A2- The lasting characteristic of a spiritual man is the ability to understand correctly the meaning of the Lord Jesus Christ in his life, and the ability to explain the purposes of God to others.
A1- True prayer cannot be imitated nor can it be learned from someone else. (God Tells the Man Who Cares)
M31 - Jesus Christ is not my security against the storms of life, but He is my perfect security in the storms. He has never promised me an easy passage, only a safe landing.
M30- It is better to walk in the dark with God than walk alone in the light. (The Still Small Voice)
M29- Many years ago there was a monk who needed olive oil, so he planted an olive tree sapling. After he finished planting it, he prayed," Lord, my tree needs rain so it's tender roots may drink and grow. Send gentle showers ". And the Lord sent gentle showers. Then the monk prayed," Lord my tree needs sun. Please send it sun." And the sun shown, gilding the once dripping clouds." Now send frost, dear Lord, to strengthen the branches" cried the monk. And soon the little tree was covered in sparkling frost, but by evening it had died. Then the monk sought out a brother Monk in his cell and told him of his strange experience. After hearing the story, the other monk said," I also have planted a little tree. See how it is thriving! But I entrust my tree to its God. He who made it knows better than a man like me what it needs. I gave God no constraints or conditions, except to pray," Lord, send me what it needs whether that be a storm or sunshine, wind, rain, or frost. You made it, and you know best what it needs."
M28- The only remedy for human nature is to destroy it and receive instead the divine nature. God does not improve man. He crucifies the natural life with Christ and creates the new man in Christ Jesus. A.B. Simpson
M27- What a joyful experience it is for us in this church age to be part of a congregation drawn together by the desire to know God's presence, to sense His awareness. (Tozer)
M26- Improve your mind for the honor of God. When you are chopping wood, and you have a dull ax you must work all the harder to cut the log. A sharp ax makes easy work. So sharpen your ax all you can. Andy Dolbow
M25 - goodness and purity should never be traits that draw attention to themselves, but should simply be magnets that draw people to Jesus Christ.
M24 -Verse to consider when your plans go sideways… “Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7
M23- If the spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of Truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of darkness will say" oh I can explain that" . When the light shines and the Spirit brings conviction of sin, be a child of the light. Confess your wrongdoing, and God will deal with it. If, however, you try to vindicate yourself, you prove yourself to be a child of the darkness.
M22 - It is the simple, dreary day, with its commonplace duties and people, that smothers the burning heart, unless we have learned the secret of abiding in Jesus. (Chambers)
M-21- let us remember that no earthly circumstances can hinder the fulfillment of God's Word
M20- The cross that ended the earthly life of Jesus now puts an end to the sinner; and the power that raised Christ from the dead now raises him to a new life along with Christ.
M19
- “It is the most counterintuitive aspect of
Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.”
Dane C. Ortlund
M18 -John 6:65-66
65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing
This is but one verse among thousands which serve to form our rational picture of what God is like, and they tell us plainly that God feels something like our love, like our joy, and what He feels makes Him act very much as we would in a similar situation; He rejoices over His loved ones with joy and singing. Here is emotion on a as high a plane as it can ever be seen, emotion flowing out of the heart of God himself.
A2- The lasting characteristic of a spiritual man is the ability to understand correctly the meaning of the Lord Jesus Christ in his life, and the ability to explain the purposes of God to others.
A1- True prayer cannot be imitated nor can it be learned from someone else. (God Tells the Man Who Cares)
M31 - Jesus Christ is not my security against the storms of life, but He is my perfect security in the storms. He has never promised me an easy passage, only a safe landing.
M30- It is better to walk in the dark with God than walk alone in the light. (The Still Small Voice)
M29- Many years ago there was a monk who needed olive oil, so he planted an olive tree sapling. After he finished planting it, he prayed," Lord, my tree needs rain so it's tender roots may drink and grow. Send gentle showers ". And the Lord sent gentle showers. Then the monk prayed," Lord my tree needs sun. Please send it sun." And the sun shown, gilding the once dripping clouds." Now send frost, dear Lord, to strengthen the branches" cried the monk. And soon the little tree was covered in sparkling frost, but by evening it had died. Then the monk sought out a brother Monk in his cell and told him of his strange experience. After hearing the story, the other monk said," I also have planted a little tree. See how it is thriving! But I entrust my tree to its God. He who made it knows better than a man like me what it needs. I gave God no constraints or conditions, except to pray," Lord, send me what it needs whether that be a storm or sunshine, wind, rain, or frost. You made it, and you know best what it needs."
