We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
– EM Bounds –
Christian Life
Mercy outweighs affliction – Thomas Watson
Our mercies far outweigh our afflictions. For one affliction—we have a thousand mercies! The sea of God’s mercy swallows up our few drops of affliction!
– Thomas Watson –
The purpose of my life – Ian Thomas
My purpose is to make the invisible Christ visible.
– Ian Thomas –
The ONE Goal – Steve Case
Ask missionaries (regardless of age – 12 or 112) and they’ll tell you they have one goal – God. God first. God last. God in all things. Not to go out and feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, make busy with conversion activity, but God first. With God as the goal, the homeless get a roof, the hungry get fed, the cold get warmed, the lonely get a friend, and the wanderer finds a way.
– Steve Case –
Victorious fruitfulness comes via prayer – Jim Cymbala
The world has yet to see a Christlike, victorious fruitful believer who was not a person of considerable prayer.
– Jim Cymbala –
from Breakthrough Prayer
The Cross is needful – Samuel Rutherford
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford –
If we hunger deeply enough – Wesley L Duewel
If God’s people hunger deeply enough, God will hear and send revival. God requires more than casual prayers for revival. He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working. To seek God’s face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer. It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. It requires holy determination in prayer, examining ourselves to see if anything in our lives is hindering God.
– Wesley L Duewel –
Taking the Gospel too seriously – Leonard Ravenhill
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, “Leonard, you took Me too seriously?”
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Christians are to be happy at their death – Thomas Watson
See how happy are God’s saints at their death! They go to a kingdom! They see God’s face, which shines ten thousand times brighter than the sun in its meridian glory! They enter eternal glory, which is the quintessence of all delights!
– Thomas Watson –