Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.
– Alan Redpath –
Surrender
Take Up Your Cross – AW Pink
Taking up my “cross” means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
– AW Pink –
Commit Everything to God – AW Pink
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
– AW Pink –
Give up ALL for Christ – George Whitefield
There is no being a Christian without giving up all for Christ. We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.
– George Whitefield –
May 22, 1740
Guidance Demands Obedience – Elisabeth Elliot
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Nothing to Great or Small – AW Pink
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
– AW Pink –
Release your grasp on the temporal – Jim Elliot
Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –
Confess Our Sins – Alan Redpath
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath –
Is the Bible the authority in your life? – Dustin Benge
Consistently neglecting Bible intake is simply a way of saying, “The Bible is not an authority under which I’m willing to submit.”
– Dustin Benge –