M28- The only remedy for human nature is to destroy it and receive instead the divine nature. God does not improve man. He crucifies the natural life with Christ and creates the new man in Christ Jesus. A.B. Simpson
M27- What a joyful experience it is for us in this church age to be part of a congregation drawn together by the desire to know God's presence, to sense His awareness. (Tozer)
M26- Improve your mind for the honor of God. When you are chopping wood, and you have a dull ax you must work all the harder to cut the log. A sharp ax makes easy work. So sharpen your ax all you can. Andy Dolbow
M25 - goodness and purity should never be traits that draw attention to themselves, but should simply be magnets that draw people to Jesus Christ.
M24 -Verse to consider when your plans go sideways… “Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7
M23- If the spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of Truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of darkness will say" oh I can explain that" . When the light shines and the Spirit brings conviction of sin, be a child of the light. Confess your wrongdoing, and God will deal with it. If, however, you try to vindicate yourself, you prove yourself to be a child of the darkness.
M22 - It is the simple, dreary day, with its commonplace duties and people, that smothers the burning heart, unless we have learned the secret of abiding in Jesus. (Chambers)
M-21- let us remember that no earthly circumstances can hinder the fulfillment of God's Word
M20- The cross that ended the earthly life of Jesus now puts an end to the sinner; and the power that raised Christ from the dead now raises him to a new life along with Christ.
M19
- “It is the most counterintuitive aspect of
Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.”
Dane C. Ortlund
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing
This is but one verse among thousands which serve to form our rational picture of what God is like, and they tell us plainly that God feels something like our love, like our joy, and what He feels makes Him act very much as we would in a similar situation; He rejoices over His loved ones with joy and singing. Here is emotion on a as high a plane as it can ever be seen, emotion flowing out of the heart of God himself.
M17 - The truly humble man does not expect to find virtue in himself, and when he finds none he is not disappointed. He knows that any good deed he may do is the result of God's working in him. When this belief becomes so much a part of a man that it operates as a kind of unconscious reflex he is released from the burden of trying to live up to his own opinion of himself. (God Tells The Man Who Cares)
M16 -There are many compelling lessons to be drawn from the Scriptures, and one of the clearest is that sinful and rebellious people can never be forced into repentance. How desperately we would like to believe that in the face of coming judgment, all lost men and women will cry out to God, but such will not be the case. Revelation 9:20 -"those who survived the plagues continued to worship demons and idols, refusing to repent of their actions, even in the face of divine judgment" (Pursuing God)
M15 -
New International Version
14 Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob,
little Israel, do not fear,
for I myself will help you,” declares the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 “See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,
new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
and reduce the hills to chaff.
Could any two things be in greater contrast than a worm and a threshing tool with sharp teeth? A worm is delicate and is easily bruised by a stone or crushed beneath a passing wheel. Yet a threshing tool with sharp teeth can cut through a rock and not be broken, leaving its mark upon the rock. And almighty God can convert one into the other. He can take an individual or a nation, who has all the weakness of a worm, and through the energizing work of His own Spirit, endow that person or nation with strength enough to make a profound Mark upon the history of their time. L.B. Cowman
M14- when you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control that has over you. Even though you say," Oh, I can give up that habit whenever I like," you will know you can't. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing," he will break every fetter," while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will break every kind of slavery in any person's life. (Chambers)
M13- As we mourn violence and pray for peace around the world, believers are reminded of how good the news is of Jesus’s coming kingdom. His Spirit offers supernatural peace in our hearts today, and his return promises peace in a renewed earth forever.
“‘For I will create new heavens and a new earth… The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like cattle, but the serpent’s food will be dust! They will not do what is evil or destroy on my entire holy mountain,’ says the Lord.”
Isaiah 65:17, 25 (The Pour Over)
M12 - I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in His universe. The fact that we do not know the reason behind some things is not basis enough for us to call them divine accidents.
M11- God has ordained our truest and richest comfort to be found by pressing on toward the goal. Sitting down and brooding over our sorrow deepens the darkness surrounding us, allowing it to creep into our heart. And soon our strength has changed to weakness. But if we will turn from the gloom and remain faithful to the calling of God, the light will shine again and we will grow stronger. J. R. Miller
M10 - David Brainerd once compared a man without the power of the Spirit trying to do spiritual work to a workman without fingers attempting to do manual labor: The figure is striking but the it does not overstate the facts. The Holy Spirit is not a luxury.... The Spirit is an imperative necessity. Only the Eternal Spirit can do eternal deeds. (Man: The Dwelling Place of God)
M9 - Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.”
