“NO WORRIES The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.”
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“MEETING THEIR TRUE NEEDS I have no intention to depart in the smallest degree from the main principles on which I have acted in the past. My only hope for the permanent deliverance of mankind from misery, either in this world or the next, is the regeneration or remaking of the individual by the power of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ. But in providing for the relief of temporal misery I reckon that I am only making it easy where it is now difficult and possible where it is now all but impossible, for men and women to find their way to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“There are no crown-wearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.”
“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”
“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
“Religious complacency is encountered almost everywhere among Christians these days, and its presence is a sign and a prophecy. For every Christian will become at last what his desires have made him. We are all the sum total of our hungers.”
“I wonder how many Christians in our day have truly and completely abandoned themselves to Jesus Christ as their Lord. We are very busy telling people to “accept Christ” – and that seems to be the only word we are using. We arrange a painless acceptance.”
“THE CROSS OF CHRIST is revolutionary, and if we are not ready to let it be revolutionary in us nor let it cost us anything or control us in any way, we are not going to like a church that takes the things of God seriously.”
“The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it. The old cross brought tears and blood; the new cross brings laughter. The flesh, smiling and confident, preaches and sings about the cross; before that cross it bows and toward that cross it points with carefully staged histrionics – but upon that cross it will not die, and the reproach of that cross it stubbornly refuses to bear.”
“We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist – Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.”
“Brethren, when we finally have our meeting with God, it has to be alone in the depths of our being. We will be alone even if we are surrounded by a crowd. God has to cut every maverick out of the herd and brand him all alone. It isn’t something that God can do for us en masse.”
“The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.”
“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
“My heart is beyond your understanding, I do not know how to hate, only to love.”
“I thank God for the mountains, I thank Him for the valleys, I thank Him for the storms He brought me through; For if I'd never had a problem. I wouldn't know that He could solve them, I'd never know what faith in God can do.”
“Making Pancakes Six-year-old Brandon decided one Saturday morning to fix his parents pancakes. He found a big bowl and spoon, and pulled a chair up to the counter, opened the cupboard and pulled out the heavy canister of flour, spilling it on the floor. He scooped some of the flour into the bowl with his hands, mixed in most of a cup of milk and added some sugar, leaving a floury trail on the floor, which by now had a few tracks left by his kitten. Brandon was covered with flour and getting frustrated. He wanted this to be something very good for Mom and Dad, but it was getting very bad. He didn’t know what to do next, whether to put it all into the oven, or on the stove; and he didn’t know how the stove worked! Suddenly he saw his kitten licking from the bowl of mix and reached to push her away, knocking the egg carton to the floor. Frantically he tried to clean up this monumental mess, but slipped on the eggs, getting his pyjamas white and sticky. Just then, he saw his Father standing at the door. Big crocodile tears welled up in Brandon’s eyes. All he had wanted to do was something good, but he had made a terrible mess. He was sure a scolding was coming, maybe even a spanking. But, his father just watched him. Then, walking through the mess, his Father picked up his crying son, hugged him and loved him, getting his own pyjamas white and sticky in the process! That’s how God deals with us. We try to do something good in life, but it turns into a mess. Our marriage gets all sticky or we insult a friend, or we can’t stand our job, or our health goes sour. Sometimes we just stand there in tears because we can’t think of anything else to do. That’s when God picks us up and loves us and forgives us, even though some of our mess gets all over Him. But just because we might mess up, we can’t stop trying to “make pancakes” for God or for others. Sooner or later we’ll get it right, and then they’ll be glad we tried. I was thinking and I wondered if I had any wounds needing to be healed, friendships that need rekindling or three words needing to be said, sometimes, “I love you” can heal & bless! Remind every one of your friends that you love them. Even if you think they don’t love back, you would be amazed at what those three little words, a smile, and a reminder like this can do. Suppose one morning you were called to God; do all your friends know you love them? Send this to everyone you love, and never stop “making pancakes.””
“Not how we love Him! But how He loves us! There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear hath torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.”
“"And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.”
“That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.”
“Thou son of man… show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.”
“"I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and find out there is."”
“The Judas factor in ministry “The betrayer is a man, or a woman, who sees absolutely no value whatsoever in any act of worship which does not personally profit him. That is the betrayer. He could not care less that Lazarus is alive from the dead. Soul-winning is not his burden. He is not moved by true worship. He is not moved by any act of worship that does not personally profit him. He sees only value to God when it increases his sense of worth, wealth and power. Deeply in his heart he hates yielded and sacrificial worship – all that is laying hold of Christ and all that is truly worthy of our devotion. Deeply he hates it – he would never say so. He may bring forth some other reason, some other accusation. But, he hates anything that does not personally profit him.””
“The Mark of the Spiritual Man... He sees!”