All God's Promises Are Yes And Amen!
Christianity is not about happiness, It's about holiness. God is sanctifying a people to himself and you are being set apart from the world.
Denise Davenport
There is no pit so great that Jesus Christ is not greater.
Corrie Ten Boom ~ The Hiding Place
There is no hope in self, Jesus said apart from me you can do nothing. True hope comes by knowing Jesus and letting Him be your Lord.
A Christian is the world’s Bible.
~D. L. Moody~
If people are watching and all they see are uncaring or condemning Christians, why would they want to become one? LOVE< LOVE< LOVE
Don't worry about life's storms; your lifeguard walks on water.
While God created us with the capacity for strong emotions, it is our responsibility to control them instead of allowing them to control us.
Remember, in all we do, we should bring honor and glory to the Lord. In order to glorify God, we have to act according to His will and not our own.
Nothing lies beyond the power of man if it is within
the will of God.
~James E. Crowther~
"I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my mentor straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problem is that you can't afford it.’ That's when I finally understood that the problem wasn't ‘it’ - the problem was ‘ME!’
Christianity isn't a religion... it's a relationship with the One, True, Living God. Religions would have you worship someone who is dead. But those who believe in Jesus Christ worship and serve the God who is alive!
If you don't have the answers get before God in prayer and read His word!
Our authority ends with God's word, Our accountability never ends...
Listen before you speak
Ask questions before you give answers. Show the love of Jesus.
Date Till Death: Before you got married, you used to get excited when you anticipated a date. You would squeal with joy! You would clean up, dress up and freshen up. Do not be complacent and don't take your spouse for granted. To stay married you need to keep dating. Rekindle the spark, spice up and keep the fire burning. Date your spouse again and recreate the good days. The return on investment will surprise you. - Isaac Kubvoruno
Dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you; compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered.
(Colossians 3:12)
If he can so can we, get off the couch
The Bread of Life, Jesus, gives us hope for the future. Knowing that we can hold on to Him during the dark nights of our lives and that He will be with us when we wake in the morning and will feed us, nourish us, and nurture us, is what will enable us to carry on.
Ray Bentley
Are you sure you want your personality taken over by One who will require obedience to the written Word? …Who will strip away from you many loved objects which secretly harm your soul? Unless you can answer … yes…You may want the thrill of the victory or the power, but you do not want to be filled with the Spirit.
~A.W. Tozer~
The human tendency to self-justification can make it hard for us to acknowledge times when our anger leads us to sin.
The Bible offers advice for anger with your fellow man. Let God handle retribution. He is the only one with the right to judge. It’s easy to allow resentment to take root, so choose unity with your neighbor instead.
“What do you do to go to hell? Nothing! Just do nothing that’s all. You don’t have to thumb your nose at God, you don’t have to blaspheme the name of Jesus, you don’t have to be an adulterer. Just coast on! For the greatest sin in the world is not adultery! The greatest sin in the world is,
‘I can manage my life without God.’
That’s the greatest sin.”
Leonard Ravenhill
Many attend church weekly but avoid God daily
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard. He is absolutely holy with an infinite incomprehensible fullness of purity that is incapable of being other than it is.
~A. W. Tozer~
“All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still ‘about to be’.”—C.S. Lewis
The cardinal error against which the gospel of Christ has to contend is the effect of the tendency of the human heart to rely on salvation by works.
~C. H. Spurgeon~
Many feel that un-acted upon impulses or thoughts is not really a sin. It only becomes sin if it is acted upon. Jesus clears this up for us in Matthew 5:28: "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Neglect can kill as much as persecution.”
William Barclay
Jesus, the perfect Sacrificial Lamb, was crucified on a Passover. He ROSE from the dead on the following First Fruits Feast. We celebrate this as Resurrection Day. Since Jesus’s resurrection is the foundation of Christianity… It is attacked! Even trying to rename it and celebrate bunnies and eggs! Instead of talking about the evils of the word Easter’s roots… let’s talk about HIM RISEN and that we can rise also by believing in Him.
"God is in control, and therefore in everything, I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it." — Kay Arthur
Jesus came for the 1st time as a sacrificial lamb to die for our sins. He was oppressed and afflicted - didn't defend Himself. Soon, He will return as the "Lion of the tribe of Judah", as a KING ready for battle to reign over the earth. The time to come to Jesus the Lamb is now!!
Have you ever felt puzzled when a plan you thought was perfect, didn't work out and you were shifted in a completely different direction? As new events began to shape did you also wonder, what would come of this? If you have, then you have probably had a God experience.
