If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
– David Livingstone –
Hardship
May 28, 2015
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most, especially when your teacher is the Lord Jesus Himself…No athlete complains when the training is hard. He thinks of the game, the race, and the prize.
– Corrie ten Boom –
May 27, 2015
We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgens but we don’t want to pay the price they paid.
– Paul Washer –
March 15, 2015
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.
– GK Chesterton –
March 12, 2015
The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe – the glorification of the grace and power of his Son—the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.
March 11, 2015
And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.
March 10, 2015
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
March 9, 2015
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.
March 8, 2015
The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, “Here comes my food!”