*Instead of making excuses, make changes.
Christ’s blood has value enough to redeem the whole world,
but the virtue of it is applied only to such as believe.
~Thomas Watson~
To be righteous is to align with God’s holy character in every facet of one’s being. This is the requirement for being in a relationship with God in this world and for gaining entry into Heaven. Awhile back, billionaire Warren Buffet transferred a huge chunk of his wealth to a charity started by billionaire Bill Gates. But in God’s economy, He transfers the immeasurable wealth of His righteousness to your “account” through Jesus Christ.
Christ’s blood has value enough to redeem the whole world,
but the virtue of it is applied only to such as believe.
~Thomas Watson~
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."- Zig Ziglar
For every trial, comes a blessing. Do the blessings come right away? On our timing? No, they come on God's timing and God's timing, is perfect. For those days where you just feel like giving up remember: Everything in your life has happened for a reason, and God knows you'll be able to pull through.
“Sometimes in life, you find a special friend: someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop: Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it”
Every single thing that has happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
do you believe this?
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
~Martin Luther~
There is nothing wrong with making plans for tomorrow, next month, or next year. But just remember, the Lord may change your plans. He, not you, is in control of your life.
How easily we slip back and burden ourselves with loads of unnecessary rules, laws, and social conventions. Somewhere in our attempts to be religious people, we forget that Jesus said, “ the truth will set you free.”Nowhere did God set down dress codes, music codes, building codes, social conventions, or lists of rules upon which to hang our salvation. Jesus hung on the cross.
That was enough. Live according to the word of God, His law...
some are like the Dead Sea, always receiving but never giving because their relationship is not right with the Lord Jesus.
It is not enough for us to love Jesus alone. Our relationship has to be two-fold horizontal and vertical. Love God with all your heart and soul and love your neighbor as your self.
Anytime you choose to rise above your circumstances, it changes the trajectory of your life.
Scott Hamilton
“We deserve eternal shame and contempt because of our sin, but he [Jesus] took all that shame upon himself, and made this wonderful exchange.”
~C.H. Spurgeon~
“When a man purposes to serve God, the devil aims, to make sure it doesn’t happen. Don’t give him that win, by remaining faithful to Him.
"The church is the conscience of the state, and it is a conscience that cannot afford to become seared and silent...it must remind the state of its God-given duty." -
R.C.Sproul.
"I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done God wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me."
— Charles Spurgeon
A “church” that baptizes unrepentant sinners and endorses sin isn’t a church but a synagogue of Satan.
It’s time to stop obsessing over your failures. You are fearfully and wonderfully made… and mistakes are the rule, not the exception. Understand that you are God’s beloved and He doesn’t see your mistakes when He looks at you.
"To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings."— Portuguese Proverb
"The devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name."— Ricardo Sanchez
Man is so needy, and God has so much to give. The needs of man could hardly be overstated. The resources of God could only be understated. Words like emptiness and deficiency describe humanity. Words like fullness and abundance describe our God.
The Good Shepherd will never lead us astray. We can trust our Heavenly Shepherd to lead us into green pastures and clean, refreshing pools of water to nourish our souls.
We’re saved by grace alone through a genuine belief in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Have you wondered if you could lose your salvation? Has that caused you to be afraid? God is not the author of fear. When you genuinely believe in and trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior, that can never be taken away. ~
"You must study and labor to understand the faith." — Charles Spurgeon
"All manner of afflications that come to men are sent to touch their conscience and to bring them back to God." — Charles Spurgeon
"He loved us so as to die for us. We can be sure that his love will never die." — Charles Spurgeon
"I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done God wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me." — Charles Spurgeon
"He who demands a reason of God is not in a fit state to receive one." — Charles Spurgeon "God has punished Christ instead of me, and therefore he cannot also punish me." — Charles Spurgeon
"Avoid a sugar-coated gospel. Seek that gospel which rips up, tears, and cuts, and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again." — Charles Spurgeon "Faith is the reverse of sight. It is to believe that we are saved when sin tells us that we are lost." — Charles Spurgeon "A Christian must never stop repenting, for I fear he never stops sinning." — Charles Spurgeon "The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity." — Charles Spurgeon
"You are a great sinner, but he is a greater Savior. Come, Goliath sinner, the Son of David can save even you." — Charles Spurgeon "Faith which accepts one word of God and rejects another is not faith in God, but faith in our own judgment or our own taste." — Charles Spurgeon
