not affect God in any way.

~A.W. Tozer~

Warren Weirsbe said, "Before God gives his servants great victories in public, he sometimes prepares them by giving them smaller victories at home." You need to stand for righteousness and pour the Word of God into your spouse and into your children. You need to take a righteous stand for your community on behalf of God. If we don't practice our faith at home, how can we practice it sincerely anyplace else? Be a Godly man, and a Godly woman, in your household.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The Lord desires that we should have great certainty concerning His promises. Our God does not want us to be plagued with apprehension concerning the fulfillment of His promises. In all that God has promised, He intends for us to stand in bedrock assurance: "that the promise might be sure to all the seed." This certainty is based upon two sets of related truths: one between His promises and His grace, and another between His grace and faith in Him.

“What you have to do in animation... is direct the audience’s eyes to where you want them to go, to not just soak in the environment, but feel it.” - Finding Nemo producer Graham Walters

"Life is the sum of all your choices." ~Albert Camus

Responsibility brings accountability.

~Ken Robins~

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go." - Alan Redpath

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT SOME PEOPLE ONLY SEE YOUR WORTH...WHEN THEY NEED YOUR WORTH?

WE SERVE A POWERFUL GOD! LET'S STOP INSULTING HIM WITH OUR DOUBT, UNBELIEF, WORRY, AND FEAR.

"THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REMORSE AND REPENTANCE. REMORSE IS BEING SORRY FOR BEING CAUGHT. REPENTANCE IS BEING SORRY ENOUGH TO CHANGE."

"ANYONE WHO SAYS, 'I JUST CAN'T SEE THAT'...SHOULD NEVER BE A PART OF YOUR VISION."

Jesus loves you so much that He wants you just how you are, but He also loves you so much that He’s not going to leave you that way. The Gospel saves you, but it will also change you.

The Rapture is the moment when all believers, living and dead, will meet Jesus in the cloud! We will then receive a new heavenly and immortal body. What a beautiful Heavenly reward to look forward to! Our Lord is coming for us, Hallelujah Get Ready For The Rapture

Divine sovereignty and gospel evangelism go hand in hand, the former preparing the way for and ensuring the success of the latter. Steven Lawson

Some preachers would rather offend God than offend man. Those preachers should repent or resign.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. Charles Spurgeon Are you one of those that get angry when you hear there’s only one way to God? The question is why should there be one? Not why is there only one? R.C. Sproul

Find immediate peace through believing in Jesus. There is no other way. Charles Spurgeon A church that cannot worship must be entertained, and men who cannot lead a church to worship must provide entertainment. A.W. Tozer

Remind yourself every day you get up and everywhere you go, ‘I am in the presence of God’. Alistair Begg

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him. J.C. Ryle Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary. Elisabeth Elliot

One of the great blessings of the fear of the Lord is that it can teach us to hate sin (Prov. 8:13). Edward T. Welch We have an instinct that switches our allegiance from God to our idols. What are our idols? Comfort, pleasure, power, personal meaning, self-esteem, and so on. The possibilities are endless, but they all have one thing in common: an allegiance to self. Edward T. Welch

Expectation is the root of all heartache. Shakespeare

God’s Word is true and will long outlast the gender madness of our day. Ken Ham A man cannot be a faithful minister until he preaches Christ for Christ's sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ. Robert Murray M'Cheyne Sin is not primarily a human-against-human action. It is human against God. Edward T. Welch Our beliefs are not rooted in our feelings; rather, they are found in the teaching of Scripture. Edward T. Welch Times are bad, God is good. Richard Sibbes

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery. Thomas Boston

"God did not give us His gospel just so we could embrace it and be converted. Actaully, He offers it to us every day as a gift that keeps on giving to us everything we need for life and godliness." –– Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer, 5. This cannot be stated too strongly: From the very beginning, Christianity tied itself to history. The most important claims of Christianity are historical claims, and on the facts of history the Christian religion must stand or fall. — Kevin DeYoung, Taking God at His Word, 32

"We are justified by the object of faith alone, this is by the merits of Christ only, without which we can have no righteousness whatever... Nothing but the merit of Christ can be our righteousness in the sight of God, either as a whole, or a part only." - Ursinus

"When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what he is, and take heart" —Spurgeon

"Christ did not come to put men in a redeemable position but to redeem to himself a people." -John Murray

“Freedom from fighting is the liberty of glory in heaven when there will be no enemy within or without.” — Richard Sibbes

“God's promises never fail and the Promised One never disappoints.” — Kevin DeYoung

“God's hand is never closer than when he prunes the vine. During those times of severest cutting when, to us, he may seem to have departed, he is the closest. His pruning may pain us, but it will never harm us.” — R. Kent Hughes on John 15:2

"In one brilliant statement, our Lord both legitimizes and limits the role of the State." –– Tim Cantrell on Mark 12:16-17

“Anger is a whole-personed active response of negative moral judgment against perceived evil.” — Robert D Jones, Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help for a Common Problem, 15.

