Understand who Jesus Christ is: to know Him is to love Him, to love Him is to trust Him; and to trust Him is to be radically, dramatically, and eternally transformed.
– Adrian Rogers –
Trust
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 –
Vacuum Dreams – Elisabeth Elliot
If your dreams turn to dust. Vacuum.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
My response to God’s ability – Corrie ten Boon
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
– Corrie ten Boon –
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 –
God hasn’t always answered my prayers – Ruth Bell Graham
God has not always answered my prayers. If he had, I would’ve married the wrong man—several times!
– Ruth Bell Graham –
wife of Billy Graham
Trust and Faith – EM Bounds
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
– EM Bounds –
Truly Trusting the Lord – Hannah Whitall Smith
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it?
– Hannah Whitall Smith –