Mercy isn’t a savings account. You don’t accumulate “credits” that God pays you in eternity. Mercy is a state of being that comes from Christ’s indwelling presence within you. A lack of mercy would suggest Christ’s character is not being formed in a person, and that he or she doesn’t know Him.
What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus Christ? Philippians spells it out.
First, we are called bondservants of Jesus Christ. A follower of Christ is going to serve His will. Second, we're called saints in Christ Jesus. Notice that the preposition changes. We are servants of Jesus and we are saints in Jesus.
The Bible gives you instruction and tells you what you ought to do when you come to Jesus Christ. Anything to do with witchcraft, reading Tarot cards, astrology or anything satanic, must be thrown away. Do not keep it in your house.
Sin is a Christian is like a diver’s dress on land—awkward
and harassing.
~John Trapp~
Whatever controls your thoughts, controls your life.
Let's ponder once more these tremendous words in Hebrews 13:20-21. When the Lord works in us unto obedience ("what is well pleasing in His sight"), He Himself is the one who appropriately receives the glory ("to whom be glory forever and ever").
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 are 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!'"
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.
“Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school.” – Jim Rohn
“There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, ‘I've got a new fundamental.’ That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.” – Jim Rohn
Dr. Norman Cousins said it best: "Words can produce illness; words can kill. Therefore, wise physicians are very careful about the way they communicate." Carefully choose the words you use to describe your health.
"Many times we are critical of our spouse because we do not have the same need that they have and consequently we view their need as excessive or marginal. But, when we look more deeply, we realize we have a comparable need - though different - which is equally as intense."
~Dr. Emerson
People do what you do, not what you say to do until they see you do it!
Lack of character makes one lie, cheat and steal.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.
ziglar
Men get more up set at the physical aspects of infidelity and women get more up set at the emotional aspects of it. God the word says don't do it no matter what...
You can not have power unless it is given to you from above!
God’s power is the best guard, the safest convoy and the
surest castle that any can have.
~William Gouge~
No matter what you do, remember, when God is busy in your life, there will always be opposition !
Christians don't offer good deeds as bribes, but rather as an example of God's love and the sacrifice He made for us personally.
Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing of him.
~Martin Luther~
We re-define ourselves according to our catastrophes. As a result, we settle for a small destiny!
The truth of Romans 11:29 is that God’s gifts and God’s call are under full warranty—never canceled, never rescinded.
None is a Christian minister who has not been ordained by the laying on of unseen hands.
~Richard Glover~
It is not about knowledge and wisdom it is about the anointing of God!
We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.
“In a media age, we assume that… when questions are asked, we must deliver the right answers. In every age, the truth is… when you want to deliver the right answers, ask good questions” (The Revolutionary Communicator, 48).
The Revolutionary Communicator, they argue that great leaders often have more question marks than exclamation marks at the end of their sentences. “Great communicators understand that well-formed questions can be wielded as a battle horn, soft and low at first, then growing as they echo from mind to heart and back again, serving as a clarion invitation to new possibilities and previously unconsidered truths (The Revolutionary Communicator, 49).
This world is the closest to Heaven unbelievers will ever know and the closest to Hell God’s children will ever know.
Randy Alcorn
Not every relationship is God-ordained.
“Any church not involved in the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.”
~Oswald J. Smith~
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
There is nothing as effective as spending time with Jesus to change our attitude, opinions, or general outlook on life.
It is only when we are in Jesus that true change can occur. Spend time with Jesus. Abide in Him, as He abides in you.
Place God first by developing an intimate friendship with Him. Then you will be ready for whatever God has planned for your life.
A Spirit-led believer lives a condemnation-free life.
“The more vile a man is, the more eagerly I invite him to believe in Jesus.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Each believer grows stronger as he points his brother to the Lord.” — Charles Spurgeon
Pastors who preach God's Word faithfully will be called boring only by those seeking something besides the faithful preaching of God's Word.
"Excellence does not fall into anyone's lap; it is the result of sustained, deliberate effort." - Andreas Köstenberger
Christ came to fight evil and conquer the enemy that creeps within us.” — Charles Spurgeon
Taking up my #cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God. -A.W. Pink -
God is to be feared, as also to be trusted. And we must not suffer our fear to degenerate into legal bondage, but hope in his mercy. So our trust must not degenerate into carnal sloth and carelessness, but so hope in his word and fear his name. —Thomas Manton, Works 7:281
Let our lamps be trimmed and burning and full of the oil of the Spirit. Above all, let us be a steady light to the lost ones. AB Simpson
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Augustine
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” - C.S. Lewis
“If all the angels were with me, I might fail. But if God is with me, I must succeed.” — Charles Spurgeon
“The way to be a fool is to pretend to be wise.” — Charles Spurgeon
“An independent Christian is a nonsensical category according to the Bible.” — Dane C. Ortlund, Deeper, 111.