Seek Christ, and 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. Wait not till you feel you have repented enough. Wait not till your knowledge is increased. Wait not till you have been sufficiently humbled for your sins. Seek Christ just as you are. —JC Ryle (1816-1900), Old Paths, Pg. 220

"The sinner must come to Jesus, not to works, ordinances, or doctrines." — Charles Spurgeon

Christ’s love is not cooled by being in heaven. He was dead, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘪𝘮; He now lives, and His affections live with Him, and He lives forevermore. —

Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:141

"When will Jesus cast you out? That time will never come." — Charles Spurgeon

You and I have been born in this particular stage of history, this hour in the history of humankind. Our lives are not an accident. God knows you, designed you, and planned on your life being here at this time for specific reasons. Ray Bentley

Direct your thoughts away from the problem and put them on God; away from your own weaknesses and onto His strength. You need to remember that God loves you and is in control of the circumstances that surround your life. Chuck Smith

A Good Shepherd is not known by how gently he pets the sheep. A Good Shepherd is known by how well he protects them and feeds them. —John MacArthur

"Let us bless the God of revelation, who does not hide himself from us." — Charles Spurgeon

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. -George Whitefield - When the heart grows fat and is surfeited with creature good, we are prone to forget and to forsake God... -Octavius Winslow -

Whenever there is a conflict between culture and God’s truth, culture must always submit to the truth God has revealed in His Word. - Tony Evans

Covetousness and contentedness cannot dwell in the same heart. Avarice is never satisfied. - Thomas Watson

"For the faith that has God's word is a true faith; but that faith which has not God's word is a lying faith, a false faith." -Hugh Latimer.

"There is no doctrine of the Word of God which a child, if he be capable of salvation, is not capable of receiving." — Charles Spurgeon The degree of life in the Church determines the degree of death in the world. -Leonard Ravenhill - The beginning of the way to heaven is to feel that we are on the way to hell. -J.C. Ryle -

When we obey, surrendering our wills, resources, marriages, families, and futures to the Lord, we break the enemy’s power to control our lives. We step into the realm where God desires to bless us. Ray Bentley

You won't find the solution to your problems by looking at other people or at yourself.

Chuck Smith

If our adversary never cease to 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦 us, our Advocate never ceaseth to 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥 us. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:142

The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing. —A.W. Pink

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace. Thomas Watson

"Find immediate peace through believing in Jesus. There is no other way." — Charles Spurgeon Holiness is the queen every gracious soul is espoused to, and he will rather die than be divorced. -Thomas Watson - Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. -George Whitefield -

“Remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.” ~ Thomas Brooks

My dear hearer, perhaps this very night you also will go forth into glorious liberty. I know you will, if you will by faith look to Jesus as the Lamb slain for you. - Charles Spurgeon

"In my sermon preparation, I milked a lot of cows but I made my own butter; and if I poured some cream out of other people's pails, I gave them credit." - Warren Wiersbe

"O rend the heavens, come quickly down, And make a thousand hearts Thine own." -William Cowper.

"I wish that I could be like a simple child and literally believe what the Lord says." —

Charles Spurgeon As a body with cancer cannot thrive-so neither can the soul thrive which is cancered with pride and self-conceit. -Thomas Watson - What is sown now - will be reaped in eternity. -James Smith -

"The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God’s infallible Word." - O.S. Hawkins

When we hold back any territory of our lives from obedience to the Lord, we start to lose ground. We lose traction on the road of life and start slipping in the muck and messiness of sin and pain. Ray Bentley

God must deny Christ’s payment before He can deny thy pardon. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:442

It is finished wasn't a cry of relief, but a cry of triumph. Jesus accomplished what He came to do, to save His people from the wrath of God. Jerry Bridges

It is not, believe me, to my own imagination, or to any system formed in my closet, that I look for my principles; it is to the Scriptures - William Wilberforce "To believe the Gospel is not simply to believe that there was a Jesus or even to believe that Jesus was the person He claimed to be, but it is to give up all confidence in myself and place all of my confidence in Jesus." —Alistair Begg

"The grandest fact under heaven is this: that Christ by his precious blood does actually put away sin." — Charles Spurgeon

Emancipated from the slavery of Satan, the believer becomes the servant of Christ -Octavius Winslow - May it be our wisdom to see, our grace to abhor, and our victory to overcome pride! -J.C. Philpot -

The Bible makes it clear that to truly comprehend Christ's love, we need to engage our minds as well as our hearts. Find out why this is only possible through the Holy Spirit's enabling. That's our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:

Counselors should not forsake the inerrant Word of God in order to embrace the foolish philosophies of man. Why do you affirm the Nicene Creed instead of the Second Sirmium Creed or the Creed of Ulfilas? I affirm the Nicene Creed because it is a good summary of what the Bible teaches. When discussing the Trinity with Jehovah Witnesses, stick to using Scripture instead of quoting philosophers, Church Fathers, and Christian authors.

"None but the great God, against whom we have committed the sin, can blot out that sin." — Charles Spurgeon The very best and most elaborate services are only means to an end, and that end should be the salvation of souls. -J.C. Ryle - God's Name is taken in vain by us, when we use it without due consideration and reverence. -A.W. Pink -

If creeds & confessions are the necessary lens to view Scripture, how do you determine which creeds and confessions to accept and which ones to reject?

"To believe the Gospel is not simply to believe that there was a Jesus or even to believe that Jesus was the person He claimed to be, but it is to give up all confidence in myself and place all of my confidence in Jesus." —Alistair Begg