Dependence

February 16, 2014

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

– Thomas Brooks –

February 11, 2014

Do not wait until you enter into temptation to ask for the help of Jesus. But let your life beforehand always be through Jesus. Let His nearness be your one desire. Jesus saves from sin, and to have Jesus is salvation from sin. Oh, that we could rightly understand this! The saving from sin is not an occasional event … When Jesus fills me, when Jesus is all for me, sin has no hold on me.

– Andrew Murray –

February 9, 2014

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon divine grace.

– Brother Lawrence –

February 7, 2014

You don’t have the desire to be fully God’s unless He puts that desire within you. And what God starts, He finishes.

– Ben Zornes –

February 6, 2014

There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

February 5, 2014

You may have your own bed, but I know God’s grace.

– Jackie Pullinger –

January 31, 2014

We have not to produce out of our higher nature a lowliness and a patience and a purity of our own, but simply to let the pure, patient, lowly life of Jesus have its way in us by yieldingness to it and by faith in its indwelling might. “All that God wants from man is opportunity.” The whole of our relationship to His power, whether for sanctification or for service, is summed up in those words.

– Lilias Trotter –

January 29, 2014

Jesus doesn’t just prepare us today for tomorrow – He prepared us yesterday for today.

– Shalea Nellis –

January 27, 2014

Look unto Jesus. So often people say to me, “Oh but Corrie, you have such a great faith.” But I have not a great faith. I have a small faith, but it is a faith in a great God. And it is not written in the Bible, “Let us look unto faith.” In Hebrews 12 it says, “Let us look unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith.” Look around, and be distressed. Look within, and be depressed. Look at Jesus, and be at rest.

– Corrie ten Boom –