The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.
The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.
Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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