God is alive, active, and concerned about us. When we get off track, He intervenes. He uses these interventions or interruptions to instruct and correct as well as to bring us back into fellowship and relationship with Him.
Just as the resurrection had an essential role in our starting out with God (in justification), it also plays an irreplaceable part in our going on with God (in sanctification). In the new covenant of grace, the resurrection is involved from start to finish in the Christian life.
One of Satan's most effective weapons against us is
discouragement. When we are properly equipped with the helmet of
salvation, it's hard to stay discouraged. Our hope isn't in our self, or
even in our ability to keep our self close to Jesus. Our hope is in
Jesus Himself.
The greatest defeat comes when I allow my mistakes, sins or broken relationships to convince me that I might as well give up.
Selfish feeding on our own troubles, and continual pouring over our sorrows, are melancholy misery in which many spend their lives.J.C. Ryle
There is only one perspective, the right one, the one rooted and grounded in Christ.
Rather than using your financial education to just make you rich, use your financial education to enrich the lives of others too.
Don't let the true colors of others dim your rainbow. Shine bright and beautiful
Today, we would not think of yelling across the church to ask someone a question during the message, but I have seen wives and husbands talking during the message. They may not be disturbing the people around them but how can the Holy Spirit minister to them if they cannot stop talking to hear the message?
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak!
~Francois Fenelon~
If you’re not thankful for what you already have, you probably won’t be thankful for anything you’re going to get.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know…what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 1:18-20)
Just as the resurrection had an essential role in our starting out with God (in justification), it also plays an irreplaceable part in our going on with God (in sanctification). In the new covenant of grace, the resurrection is involved from start to finish in the Christian life.
Rather than dividing Christians into denominations with labels and factions, Paul instructs we are to be devoted to the brother sitting next to us. Including all of our brothers and sisters in Christ regardless of which church is attended -- Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, affiliated or not -- we are all part of the same body and represent the entire spectrum of Christianity as God intended
I was walking across the Golden Gate Bridge when I saw a man prepared to jump. I tried to convince him not to commit suicide and told him simply that God loved him. I noticed a tear came to his eye.
"Are you a Christian?" I asked.
"Yes," he said.
"Me too!
What a small world. What denomination?"
"Baptist."
"Me too!" I spoke.
"Southern or American?"
"American," he answered.
"Wow," I said. "It's a miracle, me too!
Are you American Baptist Conservative or American Baptist Liberal?"
"American Baptist Liberal."
"Die, you heretic, die," I said as I pushed him off the bridge.
ARE WE NOT ALL ONE IN CHRIST?
Sin pays—but it pays in remorse, regret and failure.
~Billy Graham~
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. That's why we need to help each other, build each other up in the faith, and sharpen each other "as iron sharpens iron" (Proverbs 27:17).
Open your eyes. Look and search out ways to serve.
The sight of God’s glory humbles.
The stars vanish when the sun appears.
~Thomas Watson~
Where grace is lacking, bitterness abounds. Where grace abounds, forgiveness grows. Forgiveness may not happen all at once. But it can happen with you.
An attitude of humility and harmony is an attitude of love!
Believing and obeying always run side by side.
~C. H. Spurgeon~
Deception generally happens very slowly and very subtly. Today we live in a world where a group of people gathering together may call themselves a "church," but are far from it. Many places that have the word "church" in their name aren't really the same church that Jesus talks about.
Many people will claim to have supernatural answers that seem good on the surface, but when one strips away the rhetoric and charisma, the content is blatantly contrary to the Scriptures.
When a half-truth is presented as a whole truth
it becomes an untruth.
~Walter J. Chantry~
Christian, take good care of your faith, for faith is the only way in which you can obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne unless it is the earnest prayer of the man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.
Jesus endured Calvary so that we can live an abundant life. He suffered to set us free.
Often our lives can become such a mess, people may stare and think there is no possible way this person can rebuild their life––they are done. But God can take a broken life and restore a person––fully and completely. God can do a tremendous work in our lives as He builds us spiritually–– He beautifies us. Psalm 90:17 tells us: And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
Is your life in a mess? The answer to your distress is to ask the Lord to rebuild your life––so He can use your hands to build His kingdom.
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the humble with salvation.
If you want to be just like Jesus—spend time listening for him in his word until you have received your lesson for the day. Then apply it!
