In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.
When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.
Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
Don't coast through life without a passion.
And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
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