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January 2010
January 1, 2010
Just like our closets, our minds can become cluttered by the patterns or trends of this world. These outfits, or thought processes, may look like they belong in our closets the first few years they take up residence. But with the passage of time, they soon appear threadbare and out of sorts. They fit too tight or too loose, too long or too short. Unless our closets - minds - are cleared out and reorganized on a timely and regular basis, we will not be able to test and apply God's truth to our lives.
Lisa Bevere
Ministry Site
January 2, 2010
You must be willing to follow if you want God to lead.
Anonymous
January 3, 2010
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
January 4, 2010
Your Holy Spirit enfolds me - making me realize I am not alone. Thank You for Your strength, Your wisdom and the comfort of Your presence. Even in the most agonizing times I have the knowledge that You are there, Lord. When all I can do is whisper Your Name, it is enough. You hear. You care. You understand. My praise and adoration, Lord Jesus. Amen.
Joan Winmill Brown
January 5, 2010
If ye were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
January 6, 2010
"Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God'"(Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.
Dwight L Moody
Brief Biography
January 7, 2010
Let your prayers unite with one heart and soul to plead with God for your neighbourhood! Carry the names of your neighbours written on your breast just as the high priest of old carried the names of the tribes. Mothers, bear your children before God! Fathers, carry your sons and daughters! Let us intercede for a wicked world and the dark places full of cruelty! Let us cry aloud...until He establishes His church as a praise in the earth! Wake up watchman on the walls; renew your shouts! The cloud hangs above you - it is yours to draw down its sacred floods in pleasant showers by your earnest prayers.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
January 8, 2009
O God of Second Chances and new Beginnings, here I am again.
Nancy Spiegelberg
I'd Like To Ask God
January 9, 2010
When you stand before His gate, knock loudly and boldly. Do not knock as a beggar knocks, but as one who belongs to the house. Not as a vagabond, who is afraid of the police, but as a friend and an intimate acquaintance. Not as one who is apprehensive of being troublesome, or of coming at an improper time, but as a guest who may rest assured of a hearty welcome.
Dr. F. W. Krummacher
January 10, 2010
What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus Christ? Do we fear to be too happy, too much delivered from ourselves, from the caprices of our pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world?
Francois Fenelon
Francis Fenelon Biography
January 11, 2010
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance. When Christians speak of standing in a place where they do not need to watch, they are in great danger. Let us walk in intimate and holy confidence, yet with holy, humble watchfulness.
A. B. Simpson
Biography/Bibliography
January 12, 2010
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
Calvin Miller
Website
January 13, 2010
None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.
Lewis B. Smedes
Obituary
January 14, 2009
You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you could ever have asked or thought, not according to your power or capacity, but according to His own mighty power, that will work in you all the good pleasure of His most blessed will. You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
Hannah Whitall Smith
Online Books
January 15, 2010
Well, let's go on disagreeing but don't let us judge. What doesn't suit us may suit possible converts of a different type. My model here is the behaviour of the congregation at a 'Russian Orthodox' service, where some sit, some stand, some kneel, some walk about, and no one takes the slightest notice of what anyone else is doing. That is good sense, good manners, and good Christianity. 'Mind one's own business' is a good rule in religion as in other things.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
January 16, 2010
Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for? Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it? It is just the opposite: it is to make its burden light. Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plow would be intolerable; worked by means of a yoke, it is light. A yoke is not an instrument of torture; it is an instrument of mercy. It is not a malicious contrivance for making work hard; it is a gentle device to make hard labor light. (continued tomorrow)
Henry Drummond
Website
January 17, 2010
(continued from yesterday)[Christ] knew the difference between a smooth yoke and a rough one, a bad fit and a good one...The rough yoke galled, and the burden was heavy; the smooth yoke caused no pain, and the load was lightly drawn. The badly fitted harness was a misery; the well fitted collar was easy. And what was the burden? It was not some special burden laid upon the Christian, some unique infliction that they alone must bear. It was what all men bear: it was simply life, human life itself, the general burden of life which all must carry with them from the cradle to the grave. Christ saw that men took life painfully. (continued tomorrow)
Henry Drummond
Website
January 18, 2010
(continued from yesterday)To some a ill-fitting yoke was a weariness, to others failure, to many a tragedy, to all a struggle and a pain. How to carry this burden of life had been the whole world's problem. And here is Christ's solution: Carry it as I do. Take life as I take it. Look at it from my point of view. Interpret it upon my principles. Take my yoke and learn of me, and you will find it easy. For my yoke is easy, sits right upon the shoulders, and therefore my burden is light.
Henry Drummond
Website
January 19, 2010
It would be easier, I sometimes think, if God had given us a set of ideas to mull over and kick around and decide whether to accept or reject. He did not. His gave us Himself in the form of a Person.
Philip Yancey
Biography
January 20, 2010
There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbours.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
January 21, 2010
The glory of the Father must be the aim - the very soul and life - of our prayer.
Andrew Murray - With Christ in the School of Prayer
Biography And Works
January 22, 2010
Give us faith that will not worry, whine, or wrangle; but watches, works, waits, and warbles.
Kenneth Moyer
January 23, 2010
When I am weak, and distressed, and alone, and none to receive my tale of sorrow, none to express a word of fellow-feeling or care for me, in the living oracles of the gospel I see divine wisdom and lovingkindness looking at me tenderly, compassionately, through the openings of my prison, and I feel that He who dresses the lily of the field, and numbers the sparrows, is near me, numbering the hairs of my head, listening to my cries, in all the treasures of His grace and power. He is the same gracious Redeemer and Preserver to every one that believes in His name.
B.A. Ramsbottom
January 24, 2010
We are all missionaries...Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ, or we repel them from Christ.
Eric Liddell
Biography
January 25, 2010
When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.
James Houston - The Transforming power of prayer
January 26, 2010
Let no extreme difficulty discourage you, and make you think, Oh! it is impossible relief can now come; What? Are not all things possible to him that hath all things in his hand? Yea, "All things are possible to him that believeth;" and it is possible for you to do all things through Christ strengthening you, even to overleap the highest walls, to break bows of steel in pieces, and wade through the deepest fords in your way.
Ralph Erskine
Brief Biography
January 27, 2010
Have we as a people been so dumbed down we can't see it? Well, this is what happens, I'm afraid, in a postmodern culture where all values are equivalent and all truth is relative. One moment the President browbeats Congress to pass a trade bill with China. Forget Christians being persecuted. The same day the same President moments later angrily demands sanctions against Japan for hunting whales. There are no principles, just momentary preferences, and everything depends on what's to be gained by those in positions of power....What's good enough for whales ought to be good enough for persecuted Christians.
Charles (Chuck) Colson
Breakpoint
January 29, 2010
Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God...Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you...(continued tomorrow)
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
January 30, 2010
(continued from yesterday)
Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him...Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
January 31, 2010
What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of himself?
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
December 2009 / February 2010/
