Look at Jesus

If I look in I'll be discouraged. If I look around I'll be distracted. If I look at Jesus I shall have peace. 

~ Eli Stanley Jones

It's Not About You

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. ~ Ephesians 4:2

Begin with HIM

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV 1984)

Saved on HIS Terms

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. ~ Galatians 2:20

PRAY

Measure of a Man

My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? ~ James 2:1

Monday Morning...

God does not judge the condition or quality of His church by how good the meetings are on Sunday morning, but by how good the people are on Monday morning. The main calling of our life is more than just knowing the truth - — it is having that truth become our life.

~ Rick Joyner

Call a Halt

Holiness...

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ~ Romans 12:2

Ordered by the Lord

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholds him with His hand. ~ Psalm 37:23-24 (NKJV)

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. ~ Proverbs‬ ‭3:5-6‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Truth...

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

~ A. W. Tozer

First and Final

Sacrifice...

God asks us to sacrifice both our comfort and our resistance.
~ Tiffany Smiling

In Christ Alone...

“Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”” ~ John‬ ‭13:7‬

Overwhelming Gratitude...

But for those of us who know we have been lost, our overwhelming gratitude for the Guide is enough to compel us to tell others about Him – about the truth of their lost condition and the truth about the Way out.

~ Anne Graham Lotz (Life is Just Better with Jesus)

Look at the Cross...

Once you look at the cross, you can't look at anything else, no matter how horrid it appears, and infer that God's intention is to do us harm. The truth is that God is good. ~ William Backcus

Stand on Truth

‎Dear LORD, I’ll admit, sometimes I feel far from You. But today, I am not going to be a woman who is lead by her feelings. I am going to be a woman who stands on the truth of Your Word. I am in Jesus. He is in me. And we are both in You. Hallelujah. ~ Sharon Jaynes

Wise Counsel

‎Listening to counsel or ways of thinking that are not according to the Truth is the first step in developing wrong beliefs that will ultimately place us in bondage. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth

HIS Dream...

Holy Spirit, Spirit of truth, tell me the truth about myself. Help me see what you see, and then enable me to become the image of your dream for me. ~ D.E. Whitney

The Truth

Do not be intimidated by this world. It seeks answers but condemns anyone who claims to have them. It honors openness to all kinds of "truths" but scoffs when one accepts THE truth. ~ Chris Tiegreen

For Better or Worse...

People today should only have to look at us to see what Jesus is like. For better or worse, they'll draw conclusions about Christ from what they see in us. If we fail the grace test, we fail to be Christlike. If we fail the truth test, we fail to be Christlike. If we pass both tests, we're like Jesus. A grace-starved, truth-starved world needs Jesus, full of grace and truth. So what does this hungry world see when it looks at us?

~ Randy Alcorn (The Grace and Truth Paradox)

Sub-Culture or Counter-Culture?

Is the Church a sub-culture of the world or a counter-culture to it?

~ John Bevere

Far More Beauty...

However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
    the things God has prepared for those who love Him— 

~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)

Truth...Confrontation...

Truth carries with it confrontation.

~ Francis Schaeffer

Unite In Prayer

A Pure Heart

Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not a keen intellect.

~ Oswald Chambers

The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth!

God, help me to tell just the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in such a way and with such timing as to be honest and winsome, too. 

~ Fletcher Spruce

Imitating the World?

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.... [We] have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

~ A. W. Tozer

A Reading People...

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. ~ John Wesley

Be a Disciple...

If you want your church to be a place that loves, disciples, and serves, then you need to love, seek to be a disciple, and find places to serve, even if you're not in the limelight. ~ C. Hosher

Be Real...

All around us are people who are praying a heartfelt, “Why.” They don’t need clichéd answers. Be real. Offer them Christ’s hope and your empathy. 

~ C. Hosher

Make Disciples

Church, Jesus never called us to count decisions; He called us to make disciples. ~ David Platt  

Together...

We can do more together than we can do individually. No church, district, region, or college is sovereign. We are each a part of the whole.  ~ Nina Gunter

HIS Purpose...

God's purposes can be fulfilled in spite of human failings. 

~ K. Roney

Holy Conversation

Holy conversation never happens when half-truth is given free reign. ~ Dan Boone

Actions Speak Loudest

Don't just say you care, show it: Visit a shut-in. Sponsor a child in need. Assist a caretaker. Volunteer. Sit with a visitor. Demonstrate love. Follow through on your promises. Be an encourager. Don’t hide behind excuses. ~ M. Ellen

Spiritual Ghettos?

It's not healthy for us to live in spiritual ghettos where we only engage the same people, where we only hear one view, and where our world shrinks. God calls us to engage the world for Him.  

~ M. E. Anderson

Always Be...

Always be a little kinder

than necessary.

~ James M. Barrie

The Source...

Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Loves, Wounds, Persists...

God's heart loves passionately, wounds deeply, persists eternally.

~ Chris Tiegreen