If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.
With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.
The most important thing you think is what you think about God.
The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.
After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.
If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.
You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.
The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.
To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.
Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.
I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.
In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
