To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.
– AW Tozer –
Christian Life
Desperate Times Without Desperate Prayer – Chuck Smith
Today, we are living in desperate times. Yet, the Church is not desperate before God in prayer.
– Chuck Smith –
Paupers in Spirit – Oswald Chambers
We will never receive if we ask with an end in view; if we ask, not out of our poverty but out of our lust. A pauper does not ask from any other reason than the abject panging condition of his poverty, he is not ashamed to beg. Blessed are the paupers in spirit.
– Oswald Chambers –
Worrying Empties Today of Its Strength – Corrie ten Boom
Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength—carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
– Corrie ten Boom –
There Is No Life or Victory Outside of Jesus
There’s no life or victory outside the Person of Jesus Christ. Before God is able to fill us with His Spirit, we must be emptied of “self.”
– Unknown –
What God Can Do With A Broken Heart – Samuel Chadwick
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.
– Samuel Chadwick –
God is our True Friend – François Fénelon
God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.
– François Fénelon –
(1651-1715)
No Excuse To Stay Where You Are – Eric Ludy
There is absolutely no excuse to stay where you are at right now. If you are weak, He can make you strong. If you are timid He can make you brave. If you are a pervert, He can make you pure. If you are selfish, He can make you selfless. If you are a shepherd, He can make you a king. If you are mediocre, He can make you a Mighty One of valor.
– Eric Ludy –
from Wrestling Prayer
True Revival – Ben Zornes
True revival results in a new culture.
– Ben Zornes –