"I, for one, am perfectly satisfied with everything that God does, whether of power, justice, or mercy." — Charles Spurgeon "Leave Christ out of preaching, and you have taken milk from the children, you have taken the strong meat from the men." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is no fear that we shall ever go too far in our love to God." — Charles Spurgeon "Hearing the Word lifts us up towards heaven." — Charles Spurgeon "Cast yourself simply on Jesus; let nothing but faith be in your soul towards Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon "Dear friend, the Lord Jesus Christ is able to make your life entirely new." — Charles Spurgeon
"It is a crime and an insult to God, for me, an atom, a particule of dust, to dare to deny his words." — Charles Spurgeon "If you are living without prayer, you are living without Christ." — Charles Spurgeon
"Joy in the Lord is more injurious to Satan's empire than anything." — Charles Spurgeon "Thousands of prayers have been strangled in their infancy by unbelief." — Charles Spurgeon "Virtues without faith are whitewashed sins." — Charles Spurgeon "The person who is living entirely for himself: What does he know about redemption by Christ?" — Charles Spurgeon
"If your theology doesn't change your behavior, it will never change your destiny." — Charles Spurgeon "God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills of our tribulation in balances." — Charles Spurgeon "Faith fosters every virtue; unbelief murders every virtue." — Charles Spurgeon "May we never take a dry-eyed look at sin, lest before long we have a tongue parched in the flames of hell." — Charles Spurgeon
"Satan is sure to try to hinder us when we are earnest in prayer." — Charles Spurgeon
"If you put one atom of trust in yourself, you have no faith in Christ." — Charles Spurgeon "A gospel without the Trinity is a rope of sand that cannot hold together." — Charles Spurgeon "Christ is ever fixed in his place and all the stars are secure in the right hand of their Lord." — Charles Spurgeon "It is our daily lament that we cannot love God enough." — Charles Spurgeon
"Good books enrich; bad books bewitch." — Charles Spurgeon
"God gives us no cause for wavering, for he never wavers." — Charles Spurgeon "We ought surely to be content with such things as we have, for he who has God has more than all the world." — Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "A Christian is not meant to be a solitary being." — Charles Spurgeon "You must continue to do God's will. Only God can enable you to do so." — Charles Spurgeon
No matter how much we disagree with our government... we should be leading the way in respecting our civil leaders by praying for them. — Kevin DeYoung “But if we have been chosen in him, we shall not find assurance of our election in ourselves… Christ then is the mirror wherein we must, and without self-deception may, contemplate our own election.” — John Calvin "Every man must serve somebody: we have no choice as to that fact. Those who have no master are slaves to themselves. Depend upon it, you will either serve Satan or Christ, either self or the Savior." — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“The Spirit-filled life produces music. Whether he has a good voice or cannot carry a tune, the Spirit-filled Christian is a singing Christian. Nothing is more indicative of a fulfilled life, a contented soul, and a happy heart than the expression of song.” –– John MacArthur
“Do not make any authority that stands in opposition to the authority of Christ a rule to walk by, for who dare stand by this before Jesus Christ? Ah! sirs, walk by no rule but what you dare die by and stand by at the great day.” — Thomas Brooks "But Christ dwells principally on this, that the vital sap–that is, all life and strength–proceeds from himself along." –– John Calvin on John 15:1
"... for obedience which believers render to him is not the cause why he continues his love toward us, but is rather the effect of his love." –– John Calvin on John 15:10 “The purpose of the church is to provide fellowship for God's people, to give instruction in righteousness, to expound the Scriptures, to offer help and aid and to administer the sacraments.” — Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans, 90. “Many help Satan, the accuser, and plead his case against the Spirit, their comforter, in refusing to see what God sees in them.” — Richard Sibbes
Jesus "commends to them the doctrine of the gospel from the fruit which it produces, that they may be more powerfully excited to mediate on it continually, since it resembles the vinedressers knife to take away what is useless." –– John Calvin on John 15:3
“We are weak, but we are His; we are deformed, but yet carry His image upon us. A father looks not so much at the blemishes of his child, as at his own nature in him; so Christ finds matter of love from that which is His own in us.” - Richard Sibbes. The Bruised Reed, Works 1:71 “The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” — Westminster Confession, Chapter 23 “There’s more mercy in Christ, than sin in us” — Sibbes, “Light from Heaven”
“Believers, therefore, are reckoned as heeping the commandments of Christ when they apply their earnest attention to them, though they be far distant from the object at which they aim; for they are delivered from that rigorous sentence of the law…” — John Calvin
Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross—than we do to the throne of grace. —Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm, Pg. 11
“In the cross of Christ we see most clearly the glory of God (cf. 2 Cor. 4:6).” — Michael Reeves, Authentic Ministry, 22.
