As we approach the new year, remember, your Salvation is born and continues to live and work in our lives!
Life is hard and it is also good. They mostly live together.
Your secret is no secret to God. Don’t try to hide it from Him; bring it to Him fully and transparently and let Him be your Rock and mainstay. God knows and He loves you!
God is more than willing to uphold and sustain you.
How exhausted are you today? Maybe you’re tired from too much hustle and bustle, too many gatherings and celebrations, and too little sleep. Or maybe you’re worn out from painful relationships, dissatisfaction, and discouragement. Whatever it is, rest in the Lord. He will strengthen you when you wait on Him!
Look for people who will encourage you in the things of the Lord. And be a person who will encourage others in the things of the Lord as well.
Look for friends who love the Lord. Look for people who will encourage you in your commitment to Christ. And if you’re presently engaged in a friendship, or even worse, in a romantic entanglement, that is dragging you down spiritually and is detrimental to your walk with God, then it’s time to sever it.
We must give serious consideration to the people we spend our free time with, the people we bare our hearts to. It’s important to look for others who love God and will encourage us spiritually.
True friends will say, “Because I love you, because I care about you, I must share this with you. I think you’re making a mistake. I don’t think you should do this.” Because your friends care about you, they will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde said, “A true friend always stabs you in the front.”
When you’re uncomfortable with someone, when you don’t know them that well, you don’t really want to say what you’re thinking. Maybe you just bought a new outfit that you’re not sure about. So, you say to your friend, “Hey, what do you think?”
One trait of friendship with people and with God is that true friends will tell each other the truth. That’s a mark of friendship.
Jim Elliot was a twentieth-century martyr who died in his endeavor to take the gospel to the Waorani tribe of Ecuador. Years earlier he wrote in his journal, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
If we are going to live by grace, we must relate rightly to the God of all grace: namely, by walking in humble dependence. Continual, Spirit-led prayer is the basic way to express humility and faith to the Lord. How fitting it is, then, to consider God's invitation to pray at the throne of grace.
a classic illustration of Spirit-led praying. The basic request of this majestic prayer was to learn about, and walk in, the will of God. We "do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him." Now we look at other issues in this biblical example of Spirit-led praying.
“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” - C.S. Lewis
The successful preacher does not end his sermon with the congregation on its feet applauding him, but on its knees adoring Christ. Leonard Ravenhill
Study hard, for the well is deep and our brains are shallow. Richard Baxter
If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can. Charles Spurgeon
The great concern of the New Testament Epistles is not about the size of the Church, it is about the purity of the Church. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THE DEVIL BUT THE COMPANY YOU KEEP THAT'S DELAYING YOUR BLESSINGS. ABRAHAM'S BIGGEST BLESSINGS CAME AFTER HE SEPARATED FROM LOT! REEXAMINE YOUR CIRCLE AND PART WAYS ACCORDINGLY.
SOMETIMES WHEN GOD SAYS “PEACE BE STILL” HE'S TALKING TO US, AND NOT THE STORM! ALWAYS TRUST WHAT HE SAID OVER WHAT YOU SEE!
STOP WATCHING THEIR STAGNATION AND START FOCUSING ON YOUR GROWTH.
GOD CAN'T LIE OR FAIL, HE WON'T LET YOU DOWN, HE'S PROMISED TO NEVER LEAVE YOU AND HE'S NEVER EVER LATE!
We can begin a new year strong and ready. Jesus promised victory, and we can claim that! Ray Bentley
You don’t have to be bound by the desires of your flesh. You don’t have to live in defeat. You don’t have to live in bondage. All the power in the universe is available for you through Jesus Christ—sufficient power for any and every emergency. Chuck Smith
Tested child of God, your daughter is sick, or your gold has melted in the fire, or you are sick of yourself. Your heart is sad. Christ counsels, “Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved” (Ps. 55:22). Spurgeon
We celebrated His birth; now we remember the cross and resurrection as the conviction in our hearts grows: “He must increase, but I must decrease”(John 3:30). Ray Bentley
It always amazes me how spot on and relevant the Bible is to situations in our lives.
“I believe.. in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God; begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father.” — Nicene Creed
“The Christmas message rests on the staggering fact that the child in the manger was—God. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the incarnation.” — J. I. Packer
“Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.” — Nicene Creed
When [Mary and Joseph] arrived at Bethlehem, they were the most insignificant and despised... See how God shows that he utterly disregards what the world is, has, or desires; and furthermore, that the world shows how little it knows or notices what God is, has, and does. -Luther
"good works, although necessarily connected with faith, are nevertheless not necessary for the apprehension of the merits of Christ." - Zacharias Ursinus. Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, 337.
“Be a pillar of fire unto our hearts and minds always, that these may follow you even in the darkness.” — Wilhelm Loche
“The people of God show their love as they confess the doctrines of the Bible and as those truths inform their conduct, all to the glory and love of God.” — J. V. Fesko, The needs for Creeds Today, 17.