Nothing moved the Lord to bestow life upon dead and graceless sinners but his mere pity and tender compassion. (1 Peter 1:3; Eph. 2:4; Titus 3:5) —Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 7:311
Let us lay our sins and sores before his pity. —Thomas Manton, Works 7:321
The more of Christ a man has, the more useful will he be in his day.” — Charles Spurgeon
May we all in this ministry learn its secrets, obey its call, and fulfill the purposes of our Lord. G. Campbell Morgan
Learn to pity and bewail the condition of the enemy... Bless God that thy lot did fall on the other side... How kindly, therefore, does God deal with us, when he chooses to afflict us but for a little, that with everlasting kindness he may have mercy upon us. John Bunyan
Learn to pity and bewail the condition of the enemy.... Never grudge them their present advantages. Wish them no ill with what they get of thine; it is their wages for their work, and it will appear to them ere long that they have earned it dearly. John Bunyan
Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the Cross: the Spirit of Christ and of Glory then rests upon them. George Whitefield
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. William Cowper
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. William Cowper
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. William Cowper
“Mistrust of God is not a mere weakness; it is a wickedness of the gravest order.” — Charles Spurgeon
"The free grace of Christ will produce far more effects on men’s lives than the sternest commands of the law." —JC Ryle
“The Scriptures have a constant tendency to display Christ.” — Charles Spurgeon
“There is a mutual delight in each other in the persons of the blessed Trinity, so that each divine person delights to glorify the rest.” — Charles Spurgeon
By the Spirit, we know this intuitively, and by our experience, we see how God has worked everything together for good previously. Therefore, we can trust Him to keep working for our good and for His glory. Courson
“We should never mistake the tenderness of our shepherd for weakness, or his care for us for carelessness about all that threatens us.” — David Gibson, The Lord of Psalm 23, 93.
“Jesus has something for the useless and for the worthless ones.” — Charles Spurgeon
“It must not be tolerated that Christ should be unknown through our silence.” — Charles Spurgeon
“The commands of the Bible are the steering wheel, not the engine, to your growth. They are vitally instructive, but they do not themselves give you the power you need to obey the instruction.” — Dane C. Ortlund, Deeper, 89.
It is in itself a great principle of consolation unto all true believers, an effectual means of their support and refreshment, to consider that not only is the Holy Ghost their comforter, but also that He is sent of the Father and the Son so to be. —John Owen, CW Works, 8:182
"By the second Adam, and union with Him, we have a spring of life and peace, and all that we lost in Adam; and more than all we lost, He being God-man." - Richard Sibbes. Works, 5:210.
For this is certain truth, that as no good either in you, or done by you, did move [God] to justify you, and give you eternal life, so no evil in you, or done by you, can move him to take it away from you, being once given. —The Marrow of Modern Divinity, Pg. 237
“If the Lord shall break your heart, consent to have it broken.” — Charles Spurgeon
“We associate God's glory and fame with his strength and salvation more than we do with his individual attention to those he has redeemed. But it is in God's nature to serve us as much as it is to save us.” — David Gibson, The Lord of Psalm 23, 111.
The knowledge that we are never alone calms the troubled sea of our lives and speaks peace to our souls. -A.W. Tozer -
God's Word is for all of us and each of us; He does not need to give particular messages to particular people. -Jonathan Edwards -
“To glorify God and to enjoy him forever is the only worthy end of mortal man.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Idolatry is simply pseudo justification. It is asking a created thing rather than the Creator to render a verdict over me.” — Dane C. Ortlund, Deeper, 101.
"Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer." -J.C.Ryle.
“Christ swears to bring us safely home and protects us from a thousand foes.” — Charles Spurgeon
What is weaker than a worm? Yet the Lord's worms shall, in his strength, thrash the mountains, and make the hills as chaff. - John Newton
“[Christians] will not hide [their] sins, but lay them open, before God. We will hate sin universally; not one sin, but every kind of sin, and that most of all which most rules in us, and which is most prevalent in our own hearts.” — Richard Sibbes
Vote for Jared Moore for SBC President and vote YES on the Law Amendment!