Truth is revealed by what is done, not by what is said. It's easy to make excuses or place blame on other people for what's happened in life. It's also easy to talk about making changes. What's hard is to actually do it. In other words, our actions always unveil what we believe and the true nature of our hearts.
Faith is the master key of the Christian life.
~Ronald Dunn~
When God challenges us to do a work for Him, we need to have great faith. Faith is the key to our success in whatever God has called us to do. Without faith we will be defeated. It is important to understand that we are constantly on the move in this life, but when we get to heaven, we shall be there forever, worshipping in the presence of God.
NEVER THINK YOU HAVE ARRIVED
No reserves. No retreat. No regrets.
~William Borden~
Chuck Smith said, “If you cannot govern your spirit now or take care of your problems now, it might be that you could become a regretful person one day.”
Now is the time, today is the day.... Don't wait..
Discipline your life so that every minute counts for the Lord. Be careful to focus on what the Lord wants you to do. That is the only way you are going to gain ground.
“When you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ‘it is talking to me and about me.’”— Soren Kierkegaard
“If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.” —C.S. Lewis
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground, has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
~A.W. Tozer~
If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. ~E.M. Bounds~
Being a disciple of Jesus Christ can never be reduced to merely producing Christian character in ourselves or loving one another, as important as those things are. Being a disciple of Jesus means making other disciples.
John MacArthur
Here I am, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; ... send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in Thy service, and to promote Thy Kingdom.”
~David Brainerd~
I believe God saves a person and anoints them for a purpose. They are not called to be saved and then to sit and do nothing. He has a certain mission for them to fulfill on earth.
Raul Ries
“Redemption is the liberation of man through Christ and the Holy Spirit from forces and thralldoms that hold him bound, individually and collectively.”—
John Mackay
fear, doubt, anxiety, unbelief, discouragement — rush in, we must immediately take those thoughts captive. Captive to the Truth of God’s Word. The Truth of who we are as children of the One true god.
Wendy Blight
When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn’t always win – it’s usually the team that gets along best.
~John Maxwell~
“Other nations have been our teachers in art and wisdom and government. But Israel is our mistress in pain and patience.”
George Adam
“There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.”
~C. H. Spurgeon~
If you are discouraged today, the Lord holds you so close. He desires to comfort you with His presence and soothe your worries and hopelessness. Lean on Him for support and rest in Him!
Prayer, as it comes from the saint, is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
~Thomas Watson
I ask that our people devote themselves to a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt~
Grace is the gift of a loving Father who desires to bless His children.
“Emotionally healthy people understand the limits God has given them. They joyfully receive the one, two, seven, or ten talents God has so graciously distributed. As a result, they are not frenzied and covetous, trying to live a life God never intended.”
Peter Scazzero
Sin was conquered on the Cross. Christ’s death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
~Billy Graham~
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.
~N. T. Wright~
I firmly believe that marriage is meant to make us holy—but holiness also includes joy. A godly marriage will also be a happy marriage. In 1 Timothy 6:6, Paul wrote that “godliness with contentment is great gain” (ESV). Contentment is a heart attitude that does not strive for more than what it has. A contented marriage is a happy marriage, a marriage brimming with fulfillment.
Lisa Jacobson
I have often seen what happens when God does a new work, false teachers start to evangelize new converts to draw them to their own religion. Be careful of false teachings. Know that God’s wisdom does not come by reading other books offered by false religions. Those who insist you have to read their books are heretics. You only need one book––the Bible.
Raul Ries
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
~George Muller~
Christians are complete in Jesus Christ. He becomes their Wonderful Counselor. God’s Word is free! Do not get caught up with the philosophies of men; their words are empty and deceitful. Jesus has all wisdom, and in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Jesus is the Head of the Church––believers. Seriously, you do not need anything else––just Jesus Christ––period.
Raul Ries
Heaven is a reality, not seen by eyes of flesh, but made known by revelation and received by faith.
~Archibald Alexander~
Perhaps you are feeling utterly hopeless in this life. Embrace the hope found in the Word of the truth of the gospel! If you choose to repent of your sin and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, He will lift you from hopelessness into a heavenly hope.
“We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.”
Jen Wilkin
Have you ever noticed the difference in the Christian life between work and fruit? A machine can do work; only life can bear fruit.
~Andrew Murray~
The pastor who is not praying is playing-the people who are not praying are straying. -Leonard Ravenhill -
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. -A.W. Tozer -
Jonathan Edwards
If works were the condition of eternal life, there would be a great deal more probability of men's obedience being merely mercenary, and purely from respect to self, and not from a gracious respect to God and Jesus Christ.
