Are You in the Waiting Room or the Workroom?

‎"What seems to you like a pointless or even painful 'waiting room' may be God's most productive workroom." ~ Holly Furtick

Value Systems

“The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church’s message.” ~ Chuck Colson

Greatest Fear...

“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” ~ Francis Chan

Holy People...

"Holy people disagree, but they don’t destroy. Holy people desire to connect people with Christ, not condemn people in Christ." ~ N.G. Gunter

In Light of Eternity...

Without a doubt, the single greatest contributor to our inability to see money and possessions in their true light is our persistent failure to see our present lives through the lens of eternity. “But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’”(Luke 12:20). ~ Randy Alcorn (from "Money, Possessions and Eternity")

What Does God Require?

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 NIV

Day of Pentacost

"The tragic fact is that many Christians have not had their day of Pentecost. They live in spiritual futility rather than Christlike fruitfulness. The mind of self is more evident in them than the mind of Jesus." ~ Greathouse

Reward from the Devil

“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being his servant." ~ Billy Sunday

Self-Centered People

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway." ~ Mother Teresa

Shortness of Time

"Men of wealth and position we have in most churches. These, by virtue of their station have a work to do which those of lower worldly position cannot so well reach. But, alas! how few rich men are willing to be answerable to the responsibilities of their position, and in faithfulness remind their neighbors, rolling in luxury and ease, of the necessity of living in preparation for eternity, in view of the shortness of time and the reckonings of the last day!" ~ Phoebe Palmer (Four Years in the Old World, 1867.p. 157-8)

Times of Difficulty...

"Your times of difficulty gives you an opportunity, you wouldn't have otherwise, to demonstrate sacrificial love to God by ministering to Him instead of attending to your own pressing needs." ~ Pastor Kevin Seymour

Marriage Trials

"In marriage we will encounter trials and each day has different hurdles to jump, but if we allow God to use the trials to strengthen our marriage we will only get stronger as a couple and grow closer to our spouse!" ~ Natalie Morris

Thy Kingdom Come...

"How many Christians are there who pray every Sunday in church, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done!" without ever realizing the spiritual implications of such intercession! What are we praying for? Should we edit that prayer so that it becomes a confrontation: "My kingdom go, Lord; let Thy kingdom come!" Certainly His kingdom can never be realized in my life until my own selfish kingdom is deposed. It is when I resign, when I am no longer king of my domain that Jesus Christ will become king of my life." ~ A. W. Tozer

True Repentance...

‎"True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin." ~ J.C. Ryle