“Without faith, Christ is not ours.” — Charles Spurgeon
“The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.” R.C. Sproul
For every one look at the news, take ten looks at the Lord Jesus Christ. Steven Lawson
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble. John Owen
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's Word to man. Dustin Benge
The more theology we know the more it should drive us to seek to know God—not just to know about God but to know God. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The cross of Christ is the epicenter of our equality. We are all sinners. We all need a Savior. Dustin Benge
People have a tendency to criticize Peter for sinking due to his lack of faith. Just remember there were 11 other guys who wouldn’t even get out of the boat. John Macarthur
"A Christian, a true one, Never has a problem With this; to God alone be the glory." Paul Washer
Heaven will be full of thankful people asking, "Lord, why did You choose me?" Hell will be full of people demanding fairness and getting it. Burk Parsons
'There is no faith without God's word.' John Calvin
“I am the Lord’s, I am not at my own disposal; whatever others may do, I cannot comply, for I have given myself away to the Lord, to fight under his banner, against the devil, the world, and the flesh” Thomas Boston
Nothing stands between your soul and salvation but your love of sin.. Isaac Ambrose
“If we want proof of God’s love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God’s love for us.” Jerry Bridges
"Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell." Charles Spurgeon
No man who merely skims the Book of God can profit by it. The door of the Word is only opened by the key of diligence. Charles Spurgeon
We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts George Whitefield
“Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace.” — Charles Spurgeon
The Gospel message is: “Come just as your are, poor sinner, and cast yourself upon Christ, resting entirely upon the person, the blood, the righteousness of the once-crucified but now exalted Redeemer.” Charles Spurgeon
To love God only for his benefits is to love ourselves first Stephen Charnock
“If you are far from God, how can you hope that your children will be near to him?” — Charles Spurgeon
May God help us to love our children as He loves us. David Jeremiah
“I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist. I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist. But if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, 'It is Jesus Christ.'” — Charles Spurgeon
#God did not #love us because we love Him, but He loved us before we had a particle of love for Him. -A.W. Pink -
A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes #Christians more #holy. -J.C. Ryle
“Christ's eyes never slumber, his hands never rest, and his shoulders are never weary of carrying his people's burdens.” — Charles Spurgeon
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis
“As we grow more like Christ, we shall see more of Christ.” — Charles Spurgeon
The world can be hard on our hearts! Jesus invites us to live in His love. We don’t need to run from His love, be afraid of it, or fear the consequences. Ray Bentley
"Good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith: and by them believers...𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦…" —Westminster Confession of Faith, 16.2
Let us make it our chief care to get and preserve the fresh sense of God’s love upon our hearts, grudging at no labour: ‘Give diligence to make your calling and election sure…’ 2 Peter 1:10 —Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 7:317
Once we examine ourselves and acknowledge our sin, we can then bring it to Jesus. Chuck Smith
“Though your prodigal child is at the end of the earth, Christ can reach them and save them.” — Charles Spurgeon
“When a man admires himself, he never adores God.” — Charles Spurgeon
We must never look for such mercy and grace from God as shall discharge us from our duty and subjection to God, or give you liberty to dishonor and disobey him. Remember Christ’s design was ‘to take away sin’, not to take away obedience. —Puritan Thomas Manton
If a man trust in God, then he is kept holy, humble, carried on with a noble and divine spirit, and findeth more safety than another that hath all the strength and power of the world to support and back him. —Thomas Manton, Works 7:323
I solemnly believe that there is not a thing that God expects of man but that God will give the man power to do. There is not a claim God makes on you or me but God will stand up to, and will give what He commands. AB Simpson
We must never look for such mercy and grace from God as shall discharge us from our duty and subjection to God, or give you liberty to dishonor and disobey him. Remember Christ’s design was ‘to take away sin’, not to take away obedience. —Puritan Thomas Manton
“Lay hold upon the Word. Keep it, treasure it.” — Charles Spurgeon
If God rejoices over his people to do them good, he will rejoice in any opportunities offered to him to honour his goodness. He therefore delights in prayer. Never can we so delight in praying as he does in imparting. He delights more in our prayers than we can. Stephen Charnock
Here is comfort in our addresses to God. If He be a fountain and sea of goodness, He cannot be weary of doing good, no more than a fountain or sea are of flowing. Stephen Charnock
IF YOU RUSH IT, YOU’LL RUIN IT. LEARN TO PAUSE...PRAY...AND BE PATIENT.
MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT IN COMPETITION WITH PEOPLE GOD RECRUITED TO BE ON YOUR TEAM!
“MAKE TIME TO READ YOUR BIBLE. EVEN IF IT IS JUST ONE VERSE, YOU'RE STILL FEEDING YOUR FAITH.”
IF YOU GAVE IT TO GOD IN PRAYER LEAVE IT THERE!
"TOO MANY WANT TO BE CLOTHED WITH POWER, TOO FEW WANT TO BE STRIPPED OF PRIDE."
Keep your every touch with the world as light as possible. Chuck Smith
“I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin apart from his almighty love.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Are your friends so far away that you cannot reach them? Your prayers can reach them.” — Charles Spurgeon
Even in your hopelessness, God remains faithful. He loves you. He cares for you. And when the situation happens, it's going to happen quickly.
“Let us show our love for Christ by loving our fellow Christians.” — Charles Spurgeon
‘Ministers must continually remind themselves that the eye of the Lord Jesus is upon them, and that He takes careful notice of their frame of heart, their objective, and the zeal with which they engage in their ambassadorship.’ —Wilhelmus à Brakel
“Faithful obedience is the path to divine strength.” — Charles Spurgeon
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject #God's sovereignty in all things. -John Owen -
He that is down needs fear no fall. -John Bunyan -
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