Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.
Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.
Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
There is hope in forgiveness
Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.
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