November 1, 2003
The secret of following God's will is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.
K. P. Yohannan
Gospel for Asia
November 2, 2003
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot's Website
November 3, 2003
To desert an occupation given by obedience in order to unite ourselves to God by prayer, by reading, or by recollection, would be to withdraw from God to unite ourselves to our own self-love.
Francis de Sales
Biography and Works
November 4, 2003
The Gospel is not a new law. It is not a code of morals or ethics. It is not a creed to be accepted. It is not a system of religion to be adhered to. It is the good news that God will forgive and accept any person who trusts His provision of the crucified and risen Christ as the answer to their rebellion and sin.
Anonymous
November 5, 2003
The Holy Spirit is not just an illumination or inspiration that comes to our minds so we can see truth, He is a person who himself knows the things of God and reveals them to us.
Dr. Fuchsia Pickett
Website
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November 6, 2003
If you have been mistreated, cheated or deceived and if your heart has been right all along, be assured that God knows this. God will eventually vindicate you, but in the meantime you should be confidently aware that God knows the truth concerning what has happened to you. He knows if your heart has been right.
Theodore Epp
Biography and Devotionals
November 7, 2003
Don't give up because the pain is intense right now. Get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.
Stuart Singer
November 8, 2003
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. Most people consider the exercise a fatiguing ceremony, which they are justified in abridging as much as possible. Even those whose profession or fears lead them to pray, pray with such languor and wanderings of mind that their prayers, far from drawing down blessings, only increase their condemnation.
Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon Biography
November 9, 2003
There are always uncertainties ahead, but there is always one certainty--God's will is good.
Vernon Paterson
November 10, 2003
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
Locke
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Surprising Ways God Answers Prayer By Karen Barber God always answers our prayers, but those answers don't always come in the ways we expect. Filled with fascinating, real-life stories, Surprising Ways God Answers Prayer inspires as it reveals the many unlikely ways God responded to the prayers of ordinary people. No matter what your spiritual journey---whether you've prayed for years or just a time or two---your heart and mind will be opened to the miracles that happen every day through God's surprising answers to prayer. Previously published as Surprised by Prayer: The Wonderful Ways God Answers as well as Surprised by Prayer!: The Joyous, Unexpected Ways God Answers Your Needs. |
November 11, 2003
Christians are losing their power and influence because they are losing their separateness.
Charlene Kaemmerling
November 12, 2003
Do you wish to commune with God in your mind? Strive to be merciful... A man should first of all begin to be merciful in the measure that our heavenly Father is merciful.
Isaac The Syrian
Biography and Writings.
November 13, 2003
We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
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The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David By Alan Redpath David was a shepherd and a king, a soldier and a poet, a sinner and a saint. He was also a man after God's own heart. In this Christian classic, Alan Redpath blends insights from 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, and Psalms to demonstrate how God shapes those who are responsive to his love. Despite his many faults, David became a man who wondrously understood and reflected the mind of God. Both men and women will find themselves identifying with David's struggles and triumphs, giving them a glimpse of how God is continually shaping them as well.
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November 14, 2003
What settings are you in when you fall? Avoid them. What props do you have that support your sin? Eliminate them. What people are you usually with? Avoid them. There are two equally damning lies Satan wants us to believe: 1) Just once won't hurt. 2) Now that you have ruined your life, you are beyond God's use, and might as well enjoy sinning.
Anonymous
November 15, 2003
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
Catherine Marshall
Biography
November 16, 2003
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle again.
