August 1, 2006
So many times Christians are divided by forms of worship. We are divided by cultural, racial, generational, national, and denominational methods of worship. However, our unity as Christians will never be found in the exterior form of worship, but in the essence of our worship. Worship is rooted in who Jesus is. I am convinced that if we focus on Him, we will better love and appreciate on another ... It is the love that flows from the Lamb of God that brings us together and makes us one.
Sammy Tippit
Ministry Website
August 2, 2006
Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
More Oswald Chambers Materials
August 3, 2006
You know, Lord, how I serve you with great emotional ferver in the limelight. You know how eagerly I speak for you at a Women's Club. You know my genuine enthusiasm at a Bible study. But how would I react, I wonder, if you pointed to a basin of water and asked me to wash the calloused feet of a bent and wrinkled old woman day after day, month after month, in a room where nobody saw and nobody knew?
Ruth Harms Calkin
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Intimate Friendship with God, Revised Edition By Joy Dawson It sounds contradictory---we're called to be God's friend and to fear him. As you embark on this life-changing adventure, you'll discover how to balance reverence and communion, embrace God's attitude toward sin, attain godly wisdom, fulfill your destiny, and more. This 20th-anniversary edition features new stories and illustrations, and a foreword by Jack Hayford. 176 pages, softcover from Chosen. |
August 4, 2006
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith, is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.
John Bunyan
Online Library
August 5, 2006
Silence is golden but more often it is guilty. The normal thing for Christians is to speak of what they know, to deal frankly against error, and to maintain freedom of discussion whenever challenged by an honest appeal of plain facts. But to shut up like a clam is sin by omission - failure to study God's word or the fear of cost of unvoicing unpopular testimony.
Anonymous
August 6, 2006
Every person has fallen at some time in his life - most, many times. Peter's steps in denying Christ have since been traced by every human foot. Anyone can understand how he could have slept in the garden, when he should have watched and prayed. Most of us feel an almost unconscious sympathy for him. But there is something in Peter's life that is much greater than his sin. It is his repentance. We all too easily relate to Peter in his weakness, but few of us grasp the wonder of his change. Sinful Peter is one man, and repentant Peter another. That is the real lesson in his life.
Henry Drummond
August 7, 2006
My deep definition of sovereignty - He is God, and you are not!
Rod Parsley
August 8, 2006
Lord, for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray; Keep me, my God, from stain of sin just for today. Let me both diligently work, And duly pray. Let me be kind in word and deed, Just for today. Let me be slow to do my will, Prompt to obey; Help me to sacrifice myself Just for today. And if today my tide of life should ebb away, Give me thy sacraments divine, Sweet Lord today. So for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray, But keep me, guide me, love me, Lord, Just for today.
Sybil F. Partridge
Short Biography
August 9, 2006
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
August 10, 2006
The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
August 11, 2006
Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
August 12, 2006
I am by birth, of an insignificant and contemptible caste; so low, that if a Brahmin should chance to touch me, he must go and bathe in the Ganges to purify himself. Yet God has been pleased to call me, not merely to the knowledge of the gospel, but to the high office of teaching it to others. Speaking to an assembly of fellow Indians. If God had selected one of you learned Brahmins and made you the preacher, when you were successful in making converts, people would say it was the amazing learning of the Brahmin, and his great weight of character, that were the cause. But now, when anyone is convinced by my instrumentality, no one thinks of ascribing any of the praise to me; God gets all the glory.
Anonymous Indian Convert
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Victory Over Depression: How to Live Above Your Circumstances By Bob George "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," goes the old saying. Now George gives you a biblical recipe to help you conquer life's disappointments! In this updated edition of Living Above Your Circumstances, you'll discover how to live victoriously and experience the freedom that comes through dependence on Christ alone. Includes a new study section. 200 pages, softcover from Harvest. |
August 13, 2006
I called to mind something I read recently in a book likening the art of pottery to God (the Potter) and us (the clay). It said when the Potter puts the vessels in the furnace for firing, he frequently puts a vessel that has already been fired between the source of heat and the vessel so that the vessel is not hurt by the intensity of the heat. Being in the furnace right now, myself, I have seen that God has placed several dear friends by my side who have already been "fired" and who are deflecting the intensity of the situation – the dearest of those friends, of course, being Jesus!
