The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in 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
The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
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.
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.
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.
Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
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
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.
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
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
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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.
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.
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