Steven Lawson
The Bible does not avoid controversy—it creates it.
The king in America-you say there isn't one. Yes there is, his name is King Sport and his wife is Queen Entertainment. -Leonard Ravenhill -
No sinner ever comes to Christ until the Holy Spirit first comes to him. -A.W. Pink -
Jerry Bridges
God's inexpressible generosity does not stop at saving us; it provides for all our needs and blessings throughout our entire lives.
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. Charles Spurgeon
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Great sinners, when pardoned and received to mercy, should excel all others in love to Christ; Luke 7:42, 43. —Puritan John Flavel, Works 6:258
Shall poor sinners neither hear any thing from us, nor see any thing from you, that may help them to Christ? —John Flavel, Works 1:558
Though believers are not privelaged from backslidings, yet they are secured from final apostasy and ruin. The new creature may be sick, but it cannot die. Saints may fall, but they shall rise again. —Puritan John Flavel, Works 1:352
"Illustrations well used never upstage the teaching of Scripture; instead, it brings its message home concretely and eloquently, gripping the heart and enlarging the understanding." -Rosalie de Rosset
"Prayer can never be in excess. You can salt meat too much, but you cannot salt your ministry too much with prayer." — Charles Spurgeon
"Never could there be a better Master, for his service is freedom, his rule is love." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove." — Charles Spurgeon
Though some sins are more heinous than others, yet no sinner should absolutely despair of mercy. —John Flavel, Works 6:257
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. D.L. Moody
God has set apart His people from before the foundation of the world to be His chosen and peculiar inheritance. Charles Spurgeon
"Do not refuse the Lord Jesus who knocks at your door, for he knocks with a hand which was nailed to the tree." — Charles Spurgeon
We should be fed and filled by the life of Christ in such a way that the evil does not really touch our life. AB Simpson
"O how foolish must we be, if we do not live in habitual communion with Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon
“There can be no conversion without conviction, and there can be no conviction apart from the Spirit of God using the Word of God and the witness of the child of God.” - Warren Wiersbe
"God never loves you less, he cannot love you more." — Charles Spurgeon
"Search the inspired book and desire to know everything it teaches." — Charles Spurgeon
The Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” - C.S. Lewis
Hear what Christ says: ‘If your brother has committed a fault against you convince him of it’, he did not say ‘between him and the whole town’, nor, ‘between you and the whole people’, but only between you and him. —John Chrysostom, Homily Against Publishing Errors of Brethren
"Men might be willing for Christ to save them, but not for him to reign over them." — Charles Spurgeon
"This world is dark as midnight; Jesus has come that by faith we may have light." — Charles Spurgeon
"Bad men delight in carnal objects; do not envy them. Look to a better delight." — Charles Spurgeon
"Live entirely upon Christ. Living by feelings is a deadly form of life." — Charles Spurgeon
He certainly renders the greatest service to his country who promotes the cause and advances the interests of religion. - William Wilberforce
"Our money we may lose, but our treasure is safe." — Charles Spurgeon
"To us, true prayer is true power." — Charles Spurgeon
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. Jesus saves you, then changes you.
The internal mission of the Bible is to transform the nature of humanity. That is why unbelievers know it is a dangerous text. Rosaria Butterfield
"If we fear God, we have nothing else to fear." — Charles Spurgeon
The moment you attempt it (trying to make yourself righteous), you’ll see your own blackness and darkness. You can’t. You can’t change yourself. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
‘My sin is that my heart is pleased or troubled as things please or trouble me, without my having a regard to Christ; . . . Give me, then, repentance, true brokenness, lasting contrition, for these things thou wilt not despise in spite of my sin.’ — The Valley of Vision
Don't mistake God's love and grace for the false belief that He affirms and celebrates sin.
ust as the resurrection had an essential role in our starting out with God (in justification), it also plays an irreplaceable part in our going on with God (in sanctification). In the new covenant of grace, the resurrection is involved from start to finish in the Christian life.
In the closing paragraphs of the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis wrote about the death of some of his characters: “For them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world…had only been the cover and title page; now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read; which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before.“
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.
The Bible teaches that our “body is the temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:19). When we first put our faith in Jesus Christ, He cleanses our temple. Filthy habits are banished. A new purpose and a new focus in life grip us. But sometimes as time passes, a few of the old things find their way back in again. And our lives become cluttered with things that don’t belong.
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