Dependence

May 26, 2012

This is what is so unique about the kingdom of heaven. In other kingdoms, the kings rule from without. Jesus rules from within [us]. Other kings are satisfied as we supply them; Jesus wants to supply us. Other kings desire that we defend them; Jesus wants to be our defense. Other kings want us to serve them; Jesus wants to serve through us. In our absolute poverty, helplessness, we have nothing to offer Him. He can be our total supply and source His life through us. The only blockade to this relationship is our own self-sourcing.

– Stephen Manley –
from “The Poor” (Matthew 5:3)

May 23, 2012

It was out of His goodness that He created you, and it is out oh His goodness that He will give you everything you need at the precise moment you need it. That is providence. He will oversee your life at all times and provide for you. He is the reason that you are breathing. And He is the reason you keep breathing.

– Steve Farrar –

May 22, 2012

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

May 21, 2012

Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God.

– Oswald Chambers –

May 15, 2012

Let Jesus be in you.

– Riley Patrick –
(age 9)

May 14, 2012

I am recklessly pursuing the high calling of being like Jesus. This is my truest joy and highest passion. To be lost in Him is my soul’s desire!

– Ben Zornes –

May 11, 2012

Christ Jesus is my life! (Colossians 3:4)
Would you stubbornly, purposefully, emphatically, and aggressively live like this today with me?

– Jeremiah Bolich –

May 10, 2012

All professing Christians should examine themselves and try their own state. It is not those outside the churches where the dead are to be found; there are only too many inside our churches, and close to our pulpits—too many on the benches, and too many in the pews. The land is like the valley in Ezekiel’s vision, “full of bones, very many, and very dry.” (Ezek. 37:2) There are dead souls in all our parishes, and dead souls in all our streets. There is hardly a family in which all live to God; there is hardly a house in which there is not someone dead. Oh, let us all search and look at home! Let us prove our own selves. Are we alive or dead?

– JC Ryle –

May 9, 2012

If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.

– George Müller –