Taste and see that the Lord is good Ps34:8
Colossians 1:17 “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
If God can accomplish his purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank him for breaking yours.OZ
Our Lord calls us to no special work— He calls us to Himself. “Pray the Lord of the harvest,” and He will engineer your circumstances to send you out as His laborer.
The world hopes for the best, but the Lord offers the best hope.
Obedience means that I have completely placed my trust in the atonement, and my obedience is immediately met by the delight of the supernatural grace of God.
Beware of isolation. Beware of the ideas that you have to develop a holy life alone. It is impossible to develop a holy life alone, you will develop into an oddity and be peculiar into something utterly unlike what God wants you to be. The only way to develop spiritually is to go into the society of Gods own children, and you will soon find how God alters your set. God does not contradict our social instincts. He altars them.
There is no reason to try to discover what God has not revealed. It is enough to know that God is God.
Nothing of God dies when a man of God dies.
Pre-trib from Chuckie: mid trib would be come on let’s get married, then I am going to beat the daylights out of you, and then we can go have dinner!
A lie will go around the world while truth is pulling its boots on. - Charles Spurgeon. 1855.
God perfectly knows Himself and, being the source and author of all things, it follows that He knows all that can be known. And this He knows instantly and with a fullness of perfection that includes every possible item of knowledge concerning everything that exists or could have existed anywhere in the universe at any time in the past or that may exist in the centuries or ages yet unborn. - Toz
What is your soup? Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. Genesis 25 :29 What addictions are we trading for fellowship with God. Don’t let a bowl of soup hinder God’s wonderful plans for you. - Charles Stanley
Getting out of your comfort zone should be your comfort zone!! 1 Cor 6:19 - Dukeyism
Anger is one letter short of danger!
Faith is acting like God is really telling the Truth.
We don’t want to know about the Holy Spirit, we want to experience him in our lives.
2 Corinthian’s 5:17 Gods heart transplant
All the limits of our life are free and under the control and mastery of God alone. There is no longer any responsibility on you for the work. The only responsibility you have is to stay in living constant touch with God - Oz
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing.
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. - Oz
The fiery furnaces are there by God’s direct permission. It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances; we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them. OZ
If you don’t know where or when you are going you are heading in the right direction. The sign of a good disciple - Bonhoffer.
The piano must have black notes. James 1:2 count it all a joy
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates and Paul.
You and God are a majority.
Be careful you are not so heavenly minded you are a no earthly good
God said it, I believe it, that settles it.
When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!
Satan deceives divides and destroys
The complaint that God takes a long time to work out His will. We do not want to take the time to plow and cultivate. We want the fruit and the harvest right away. We do not want to be engaged in any spiritual battle that takes us into the long night. We want the morning light right now! We do not want the cross—we are more interested in the crown! - Toz