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"A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God"
-Paul Washer
"WE have seen that men must be worse than insane (whatever they say) if they do not come to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation."
-John Calvin
“We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.”
-John Calvin
I tried to pray, and you know brothers and sisters, I was in this thing for 30 years and you never get to the place where you know how to pray, it tears you apart every day!
-Gerhard Du Toit
The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
-A.W. Tozer
"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected."
-Author unknown
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
-A.W.Tozer
“Preach the word purely and fully; mix nothing with it that does not belong to it, or may not evidently be inferred from its language. State every doctrine and opinion as near to the mind of the Spirit as you can ascertain. The doctrines of the word you will bring forth in their full import, without concealing them, or endeavouring to melt them down and mould them so as to suit the prejudiced and indolent depravity of the human heart. The gospel is not suited, and cannot be made to suit, the corrupt dispositions and inclinations of the carnal mind; but the faithful preaching of it is calculated to oppose and to overcome those evil prejudices so far as to excite men to attend to the doctrines it contains and the blessings it proposes. It is your duty, not to bring down the gospel into a conformity with them, but to change them into a conformity with the gospel.”
-Taken from The Works of Robert Hall, “The Substance of a Charge, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. J. K. Hall, at Kettering,
"Oh the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him!!!"
-Duncan Campbell
"We stink more of the world than we stink of of sack cloth and ashes. Alot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!"
-N. Cruz
"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds
"Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause to fear most preaching." Most preaching in the modern church is completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or racquetball to bother spending time on their knees. No wonder some pastors I've heard can more readily quote Dr. Laura then bible passages pertaining to prayer. It's disastrous. Satan need not fear under those conditions."
-A. Reavis
" Worship is the key to unshackling the future...(it).... is basic to the most rapid advancement of the the Kingdom of God."
Jack Hayford
"After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children sift through all we've left behind;
May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them to the road we each must find."
Sung by Steve Green " Find US Faithful"
" The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing." "So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!"
The Normal Christian Life
Watchman Nee
How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the question we must respond to the command...
"If you love me, you will obey what I command." John 14:15
True Love is complete obedience ... half obedience is no obedience. If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands. This is true love and true worship
Unknown
" Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane and on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the dstiny to which He has been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without ever a word of rebuke to His aversary!"
Francis Frangipane
The Spirit clothed himself,
He makes the record say,
With Gideon, so he became
As nothing in the fray,
But just a suit of working clothes
The Spirit wore that day
unknown author
How To Please God
How do you please God?
In many ways, of course. But what is the one way--a very basic way-- without which nothing else suffices?
What does it take to please you? What do you require, without which nothing else would satisfy you?
Is it not to be trusted?
What would you trade for the trust of your family, friends, peers, associates? If they wouldn't believe you--what else could they give you that would compensate?
Mistrust is alienation.
It is impossible to relate with those who will not believe you. To have your word doubted is humiliating. To have your promises refected is intolerable. Life without the trust of others would be unbearable.
What greater sin can we commit than to disbelieve God?
God deserves--and desires--our trust, our belief, our faith.
There is nothing we can do to please God if we deny Him our confidence and trust. Belief is the only possible foundation for a significant relationship with Him.
Some of us don't believe in Thee at all.
Others of us say we do, but we live as though we don't.
Some of us are too busy to give Thee much thought, except when we get into trouble; then we use Thee as a fire escape or life preserver, and forget Thee as soon as we're safe.
Some of us are secretly angry with Thee. Frankly, we feel we have been treated unjustly and we blame Thee.
Some of us see so much tragedy, so much injustice, so much pain in the world, that we cannot understand how a God of love could allow it.
Despite the fact that the Bible is filled with assurance of They unconditional love, concern and compassion, and Thou has promised never to leave us or forsake us, we choose not to believe Thee.
Forgive us, Lord. Help us to understand, to trust, to love and adore Thee.
In the name of Jesus, whose love for Thee and for us never fails. Amen.
(in the Senate, June 23, 1982)
"Make sure you are praising God on the right side of the sea." - A former pastor
Speaking of the Israelites at the Red Sea
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