Indwelling sin always abides while we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified. —John Owen
“How sweet is rest, after fatigue! How sweet will Heaven be, when our toilsome journey is ended.” — George Whitefield
“If God is not sovereign, then God is not God.” — R.C. Sproul
“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
“God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with him as if you were the only being he had ever created.” - C.S. Lewis
“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
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.” - C.S. Lewis
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” - C.S. Lewis
“Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not.” - C.S. Lewis
It is no excuse at all for either party [in a marriage] to indulge in bitterness and contention in this relation, that the other party is [only] to blame; for when was there ever one of fallen mankind to be found who had no faults? —Jonathan Edwards, Works 2:183
Antinomianism puts the highest affront upon God. It abuses Him there where He is most glorious, where He should have the most praise, 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦. —Nicolas Claget, The Abuse of God’s Grace, Pg. 218 There are many persons who appear well among their neighbors and abroad … yet if you follow them to their own houses, and to the families in which they belong, there you will find them very perverse in their ways. —Jonathan Edwards, Works 2:182
Just as sin is exceedingly sinful, Christ is exceedingly Christ, and grace is exceedingly grace. Anthony Burgess The brawny seared conscience makes use of Christ’s indulgence to ease his spirit, not to heal his lusts. —Nicolas Claget, Abuse of God’s Grace, Pg. 224 Your offensive displays of wronging grace tempts carnal observers, too prone to be loose, to turn into more bold antinomians. —Nicolas Claget, The Abuse of God’s Grace, Pg. 220 The Westminster divines were called upon to create a model of theological stability and certainty in the context of considerable political and theological chaos. —Samuel T. Logan, Jr., A Commemoration of the Westminster Assembly: To Glorify and Enjoy God, Pg. 32 This is the foundation of so much debauchery, and of such corrupt practices among young people: family-government is in a great measure extinct! —Jonathan Edwards, Works 2:183
We may as well play with fire near gunpowder as play with temptations near lust. —Nicolas Claget, Abuse of God’s Grace, Pg 264
The church is like a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power. —Puritan Thomas Manton Lifeless prayer is no more prayer than the picture of a man is a man. —Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm, Pg. 20
"IF YOU BEHAVE IN A MANNER THAT POISONS YOUR RELATIONSHIP, DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN IT DIES."
DON'T MAKE A DELIBERATE BAD DECISION IN PRIVATE, THEN BLAME YOUR PUBLIC EXPOSURE ON DEMONIC ATTACK. REMEMBER: YOU GET TO PICK YOUR CHOICES, BUT YOUR CONSEQUENCES GET TO PICK YOU!
HOW YOU SEE YOUR FUTURE IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU SAW IN YOUR PAST. ISAIAH 43:16-21,
Perhaps you have been caught up in the restlessness of this world and you find yourself on a treadmill— always walking and never getting anywhere. The pressures of life have you full of worries and anxieties. Look at the path beneath your feet. Move yourself back to the old path. It is as easy as getting on your knees before God. Ask Him to forgive you for straying and to bring you back to a place of dependence and trust. Chuck Smith
It’s difficult to understand how people can think the Bible supports the prosperity gospel—the idea that God’s plan and purpose for every life includes being wealthy in the here and now. How do believers not see through this, given the clear words of Scripture? Jesus said, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions” (Luke 12:15). Cymbala
Are you willing to follow the Shepherd? Larger, deeper, stronger, higher. God pours His love into us. He causes our relationship with Him to grow, and with it, our view of life. Ray Bentley
God already has in His mind what He wants to do with the lump of clay that is you. Stay on the wheel. Yield to His touch. And watch the beauty He creates in you. Chuck Smith
We never need to be afraid to follow Him. The Good Shepherd will never lead us astray. We can trust our Heavenly Shepherd to lead us into green pastures and clean, refreshing pools of water to nourish our souls. We can trust in His love. Ray Bentley
God loves you. God's thoughts towards you are of peace, and He's using those circumstances to work out His eternal plan in you. Chuck Smith
Whatever blessings we receive are set before us right in front of those insidious enemies! It’s God’s way of defying them, of saying to them, no matter what you do, you are not welcome at this feast of life. Ray Bentley We Christians are all on the same team. If one hurts, we should all feel it; and if one is blessed, we should all rejoice. Cymbala
We assume God’s judgment should begin with those who do the greatest evil. But it doesn’t. It never has. It begins with us. And that’s been perplexing to God’s people throughout the ages. Larry Osborne
Disruption not only purifies us, it also brings us back to our knees, where we gain a closer relationship with our Father. Chuck Smith
As long as we have a grain of self–sufficiency, we will never trust in the All–Sufficient. While there is anything of self left, we prefer to feed on it. Only when our stale bread becomes too sour and too moldy for eating do we humbly ask for the bread of heaven to satisfy. Spurgeon
“Every victim of burnout will tell you that unhealthy patterns of living and working that they learned in their youth caused their downfall later in life.” — David Murray, Reset, 15.
Stop wasting your time and life chasing other people’s approval. We’re accepted by God in Christ. That’s more than enough.
Contentment is an undervalued grace. Alistair Begg
Joy is increased by spreading it to others. Robert Murray M‘Cheyne
Death-beds are stony things without the Lord Jesus Christ. Charles Spurgeon
If I was saved by a simple gospel, then I am bound to preach that same simple gospel till I die, so that others may be saved by it. When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus, put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone. Charles Spurgeon
We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity. Paul Washer If I am asked to say what is my creed, I think I must reply— “it is Jesus Christ.” Charles Spurgeon
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon & the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon. Robert M.M.
Don’t trust preachers that don’t trust the Bible.
As Christians, we can’t complain that prayer was removed from our schools, when we’re not even praying in our own homes. The greatest spiritual education for our kids begins at home.
A hopeless world needs Hope. His name is Jesus.
It’s humbling to think that Jesus can already see my failures of tomorrow, and yet, still wants to be my Savior of today.
Contrary to the narrative in the world today: You can disagree with someone, and still love them. You can have differing views, and still be kind. You can believe marriage is between a man and woman, and still not be a bigot. You can be pro-life, and still be pro-women.
The biggest issue people have with God is that they want to be God, instead of Him.
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