Maureen Durner
August 14, 2006
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion (Christianity) is not to be confined to the church ... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in Thy Presence.
Susanna Wesley
Biography
August 15, 2006
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
August 16, 2006
God has brought us into this time; He, and not ourselves or some dark demon. If we are not fit to cope with that which He has prepared for us, we would have been utterly unfit for any condition that we imagine for ourselves. We are to live and wrestle in this time, and in no other. Let us humbly, tremblingly, manfully look at it, and we shall not wish that the sun could go back its ten degrees, or that we could go back with it. If easy times are departed, it is that the difficult times may make us more in earnest; that they may teach us not to depend on ourselves. If easy belief is impossible, it is that we may learn what belief is, and in whom it is to be placed.
Frederick Denison Maurice
Biography
August 17, 2006
There are three possible kinds of God: the god of one's own ego, in which the atheist believes, and which is also the god of modern confusionism; the god of nature, of stone and gold and silver, which belonged to the old religions of idolatry; and the Supreme God, who made both man and nature, and redeemed them both upon the cross. Those who tell us that they deny the existence of God are merely substituting one god for another.
Fulton John Sheen
August 18, 2006
Christ prays for unity, not uniformity. Where there are great pressures for uniformity, we should be suspicious. Christians do not have to look, dress, think, and act alike. The church is not an assembly line producing only Fords.
Joe Aldrich
August 19, 2006
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
Andrew Murray
Biography And Works
August 20, 2006
Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty stomachs.
Julio C. Ruibal
Website
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The Power of Prayer and Fasting By Marilyn Hickey Discover the rich spiritual benefits of fasting in this 21-day personalized plan. Featuring an interactive journal with faith confessions, Scriptures, teachings, space for reflections, and recipes for partial fasts, this program discusses your total health --- spirit, soul, and body --- and examines issues such as overeating, anxiety, depression, and fear. 256 pages, softcover from Warner Faith. |
August 21, 2006
Samson slew 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. I have destroyed as many relationships with the same weapon.
Anonymous
August 22, 2006
The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
Public Domain Texts
August 23, 2006
But I must confess that there are days when my circumstances don't seem to lend themselves to worship. Days when I feel so caught up in my own problems or so pulled down by my own depression that entering into worship would almost feel hypocritical. What am I to do on those days? - On those days I am to worship anyway! I am to bring the Lord what the Bible calls sacrificial praise: 'So through Jesus let us always offer to God our sacrifice of praise, coming from lips that speak His name.'(Hebrews 13:15)
Claire Cloninger
Biography and Bibliography
August 24, 2006
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography And Online Library
August 25, 2006
Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let be employed by You or laid aside for You, exalted for You or brought low by You. Let me have all things, let me have nothing, I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. Amen.
John Wesley
Wesley Centre
August 26, 2006
Work is a blessing. [YES! A BLESSING!] God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. - Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot's Website
August 27, 2006
No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.
Charles Stanley
In Touch
August 28, 2006
The church is never a place, but always a people; never a fold but always a flock; never a building but always a believing assembly. The church is you who pray, not where you pray.
Anonymous
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Welcome to the Family By John MacArthur Know somebody who's just recently put their faith in Christ? Best-selling author and Bible teacher John MacArthur's handy guide provides an easy-reading introduction to the new expectations, vocabulary, and challenges young Christians often encounter; along with tips on how to "plug in" to a church and become part of a fellowship of believers. |
August 29, 2006
God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The Why? becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory.... When I put the sovereignty of God beside his unfailing love, my heart can rest.
Verdell Davis
Brief Biography
August 30, 2006
When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
August 31, 2006
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.
Henry Martyn
July 2006 / August 2006 /
