Surrender

The boat I travel in is called Surrender. My two oars are instant forgiveness and gratitude—complete gratitude for the gift of life. I am thankful for the experience of this life, for the opportunity to dance. I get angry, I get mad, but as soon as I remind myself to put my oars in the water, I forgive. 

~ Balbir Matbur

Not What We Want...

God might not be doing what we want Him to do, but that doesn't necessarily make Him any less God. We just may have to broaden our focus in order to see Him. ~ Laurie Short

He Cares...

Jesus takes to heart the sufferings of His friends. 

~ William Hendriksen

Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. ~ 1 Peter 5:7 (NLT)

Only Jesus

The Sermon on the Mount is not an ideal. It is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has altered my disposition and put in a disposition like His own. Jesus Christ (in us) is the only One who can fulfill the Sermon on the Mount. 

~ Oswald Chambers

Eternal Inheritance

But you are not shaped by your history, contrary to what the psychiatrists have preached.You are shaped by your destiny. You are a child of God with an eternal inheritance. 

~ Chris Tiegreen

A Holy Church

He says He is coming back for a holy church, not a welcoming, community conscious, need oriented, outreach minded one.
~ John Bevere

This is not to say that God's church won't be all of those things just to say that without HIS holiness none of them are any different than the world. ~ Robin

Forming Your Character

"Do get on with your studies. Remember you are now forming the character of your future ministry, if God spare you. If you acquire slovenly or sleepy habits of study now, you will never get the better of it. Do everything in earnest. Above all, keep much in the presence of God. Never see the face of man till you have seen His face who is our life, our all." 

~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Living Out Your Mission?

How are you living out your mission? Are you drawing your strength from His power and authority? Or are you depending upon the props? Those who go through life carrying sacks of provisions find themselves powerless; they unwittingly confess a mistrust in His providence....Carry out your mission full of His strength and unburdened by your own. ~ Chris Tiegreen

Where is Your Focus

The people of the world focus on what they are overcoming. Christians focus on what they are becoming. 

~ Henry Blackaby

Five Senses

How much of your walk with God is based on your five senses? 

~ Chris Tiegreen

This Is My Way...Walk in It

How are you living life, work, ministry?  Is your motto, "Keep the Lord on board," with your strength growing steadily weaker?  Or, like Moses, do you stand still and go nowhere until you hear His whisper into your heart, "This is My way.  Walk in it."  

~ Author Unknown

The History of HIS Work

In the history of God's work you will nearly always find that it has started from the obscure, the unknown, the ignored, but the steadfastly true to Jesus Christ. ~ Oswald Chambers

Victory

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. ~ Stephen R. Covey

Living Together

In becoming human, Jesus becomes vulnerable to the world of human beings. He becomes vulnerable not only to the human capacity to touch and celebrate, but also to the many ways in which people diminish, betray, oppress and abandon one another. Even though he is vulnerable to these, he does not allow himself to be defined by them. Instead, he breaks apart the cycles of destruction, not just for himself but also for us, thereby offering us new ways of living together. ~ L. Gregory Jones