Soren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard on the Web
November 17, 2003
[Faith] doth not, as doth unbelief and ignorance, show us all things out of order; putting darkness for light, and bitter for sweet; but will set every thing in its proper place before our eyes; God and Christ shall be with it, the chiefest good, the most lovely and amiable; a heavenly life shall be of greater esteem, and more desirable, than all the treasures of Egypt! Righteousness and sanctification will be the thing after which it will most vehemently press; because it seeth not only death and damnation as the fruits of sin, but sin also in itself, distinct from the punishment belonging to it, a detestable, horrible, and odious thing
John Bunyan
Online Library
November 18, 2003
When Stanley went out in 1871 and found Livingstone, he spent some months in his company but Livingstone never spoke to him about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley watched the old man. Livingstone's habits were beyond his comprehension and so was his patience. He could not understand Livingstone's sympathy for the Africans. For the sake of Christ and His gospel the missionary doctor was patient, untiring, eager, spending himself and being spent for his master. Stanley wrote, "When I saw that unwearied patience, that unflagging zeal, those enlightened sons of Africa, I became a Christian at his side, though he never spoke to me about it."
Henry M Stanley
Biography
November 19, 2003
It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful "in general." It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
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Beyond Doubt, Revised: Faith Building Devotions to Questions Christians Ask By Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. Graceful, polished meditations on the questions that plague us all: Why do we suffer? What is God like? Is there a reason to pray? How should we face death? How do we grow in grace and knowledge? The new president of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids has produced a winner! 344 pages, softcover. More Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. Books |
November 20, 2003
Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because Christ is in us!
Claxton Monro
November 21, 2003
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
November 22, 2003
It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
Luis Palau
Luis Palau Evangelistic Organization
November 23, 2003
You can do more than pray AFTER you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray UNTIL you have prayed... Prayer is striking the winning blow... service is gathering up the results
Dutch Sheets
Ministry Site
November 24, 2003
Whenever a man allows himself to have anxieties, fears, or complaints, he must consider his behavior as either a denial of the wisdom of God or as a confession that he is out of his will. To be always in a thankful state of heart before God is not to be considered a high plane of spirituality but rather the normal attitude of one who believes that "all things work together for good to them that love God, who are called according to his purpose."
William Law
Biography and Works
November 25, 2003
"He that believeth shall not make haste." Isaiah 28:16 That is to say, he won't get rattled or hustled; he won't let time get on top of him or dictate to him. Doesn't that speak to all of us of something which deep down we wish were true of ourselves? Time, the enemy... How often do you hear people saying, - how often do you hear yourself saying, "Oh, I haven't got time!" I haven't got time... No, we haven't, for time has got us, or most of us.
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill Association
November 26, 2003
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint. I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
November 27, 2003
Being thankful is not telling God you appreciate the fact that your life is not in shambles. If that is the basis of your gratitude, you are on slippery ground. Every day of your life you face the possibility that a blessing in your life may be taken away. But blessings are only signs of God's love. The real blessing, of course, is the love itself. Whenever we get too attached to the sign, we lose our grasp on the God who gave it to us. Churches are filled with widows who can explain this to you. We are not ultimately grateful that we are still holding our blessings. We are grateful that we are held by God even when the blessings are slipping through our fingers.
Craig Barnes
Biography
More Craig Barnes Materials
November 28, 2003
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable. Some one says, "God's will on earth is always joy, always tranquility." And since He must have His own way concerning His children, into what wonderful green pastures of inward rest, and beside what blessedly still waters of inward refreshment is the soul led that learns this secret. If the will of God is our will, and if He always has His way, then we always have our way also, and we reign in a perpetual kingdom. He who sides with God cannot fail to win in every encounter; and, whether the result shall be joy or sorrow, failure or success, death or life, we may, under all circumstances, join in the Apostle's shout of victory, "Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!"
Hannah Whitall Smith
Online Books
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The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life By Hannah Whithall Smith "Settle down on this one thing," writes Hannah Whitall Smith, "that Jesus came to save you now, in this life, from the power and dominion of sin, and to make you more than conquerors through His power." The exciting message of freedom-from the bondage of sin, to the life of Christ-is what has made The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life a favourite for more than a century. Smith's masterwork is personal, practical, and powerful, and overflowing with substance for thought. More Hannah Whitall Smith Books |
November 29, 2003
Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. How do we destroy the works of the devil? We must manifest Jesus! The basis of our credibility is Christ revealed in and through us!
Reuven Doron
November 30, 2003
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
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