Freely Give?

If you struggle to give freely to others, you have become more attached to the gift than the Giver.
~ Henry Blackaby

The Enemy Steals Joy and Peace

Then enemy can't steal your salvation, but he can steal all its pleasure - your joy and your peace. 
~ Chris Tiegreen

Fire and Power

God is all Fire and all Power., and He longs to baptize His blood-bought Church with a baptism of fire and power - that the world might know. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Root of Faith

"The root of faith is the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest snares is that God is sure to lead us to success." ~ Henry Blackaby

Step of Obedience

"You will always be one step of obedience away from the next truth God wants to learn about Him." ~ Henry Blackaby

My Goal...

My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. ~ Oswald Chambers

What Do Your Grip the Tightest?

The least valuable commodity that we have - material possessions - is that which we grip the tightest. 

~ Chris Tiegreen

Hope Can See

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds. 

~ Thomas Benton Brooks

Riches of Glory

Oh, if we would only stop trying to make the Holy Spirit our servant and begin to live in His life as the fish lives in the sea, we would enter into the riches of glory about which we know nothing now. 

~ A.W. Tozer

Winning the Battle

"Identifying the real enemy is halfway to winning the battle." ~ Charles Ringma

Bondslave

I am not to be a superior person amongst men, but a bondslave of the Lord Jesus. ~ Oswald Chambers

Faith...

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

How to Live...

There is more anxiety about how to make a living than about how to live. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Make a Life...

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill

Light and Darkness...

Light and not darkness, freedom and not enslavement, obedience and not rebellion now become a radical possibility for those who put their trust in Christ the Victor. ~ Charles Ringma

Pleasures?

No matter how many pleasures satan offers you, his ultimate purpose is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority. ~ Erwin Lutzer

Long for Pentecost

"We long for Pentecost in our lives and in our churches, but there is no Pentecost without Gethsemane and a cross." 

~ Henry Blackaby

Extravagance

A church should be marked by extravagance. Extravagant joy, hope, kindness, generosity, grace, and forgiveness.

~ Mark Buchanan

Seek Him

'There are joyless souls filling our churches, souls who have not fully placed the Lord before their eyes. They believe He is up there, but they have not found Him relevant because they have not sought Him intimately." Chris Tiegreen

Greatest Fight

One of the greatest fights is the fight to bend our knees....We can either bend our knees, or He can break our legs. 

~ Beth Moore

You Are Not Alone

As a follower of Jesus—whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your circumstances—you are not alone. He is with you in the midst of your service, in the face of uncertainty, or in the moment of crisis. 

~ Jesse C. Middendorf

All on the Altar

We need to lay before God all that is in us and not what we think should be in us. ~ C.S. Lewis

Actions Speak Loudest

The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.
 ~ A.W. Tozer

Hope in Him

"Yes, in all material things we dare to be utterly independent of men, because we dare to believe utterly in God. We have cast away all other hope, because we have unfounded hope in Him." ~ Watchman Nee

Emotions...

Our emotions can be moved by many things. Their movement does not make what moved them holy. ~ Alicia Chole

God Loves...

God loves the inconsiderate co-worker, the salesman at the door, the noisy people in the next apartment, the disappointing teacher, the rude clerk at the store, and the pokey driver ahead of us. God loves, not tolerates, all of us at all times.

 ~ Aletha Hinthorn

Sharing Pain

"When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand." 

~ Henry Nouwen  (Out of Solitude)

Hiding Vs. Dealing...

"Sometimes it is easier to hide behind self rejection and loathing rather than deal with specific areas of sin that the Lord points out to us. But what is easier often becomes a snare, never allowing us to truly take personal responsibility for our actions. For example, it can be easier to say, "I am a horrible person and utterly hopeless, so why even try?" than to say. "I repent of my selfish anger and with God's grace, choose to work with Him so I no longer live in this anger any longer" 

~ Katherine Walden

Secret Place

"When we live in the secret place it becomes impossible for us to doubt God, we become more sure of Him than anything else." 

~ Oswald Chambers

Detach from This World

I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way? ~ A.W. Tozer