"Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak. Sometimes it simply means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and grow." -
Taylor Swift
"Time will put out the sun, the lamp of the moon will grow dim in ages yet to come, but neither time nor age shall quench a solitary spark of heaven-born grace and light." -
Charles Spurgeon
The more you know of Christ, the less you’ll be satisfied with this fleeting world.
Dustin Benge If you cannot magnify God, it is probably because you are magnifying yourself.
After working in our hearts a willingness to obey Him, the Lord also wants to work in us until we are doing His will. Yes, willing and doing are two different matters. We easily forget this distinction. We wrongly assume that once the willingness is present, the doing will inevitably follow. Jesus revealed the fallacy of this thinking in a well-known warning to His disciples. "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26:41).
According to Scripture, we know we are to make some judgments. So how do we know if we are using an attitude of condemnation or love? Answer: Are we willing to participate in the restoration? In John 13:1-5, Jesus got up from the meal as He noticed the Disciples' dirty feet (John 13). Did He say, "You have dirty feet, wash them now, it's a disgrace!" No, instead our Lord began to wash their feet Himself. So too, we have no right to point out someone's dirty deeds unless we are willing to get out the washcloth to help.
At the cross of Christ, the blood that brings eternal blessings to all who believe in Him was shed: "through the blood of the everlasting covenant." The Lord promised these eternal benefits to His people through the prophets of old.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
A.W. Tozer
The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? -
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Obedience is about pleasing God, doing "what is well-pleasing in His sight." This is why Christ died for us. "He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again" Living to please self is the ultimate disobedience to God. As God's children, we want to live for His approval. "Walk as children of light…proving what is acceptable to the Lord"
Listen for the alarm sounding in your heart, the conviction of the Holy Spirit. He warns you of anything you are not doing right. If you need to change your priorities and the motives for why you are serving in the house of the Lord, pray and ask God to help you start today! He desires to bless your life. Understand that putting Him first will bring blessings.
There is no merchandise like the merchandise of scriptural truth.
Anxiety doesn't define you! Give control over to God and trust that He is who He is and you are who He says you are. You are loved and cared for by the God who created you and is with you every moment of your life.
Throughout eternity, God is to be glorified and magnified by all. "I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice: 'Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!' And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that is in them, I heard saying: 'Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!'" (Revelation 5:11-13).
Bob Hoekstra
Place God first by developing an intimate friendship with Him. Then you will be ready for whatever God has planned for your life.
Raul Ries
A Spirit-led believer lives a condemnation-free life. It doesn’t mean there won’t be failures. It doesn’t mean there won’t be inconsistencies. But the Bible says there is no condemnation.
God sees us for what we will become, not just what we are. We see the past; God sees the future. We see the end; God sees a new beginning.
Greg Laurie
An individual can recognize and identify their sin and flesh in one of two tones, pride or repentance. Every person, regardless of the specific sin, has a coming-out moment. For the Christian coming out means repentance and choosing to live for Christ. For the unbeliever coming out means pride and choosing to live for self. We must remember that pride itself is also a sin, as a matter of fact, it’s the very sin that caused Satan himself to fall. James says, “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” This month we are reminded of how desperately our country needs to humble itself and repent of its sin and return to Jesus. 2 Chronicles 7:14, although it is speaking of Israel and the Jewish people, seems so applicable to us in saying, “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Nathan Heitzig
It is God's desire that the holy demands of the law be increasingly lived out in our lives. This would amount to a life of obedience. The law itself could never produce this. "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh" (Romans 8:3).
Bob Hoekstra
"When my soul is full of Christ, I can defy the devil himself." —
Charles Spurgeon
The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. He’s headed to hell.
“A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.”
Thomas Watson
"If you love the Lord, live as if you loved him." —
Charles Spurgeon
Preach to broken hearts, for in every pew you are sure to find some.
The Gospel shames every human attempt to be acceptable to God.
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