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.
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
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.
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
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.
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.
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.
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.
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
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.
The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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.
Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.
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.
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
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
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