O Lord my God, in you I put my trust. Psalms 7:1
“O God, one day we will laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from you.”
– George Macdonald –
Spiritual Gifts
Best gifts are on the lowest shelf – DL Moody
When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down.
– DL Moody –
Mighty deeds and multitude of words – AW Tozer
Where there have been mighty deeds, there need be no multitude of words to tell of them. Many words are required only where the deeds have been too feeble to speak for themselves.
– AW Tozer –
A demonstration of the supernatural – Duncan Campbell
The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
– Duncan Campbell –
Gracious Gratitude – Chuck Colson
Edwards [Jonathan Edwards] calls the deeper, primary form of thankfulness “gracious gratitude.” It gives thanks not for goods received, but for who God is: for His character—His goodness, love, power, excellencies—regardless of favors received. And it’s real evidence of the Holy Spirit working in a person’s life.
– Chuck Colson –
The Motive From Which the Gift Springs – Charles Spurgeon
Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Gift of the Holy Spirit – Andrew Murray
A man gives another a piece of bread or a piece of money. He gives it away and has nothing further to do with it. It is not so with God’s gift of the Holy Spirit. No, the spirit is God. God is in the Spirit who comes to us, even as he was in the Son. The gift of the Spirit is the most personal act of the Godhead. It is the gift of Himself to us.
– Andrew Murray –
from Experiencing the Holy Spirit
Give Thanks – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anything I cannot thank God for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. … We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Turn Your Gifts and Talents Over to God – AW Tozer
Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God’s loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own. We have no more right to claim credit for special abilities than for blue eyes or strong muscles. “For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?” (1 Corinthians 4:17).
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God