“When you pray, God listens; When you listen, God talks; When you believe, God responds.” (Author Unknown)
“God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray.” (Author Unknown)
“God is the best listener. You don’t need to shout or cry out loud because He hears even the very silent prayer of a sincere heart.” (Author Unknown)
“Pray, not until God hears you, but pray until you hear God.” (Author Unknown)
“God listens to all your spoken and unspoken prayers, and grants the ones which are the best for you. Have faith. Trust Him.” (Author Unknown)
“When you can’t put your prayer into words, God hears your heart.” (Author Unknown)
“Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He’s not a block of wood you made up that’s not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.” (Francis Chan)
“Don’t worry. God is never blind to your tears, never deaf to your prayers, and never silent to your pain. He sees, He hears, and He will deliver.” (Author Unknown)
“When we pray, God hears more than we say, answers more than we ask, gives more than we imagine, in His own time and His own way.” (Author Unknown)
“When you need, God knows. When you ask, God listens. When you believe, God works.” (Author Unknown)
“Talk with God, no breath is lost. Walk with God, no strength is lost. Wait for God, no time is lost. Trust in God, you will never be lost.” (Author Unknown)
“Pray daily. God is easier to talk to than most people.” (Author Unknown)
“God is always ready to listen anytime you are ready to talk to Him. Prayer is simply talking with God.” (Author Unknown)
“Talking to God is like talking to a friend on the telephone. We may not see Him on the other end, but we know He’s listening.” (Author Unknown)
“God will lead you where He wants you to be, but you have to talk to Him daily to see where He wants you to go. The key is prayer.” (Author Unknown)
SOME PEOPLE THAT START WITH YOU WON'T STAY WITH YOU! APPRECIATE WHAT WAS “THEN ”, BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF WHAT GOD'S DOING IN YOUR LIFE “NOW ”!
WARNING: "MANY OF THOSE WHO WISH YOU WELL, ALSO PRETEND WELL!"
DON'T BE SO BUSY TRYING TO GET GOD'S SHEEP TO FOLLOW YOU, THAT YOU DON'T REALIZE YOU'VE STOPPED FOLLOWING THE SHEPHERD YOURSELF.
"WHILE THE DEVIL IS ADDING UP YOUR SINS, GOD IS MULTIPLYING HIS GRACE!"
I'D RATHER PREACH TO 10 PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEY NEED GOD, THAN 100 WHO JUST WANT TO PLAY CHURCH!
"PREACHERS: DON'T RUN THROUGH OPEN DOORS TO PREACH, YET FORGET TO SIT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS FOR ESSENTIAL SEASONS OF GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, MATURITY AND PRAYER!" You can’t follow Jesus, and hold hands with the devil at the same time.
"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.” - C.S. Lewis
Let us refuse to look at circumstances, though they roll before us as a Red Sea and howl around us like a storm. Circumstances, natural impossibilities, difficulties, are nothing in the estimation of the soul that is occupied with God. FB Meyer
We must make time, not “find time,” to read and study the Word of God. Just as a machinist studies the shop manual, and the surgeon studies his medical texts, so the Christian must study the Word of God. Bible study is not a luxury; it is a necessity. wiersbe
"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.
“Let thy heart go forth and meet Him.” — C.H. Spurgeon
“Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and let us be content to know only what Thou choosest to reveal.” — C.H. Spurgeon
“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.” — Jonathan Edwards “Since thou art thus forgiven freely for Christ's sake, go and tell to others the joyful news of pardoning mercy. Be not contented with this unspeakable blessing for thyself alone, but publish abroad the story of the cross.” — C.H. Spurgeon
“One of the problems with the classroom is that the student does not need to own the ideas in the same way as he would in the pulpit or in one-to-one pastoral ministry.” — The Trellis and the Vine, 145.
“O God, Happiness, in whom and by whom and through whom all those things are happy which are happy.” - Augustine “It is not enough to hear God's voice—but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honor we owe to God.” — Thomas Watson, “The Ten Commandments”
“In the believer there is nothing that can magnify man; he is planted, nourished, and protected by the Lord's own hand, and to Him let all the glory be ascribed.” — C.H. Spurgeon
“The office of faith is to knit us to Christ, and the weakest faith will do that, as well as the strongest.” — Richard Sibbes
Only what God has commanded in his word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions. —John Owen
The law repels; the gospel attracts. The law shows the distance between God and man; the gospel bridges that distance, and brings the sinner across that great fixed gulf which Moses could never bridge. Charles Spurgeon
Some people want to be lied to because the truth hurts too much.
The way to make known God's glory and greatness, is only in Jesus Christ. - John Newton
Terror accomplishes no real obedience. Only the certainty of love, forgiving love, can do this. -Horatius Bonar - Marvel not, that all who will live godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecution. -George Whitefield -
"Conscience is God's preacher in our bosoms, and it is a most certain rule that the man who will not regard the preacher in his bosom will never regard the preacher in the pulpit." -Edmund Calamy
"All pleasures must be subordinate to pleasure in God." -Mark Dever.
"Hold your plans with open hands, that way it doesn't hurt as much when the Father changes them." - Corrie ten Boom
For our salvation depends not on this full assurance of faith; but on our union and communion with Christ, which may remain safe and secure without that (assurance). —Hermann Witsius (1636-1708), The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man
Assurance after all is no more than a full-grown faith, a masculine faith that grasps Christ's promise with both hands. -J.C. Ryle - Nothing twists and deforms a soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God. -A.W. Tozer -
To desire only comfort is more selfish, to desire purging is an aim more at the glory of God. —Stephen Charnock, Works 4:217
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. John Calvin "Our King came among us in meek and lowly guise, and so he continued among us." - Charles Spurgeon
"[Christ] zeal was intense, but he had his spirit well in hand, and not a grain of self-seeking ever defiled his ardour." - Charles Spurgeon
"[Christ] lifted up his voice like a trumpet, and cried and spared not, so that his persuasive voice was heard in the street, and throughout all the land his gospel was made known." - Charles Spurgeon
“Christ refuses none for weakness of parts, that none should be discouraged; accepts none for greatness, that none should be lifted up with that which is of so little reckoning with God.” - Richard Sibbes. The Bruised Reed, Works 1:52.
"We are all monuments of God's mercy." - Thomas Watson
The children of God have two divine intercessors. Christ is their intercessor in the court of heaven. The Holy Spirit is their intercessor in the theatre of their own hearts. — John Murray, Commenting on Romans 8:26
When the world is bitter, the Word is sweet. Matthew Henry
"You shall not find Christ pushing his way among the politicians, crying, “I claim leadership among the sons of men.”" - Charles Spurgeon
The Spirit doth accuse for sin, but doth also shew a righteousness to answer those accusations, if it be embraced. —Stephen Charnock, Works 4:207
Satan knoweth that all strength and activity to cast off his yoke lieth in the knowledge of, and closing with, Christ, he useth all arts to keep us from the knowledge of the gospel, and the gracious condescension and good will of Christ… —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:207
"None but He who, by one word's speaking, spake all nature into existence, can triumph over the opposition of the heart." —Lemuel Haynes
Believers will not grow at the same pace or to the same degree. Neither will progress always be evident. All believers will slumber, stubble and stall. However, throughout the believer’s life, there will be discernible growth in Christlikeness and fruitfulness. Paul Washer
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