“Now a happy Christmas to you all; and it will be a happy Christmas if you have God with you.” - Charles Spurgeon
“This day He who is, is born; and He who is becomes what He was not.” — John Chrysostom on the incarnation of the Lord Jesus.
“You’re not writing a commentary; you’re preaching a sermon.” - Alistair Begg
A. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life… to bring them into a state of salvation by a redeemer. — Westminster Shorter Catechism Q. 20
"Though waves roll over you, your soul never sinks." — Charles Spurgeon
"Study the Bible through and through, with all the helps that you can possibly obtain." — Charles Spurgeon
"Let tomorrow be what it may. Our God is the God of tomorrow." — Charles Spurgeon
"Soldier of Christ, if you enlist, you will have to do hard battle." — Charles Spurgeon
"If the very worst should happen, our God is still the greatest and best." — Charles Spurgeon
"Trials bring us to God and we are happier." — Charles Spurgeon
"If we pray, we will also act or else we are hypocrites." — Charles Spurgeon
"Trust Jesus and you shall soon find power with which to slay your sin." — Charles Spurgeon
"Until you die, you will always have to wrestle with the world." — Charles Spurgeon
"Study the Bible with diligence. Never be satisfied with a secondhand version of it." — Charles Spurgeon
"Death is the gate of endless joys. Do you dread to enter there?" — Charles Spurgeon
“Many think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing. The reverse is true.” — Charles Spurgeon
"We must stand by our Bible, never giving way." — Charles Spurgeon
"Faith enables a man both to live and to die without fear." — Charles Spurgeon
"How can I live in sin when he has died to save me from it?" — Charles Spurgeon
"To follow after holiness is the most blissful pursuit, to serve God is the greatest delight." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is not a word in the Bible that is not yours." — Charles Spurgeon
"He who tells little lies will soon think nothing of great ones." — Charles Spurgeon
“Church work must not push family worship into a corner. It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.” — Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon
"When my soul is full of Christ, I can defy the devil himself." — Charles Spurgeon
There’s a popular cliché constantly shared with young people, “It’s okay to not be okay.” That’s a good starting place, but the Gospel goes further than that. It’s okay to not be okay, but it’s not okay to stay that way, when God has provided another way. Jesus is the way!
The Bible doesn’t use terms like “biological male”, “biological female”, or “non-binary”. Those are made-up terms. The Bible only recognizes terms like “male & female”, because that is what was originally designed by the Creator. All other terms are designed by confusion.
Any belief that says, “God loves you, so you can do whatever you feel like doing”; is a belief that’s contrary to the Bible.
"I believe that if I should preach to you the atonement of our Lord Jesus, and nothing else, twice every Sabbath day, my ministry would not be unprofitable." - Charles Spurgeon
Our Saviour had all the sins of the elect upon him by imputation. —Thomas Manton, Works 13:307
"If [God] had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior." (D.A. Carson)
But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error. Augustine
You're not likely to err by practicing too much of The #Cross. -John Bunyan -
It is the #Holy Ghost who is the immediate, peculiar sanctifier of all believers and the author of all holiness in them -John Owen -
Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Dwight L. Moody
It was God’s Word that made us; is it any wonder that His Word should sustain us? Charles Spurgeon
"How can I live in sin when he has died to save me from it?" — Charles Spurgeon
Dear Sir, there is nothing like a life of faith. - George Whitefield: born 27 December 1714.
God’s Word is powerful enough to defend against an invasion or error, and precise enough to purge an insurgency of sin. – Paul Shirley
If you think salvation is half God and half man; you will give God half the glory and half the praise. – Steve Lawson
"Death consumes the beauty of the body, but consummates the beauty of the soul." -Matthew Henry.
He who #prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays. -John Owen -
To be saved is to be preserved in the #faith to the end. -John Bunyan -
Why do we think preaching is but the central act of Christian worship? As a matter of fact, everything else ought to build to the preaching of the Word, for that is when the God of whom we have been speaking and singing speaks to us from His eternal and perfect Word. -Al Mohler
"good works, although necessarily connected with faith, are nevertheless not necessary for the apprehension of the merits of Christ." - Zacharias Ursinus. Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, 337.
Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ. George Whitefield
The mysteries of the gospel, every time we think of them, should strike admiration into our hearts. —Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 6:261
Fundamentals are few; believe them, live well, and you shall be saved. This is the religion of most. To be willingly ignorant of the lesser ways of God is a sin. We should labor to know all that God hath revealed. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:259-260
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it. Martin Luther
"God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner." -Archibald Alexander
This is holy friendship, to acquaint God with our doubts, wants, griefs and fears; and we may do it with more confidence, because we go to him in Christ’s name. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:244
Victory over sin will never come if you do not wage war on the battlefield of your heart. STEVEN LAWSON
#God created man for nothing else but happiness. He created him only that He might communicate happiness to him. -Jonathan Edwards -
#God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance. -A.W. Tozer -
“We may say too much in a single sermon, we may give a field of wheat instead of a loaf of bread.” - Charles Spurgeon
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