April 1, 2008
He said not, "Thou shalt not be troubled, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased;" but He said, "Thou shalt not be overcome.
Juliana of Norwich
Biography
April 2-4 2008
There is among the saints of the Most High a chosen group - perhaps larger than we think - whose divinely appointed ministry is that of the prayer closet. There, on their knees with a world map before them, its members individually and methodically pray out the problems of the advance of the kingdom. They [intercessors] precede missionaries into areas where Christ has not been named; they observe them as they attack firmly-placed barriers, breaking down by the high explosive of authoritative prayer the satanic opposition that continues to impede the forward progress of the gospel. Because the working the Spirit of God is everywhere, working through some mysterious law, dependent on intercession, these unseen workers are the real pioneers of Christian missions. Unknown to themselves [the intercessors] their word in the heavenlies is mighty through God to the overthrowing of principalities and powers. National boundaries are melting down before the faith and fervor of their supplications.... True geographic prayer ministry needs close abiding in God.... They are trained in spiritual observation and can discern constant shifting of the lines of combat, which is not obvious to others.
John A. MacMillan
The Authority Of The Believer
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Authority of the Believer By John MacMillan Drawing on the concept of authority from Ephesians, MacMillan shows how authority can be used to confront demonic intrusions, both personal and corporate and to facilitate the extension of God's kingdom both local and global. Now with three-volumes-in-one (The Authority of the Believer, The Authority of the Intercessor and Encounter with Darkness), this classic challenges all believers to "learn the secret of victory through authority" and to overthrow the forces of darkness. 174 pages, softcover from WingSpread Publishers. |
April 5, 2008
Motion and busyness, no matter how great, yield nothing unless we allow God to give us the heart.
Grant Lovejoy
http://todayspreacher.faithsite.com/content.asp?CID=13914
Online Interview
April 6, 2008
The best way to help the world is to start by loving each other, not blandly, blindly, but realistically, with understanding and forebearance and forgiveness.
Madeleine L'Engle
April 7, 2008
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
Oswald Chambers
http://www.myutmost.org/
April 8, 2008
Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it...Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can not be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow, in which no work can be done any more than in yesterday.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
April 9, 2008
All born-again people are in training for rulership. Since the supreme law of that future social order, called the kingdom of God, is agape love, therefore their apprenticeship and training is for the learning of deep dimensions of this love. But deep dimensions of this love are only learned in the school of suffering. Purity is one thing, and maturity is another. The latter comes only through years of suffering. If we suffer, we shall also reign - because where there is little suffering, there is little love; no suffering, no love; no love, no rulership.
Paul Billheimer
April 10, 2008
Human compliments are like perfume. Smell them, enjoy them while they last. Please don't drink them; they will poison you.
Anonymous
April 11, 2008
"Thy kingdom come... on earth" is what we are saying. And if that were suddenly to happen, what then? What would stand and what would fall? Who would be welcomed in and who would be thrown the Hell out? Which if any of our most precious visions of what God is and of what human beings are would prove to be more or less on the mark and which would turn out to be phony as a three-dollar bill? Boldness indeed. To speak those words is to invite the tiger out of the cage, to unleash a power that makes atomic power look like a warm breeze.
Frederick Buechner
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1870/
Unofficial Website
April 12, 2008
he beginning, the middle, and end of your course must be dissatisfaction with self, and satisfaction with Christ. Be content to be satisfied with faith's glorious object, and let faith itself be forgotten. Faith, however perfect, has nothing to give you. It points you to Jesus. It bids you look away from itself to Him. It bids you look away from itself to Him. It says, "Christ is all." It bids you look to him who says, "Look upon me;" who says, "Fear not, I am the first and the last; I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive forevermore."
Horatius Bonar
http://members.aol.com/OrthodoxUM/BonarHome.html
The Horatius Bonar Homepage
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Words Old & New By Horatius Bonar "From the Publisher:" An anthology of quotations from some of the most significant figures in the Christian centuries, Words Old and New is a treasure-trove for personal or family meditation and devotion, and an attractive introduction to many of the men and women of faith in past centuries. 386 pgs |
April 13, 2008
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
http://csLewis.drzeus.net/
Into The Wardrobe
April 14, 2008
[Jesus] is strong...but He's also approachable. He is able to carry our load...but He'll never make us feel embarrassed or defeated for asking.
Joni Eareckson Tada
http://www.joniandfriends.org/
Joni and Friends
April 15, 2008
Have you been waiting upon God, dear troubled one, during long nights and weary days, and have feared that you were forgotten? Nay, lift up your head, and begin to praise Him even now for the deliverance which is on its way to you.
Anonymous
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April 16, 2008
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles G. Finney
Online Works and Biography
April 17, 2008
If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography And Bibliography
April 18, 2008
Dear Lord, in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share snd that which is unbearable,'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.
Frederick W. Faber
Biography
April 19, 2008
Let every one consider what his weak point is; in that is his trial. His trial is not in those things which are easy to him, but in that one thing, in those several things, whatever they are, in which to do his duty is against his nature. Never think yourself safe because you do your duty in ninety-nine points; it is the hundredth which is to be the ground of your self-denial. It is with reference to this you must watch and pray; pray continually for God's grace to help you, and watch with fear and trembling lest you fall. Oh that you may (as it were) sweep the house diligently to discover what you lack of the full measure of obedience! for, be quite sure, that this apparently small defect will influence your whole spirit and judgment in all things.
John Henry Newman
Biography
April 20, 2008
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
Blaise Pascal
Biography
April 21, 2008
Fish which always live in the depths of the ocean lose some of their faculties, like the Tibetan hermits who always live in the dark. The ostrich loses his power of flying because he does not use his wings. Therefore do not bury the gifts and talents which have been given to you, but use them, that you may enter into the joy of your Lord.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
A Short Biography
April 22, 2008
It is a precious thing beyond all words - especially in the hour of death - that we have a God whose nature is such that what pleases Him is not our work for Him but our need for Him.
John Piper
April 23, 2008
We come in the holiness of God's grace through us, for only because the LORD has invited us to come into his presence and has set us apart as his holy saints through the work of Christ can we possibly enter to worship him. Glory! How can we do anything but worship God as fully as possible with all the best gifts at our command? Glory! How can we respond in any way but with utter, wasteful (in the world's terms) devotion of lives? Glory! How can we help but want to be the church? How can we not seek eagerly to welcome our neighbours into the holy splendour?
Marva Dawn
Short Biography
April 24, 2008
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
Anonymous
April 25, 2008
To be in Christ - that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you - that is sanctification! To be in Christ - that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be in you - that makes you fit for earth! To be in Christ - that changes your destination; but for Christ to be in you - that changes your destiny! The one makes heaven your home - the other makes this world His workshop.
W. Ian Thomas
Excerpts from the writings of Major W. Ian Thomas
April 26, 2008
We must get rid of the pestilent, deadly notion that the amount of things we get through is the standard. The steadiness with which we radiate God is the standard.
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill Association
April 27, 2008
There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.
Francis de Sales
Biography And Works
April 28, 2008
There are three things to be seen in an intercessor which are not necessarily found in ordinary prayer: 1) Identification 2) Agony 3) Authority...Intercession so identifies the intercessor with the sufferer that it gives him/her a prevailing place with God.
Norman P. Grubb
Website
April 29, 2008
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography And Online Library
April 30 2008
If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.
Max Lucado
Upwords
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