Self-denial surely means something far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!
– Hudson Taylor –
Power
June 15, 2012
We have to learn to rely on the Holy Spirit because He alone gives the Word of God life. All our efforts to pump up faith in the Word of God is without quickening, without illumination. You reason to yourself and say, “Now God says this and I am going to believe it,” and you believe it, and re-believe it, and re-re-believe it, and nothing happens, simply because the vital power that makes the words living is not there.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Biblical Ethics
May 30, 2012
A man is dead when he no longer resists the will of God in anything. Dead men do not resist. You must go to God as a lamb, to obey, follow and die.
– Thomas Haire –
May 27, 2012
Preaching has no value unless it is the demonstration of the Spirit and of [His] power!
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
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 25, 2012
These days of ours have sore need of a generation of praying men, a band of men and women through whom God can bring his great and his greatest movements more fully into the world. The Lord our God is not straitened within himself, but he is straitened in us, by reason of our little faith and weak praying. A breed of Christian is greatly needed who will seek tirelessly after God–who will give him no rest, day and night, until he hearkens to their cry. The times demand praying men who are all athirst for God’s glory, who are broad and unselfish in their desires, quenchless for God, who seek him late and early, and who will give themselves no rest until the whole earth be filled with his glory.
– EM Bounds –
May 19, 2012
The greatest Old or New Testament saints were on a level that is quite within our grasp. The same power that was available to them is also available to us.
– Dr. Goulburn –
Dean of Norwich
May 15, 2012
Let Jesus be in you.
– Riley Patrick –
(age 9)
May 13, 2012
A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
– JC Ryle –