Urgent Need...

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desperate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

HE Weeps...

God holds back; He hides Himself; He weeps. Why? Because He desires what power can never win. He is a King who wants no subservience, but love. ~ Philip Yancey 

Want Vs. Need

What we think we want from a church is almost never what we need.

~ Brett McCracken

The Church...

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will not go under, for He is the foundation of the Church. It belongs to Him. And, the Lord of the Church is still in the Church. The Church is not in Crisis, the Church is in Christ. ~ Nina Gunter

Calvary Love...

If I am soft to myself and slide comfortably into self-pity and self-sympathy, if I do not by the grace of God practice fortitude, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love.…That which I know not, teach Thou me, O Lord, my God.     — Amy Carmichael

Interruptions Come...

Interruptions come in different ways and in different forms: losing your job, being falsely accused, having what belongs to you taken. When God stops the progress of your own plans, He is often up to something. God may interrupt your life in the form of a tragedy, a broken heart, or a strong conviction that's hard to shake. These interruptions should not be taken lightly. God has a plan that is guaranteed to be better on the other side of the interruption. 
~ Tiffany Smiling 

Faith Is...

Faith is a footbridge that  you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it. ~ Nicholas Wolterstorff

The Bridge...

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~ George Herbert

Second Chance Grace...

We cringe at the extension of grace to the perpetrator until we become the perpetrator. Then, like David, we also find ourselves hoping for a second chance. ~ Laurie Short 

You Have a Calling...

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ~ Abraham Maslow

Election Advice from 1774

I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuring election, and advised them, 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy: 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against: And, 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side. ~ John Wesley, October 6, 1774

Weak Things...

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭1:27‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Length and Width...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. 
~ Diane Ackerman

To Love...

What a grand thing is it so be loved! 
What a far grander thing it is to love!
~ Victor Hugo

Faith Is...

Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God. 
~ Martin Luther

Light and Darkness

There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition. ~ Blaise Pascal

Miracles...

Miracles are never an end in themselves; they are always a means to point to and accomplish something greater. ~ Francis Chan

Measure of a Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation.
~ Corrie Ten Boom

World to Come...

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next... It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ~ C.S. Lewis

Money Matters

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer you greater opportunities to expand, share and crate value for yourself and others. ~ Anthony Robbins

ONLY in the SPIRIT!

The Christian's life in all its aspects - intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness - is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and congregations at all.

~ J. I. Packer

Sanctification Is Not...

Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.” - Oswald Chambers

Take Responsibility

Owning my life means taking responsibility for my own behavior, decisions, attitudes so I may become all God created me to be and leave a legacy that points others to Him. ~ Sally Clarkson

Sanctification

Sanctification does not mean anything less than the holiness of Jesus being made mine manifestly. ~ Oswald Chambers

Sanctification Is...

Sanctification is "Christ in you." It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification, and imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God's grace. ~ Oswald Chambers

Are You Willing?

Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in His word? ~ Oswald Chambers

Deep Discouragement

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' 

~  Billy Graham

Sanctification Means...

Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. ~ Oswald Chambers

Peace and Trust

If the basis of peace is God, the secret of peace is trust.

~ J. Neville Figgis

Busyness?

God didn't create us for busyness. He created us for Himself.

~ Chris Tiegreen