Nancy Leigh Demoss
M8- Oh, how sad it is for a poor Christian to stand at the very door of a promise during a dark night of affliction, being afraid to turn the knob and thereby come boldly into the shelter as a child entering his Father's house! (William Gurnell)
M7- There is no way to learn of Faith except through trials. They are God's School of Faith, and it is much better for us to learn to trust Him than to live a life of enjoyment. And once the lesson of Faith has been learned, it is an everlasting possession and in an eternal fortune gained. Yet without trust in God, even great riches will leave us in poverty. (Days of heaven upon Earth)
M6 - I have always been so sorry that the two disciples walking with Jesus on the road to Emanus did not say to him" we still hope" instead of" we had hoped" the situation is very sad, because in their minds it is over. May we never express our faith, as these disciples did, in the past tense. May we always say," I have hope". Zorn
M5- It is when heaven's heights are in full view that the Gates of hell are most persistent and full of deadly peril.
M4- " Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing."
M3 - It is one thing, to hear for oneself a sweet lute, sweetly played, and quite another thing merely to hear about it. Henry Suso
M2 - The morning is a critically important time of day. You must never face the day until you have faced God, nor look into the face of others until you have looked into His. You cannot expect to be victorious, if you begin your day in your own strength alone. Begin the work of everyday after having been influenced by a few reflective, quiet moments between your heart and God. (Streams In The Desert)
M1 - The Church is found wherever the Holy Spirit has drawn together a few persons who trust Christ for their salvation, worship God in spirit and have no dealings with the world and the flesh. The church was never intended to be a natural and intellectual organization, but a supernatural instrumentality wholly dependent upon the power of God
F28 - being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean. The bottle is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the bottle. The ocean contains the bottle, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with a Christian. A. B. Simpson
F27 - “Trusting God does not mean believing he will do what you want, but rather believing he will do everything he knows is good.” Ken Sande
F26 - Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls. (Spurgeon) There is always a large balance credited to our account in the Bank of heaven. It is waiting for us to exercise our faith to draw upon it. Draw heavily on God's resources.
F25 - God wants worshipers before workers
F24 - to please God, a person must be just an instrument for God to use. For a few seconds, picture in your mind, the variety of wonderful and useful appliances we have in our homes. They have been engineered and built to perform tasks of all kinds. But without the inflow of electrical power, they are just lumps of metal and plastic, unable to function and serve. They cannot do their work until power is applied from a dynamic outside source. So it is in the work of God in the church. A.W.T
F23- If our devotion is to the cause of humanity, we will be quickly defeated and broken-hearted, since we will often be confronted with a great deal of ingratitude from other people. But if we are motivated by our love for God, no amount of ingratitude will be able to hinder us if from serving one another. Once we realize that Jesus has served us even to the depths of our meagerness, our selfishness, and our sin, nothing we encounter from others will be able to exhaust our determination to serve others for his sake. (O. Chambers)
F22 -Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.”
Matt Chandler
F21 - Truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit
F20 - “Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.”
St. John Chrysostom
F19 - Truth consists not in the correct doctrine, but in the correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit....
F18 - never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
F17 - There are two extremes. The Word without the Spirit is dry and dead, but the Spirit without the Word is incomplete. AB Simpson
F16 - Our Father takes away the rod when His purpose in using it is fully accomplished. Cowman
F15 - Friction caused by fretting is an indication of the absence of the anointing oil of the grace of God. When we worry, a little bit of sand gets into the bearings. It may be some slight disappointment, ungratefulness, or discourtesy we have experienced. Suddenly our life is no longer running smoothly. Friction leads to heat and heat can lead to very dangerous conditions. Do not allow your bearings to become heated. Let the oil of the Lord keep you cool.
F14 - let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength. Jowett
F13 - If I am United with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a tree, or a servant of God may convey God's message to me. What hinders me from hearing is my attention to other things. It is not that I don't want to hear God, but I am not devoted in the right areas of my life. I am devoted to things and even to service and my own convictions.
F12 - it is not the body of truth that enlightens; it is the Spirit of truth who enlightens.
F11 - If we would only move straight ahead in faith, the path would be opened for us. But we stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles at all. Winslow (Evening Thoughts)
F10 - I would rather be part of a small group with inner knowledge than part of a vast group with only intellectual knowledge. Tozer
F9- A sanctified life is a life conformed to the Scriptures in every particular. It commences with our hearts; it next reaches to our ears, and then it is accomplished in our feet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbyVMkMmv58 (Brother Pepper )
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dl7Ip7siaQM&feature=share (brother Jason - The Sword of the Spirit)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Du3Dy-R7dd0&feature=share (brother Jason - obedience)
https://youtu.be/VjwW2bewiE4. (Sister Hazel God Cares)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=joO1fRqaX_o&feature=share (Jason ordained)
https://youtu.be/rPQkxTPVBXs (Jason and Sandy)
https://youtu.be/1EsJMkg9sPg (Brother Ernie -power of Words )
https://youtu.be/xC4iaQJrlps (Brother Jason 'Adopted by the King")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7noy0E-GQs (Brother Garry Testimony)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h12rZrm5ijI (Pastor Rocco)
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