Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents are our stumbling blocks!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
salvation
Reconciliation with God – Thomas Chalmers
Christ is able to save to the uttermost. He addeth intercession now to the atonement which he hath already made once for all. What a blessed apparatus of reconciliation with God! He who pleadeth for us at God’s right hand is omnipotent to save – and willing as He is able.
– Thomas Chalmers –
1780-1847
Where our fears come from – Charles Spurgeon
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Walking in Christ – Thomas Boston
There can be no walking in Christ, without a true receiving of him; and there cannot be a true receiving of him without walking in him.
– Thomas Boston –
Wrestling in Prevailing Prayer – Vance Havner
It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.
– Vance Havner –
Sweetness of God’s Mercy – William Secker
Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery we will never relish the sweetness of God’s mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us… If you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your heart!
– William Secker –
Earnest in God’s Word – Frederick W. Robertson
In God’s world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
– Frederick W. Robertson –
Our Duty – Jeremiah Burroughs
Now what am I to do? What can I think now are those duties that God requires of me in the circumstances that he has now put me into? Let me exert my strength to perform the duties of my present circumstances. Others spend their thoughts on things that disturb and disquiet them, and so they grow more and more discontented. Let me spend my thoughts in thinking what my duty is, what is the duty of my present circumstances which I am in?
– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
What the Bible tells us – AW Tozer
The Holy Scriptures tell us what we could never learn any other way: they tell us what we are, who we are, how we got here, why we are here, and what we are required to do while we remain here.
– AW Tozer –