Friday, August 31, 2018

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

Thursday, August 30, 2018

It's Not About You


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

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

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

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Monday, August 27, 2018

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

Sunday, August 26, 2018

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

Saturday, August 25, 2018

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

Friday, August 24, 2018

First and Final


Sacrifice...


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

Thursday, August 23, 2018

In Christ Alone...



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

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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)

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

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

Monday, August 20, 2018

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

Sunday, August 19, 2018

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

Saturday, August 18, 2018

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

Friday, August 17, 2018

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

Thursday, August 16, 2018

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)

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Sub-Culture or Counter-Culture?

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

~ John Bevere

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

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)

Monday, August 13, 2018

Truth...Confrontation...

Truth carries with it confrontation.

~ Francis Schaeffer

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Unite In Prayer


A Pure Heart

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

~ Oswald Chambers

Saturday, August 11, 2018

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

Friday, August 10, 2018

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

Thursday, August 9, 2018

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

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

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



Tuesday, August 7, 2018

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

Monday, August 6, 2018

Make Disciples

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

Sunday, August 5, 2018

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

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Holy Conversation

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

Friday, August 3, 2018

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

Thursday, August 2, 2018

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

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

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