May 25, 2007
Beloved, whatever you are waiting for or believing for, God will not be late. The Lord is the the Healer. He is just. He is the dreamer of dreams and He answers prayers. Be ssured that He will bring that prodigal home..... Don't give up hope and one day you will see the resurrection you have been waiting for, come your way!
Cindy Jacobs
Generals of Intercession
December 15, 2011
I do not know anyone who goes through life without some wounding of the heart. Sometimes we take a little shower at Calvary rather than let God deeply cut and wash away the hurts with His atoning blood.
Cindy Jacobs
Generals of Intercession
February 1, 2012
No matter how unloved you have felt in the past, no matter how lost you feel in your sin, God knew all that when he chose you - and he wants you anyway.
Wayne Jacobsenan
July 5, 2009
If you have ever loved a person enough to find joy in making sacrifices for that person - then I beg you to give Jesus this kind of love. He himself is longing for you to do so. He loves you with more than the love of friendship. He loves you the way a bridegroom loves his bride, and nothing but total surrender will satisfy Him. He has given you all of Himself, and He asks for all of you in return. For your sake He poured out all He had, and for His sake you must do the same. Be generous in your surrender! Meet His measureless devotion for you with a measureless devotion to Him.
Catherine Jackson
May 2, 2008
Although we carry the light of Christ within us, many of us fail to recognize the exciting spiritual impact we have on others. We become distracted by the little things in life, unaware of how God's light within us challenges the darkness around us. Much of the time, we are focused only on those things which are seen (2 Corinthians 4:18) and limit our thinking to what is logical, rational, or tangible.
John Paul Jackson
Streams Ministries International
April 5, 2002
As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.
T. D. Jakes
Website
December 7, 2006
Timing is so important! If you are going to be successful in dance, you must be able to respond to rhythm and timing. It's the same in the Spirit. People who don't understand God's timing can become spiritually spastic, trying to make the right things happen at the wrong time. They don't get His rhythm - and everyone can tell they are out of step. They birth things prematurely, threatening the very lives of their God-given dreams.
T. D. Jakes
Website
November 25, 2008
That thing that is not coming to you may seem good. But either the timing is wrong, or from His position He can see that the future of it is bleak. I have always believed that people who thank God only for delivering them from what happened are just scraping the surface of praise. The real praise comes when you start thanking Him for what could have happened but didn't because of His swift grace!
T. D. Jakes
Website
November 19, 2009
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself. "This too shall pass"
T. D. Jakes
Website
July 19, 2010
Stand in a stream with waters around your ankles. The waters that pass by you at that moment, you will never see again. So it is with the misery that has challenged your life: Let it go, let it pass away.
T. D. Jakes
Website
June 15, 2011
Stand in a stream with waters around your ankles. The waters that pass by you at that moment, you will never see again. So it is with the misery that has challenged your life: Let it go, let it pass away.
T. D. Jakes
Website
July 11, 2009
We do not think enough of Christ's second coming. What would be said of the wife who, when her husband was away in another country, could be happy without him, and be contented to think rarely of him. On the contrary, the loving wife longs for her husband's return. Oh, when will he come back! is her frequent exclamation. Wife of the Lamb, church of the Saviour, where is thy Lord? Is this thy blessed hope, as it was that of the primitive church? O Christian, are these not wanting here? Every morsel of that bread thou eatest at the sacramental table, every drop of wine thou drinkest, is the voice of Christ saying to thee, I will come again, and receive you to myself; and should draw forth thy longing desires, Come, Lord Jesus; even so, come quickly.
John Angell James
Biography
June 20, 2005
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
Robert Jastrow
March 20, 2006
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle....eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow.
William Jenkyn
April 25, 2002
How often have we prayed something like, "O Lord, be with cousin Billy now in a special way"? Have we stopped to consider what it is we're requesting? Imagine that you are a parent who is preparing to leave your children with a babysitter. Would you dream of saying, "O Betsy, I ask you now that you would be with my children in a special way?" No way. You would say, "Betsy, the kids need to be in bed by 9 pm. They can have one snack before their baths, and please make sure they finish their homework. You can reach us at this number if there's any problem. Any questions before we go?" We are very specific with our requests and instructions for our babysitters. We want them to know specifics. It should be no different with prayer.
David Jeremiah
Turning Point
December 9, 2002
The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
David Jeremiah
Turning Point
August 1, 2009
Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.
David Jeremiah
Turning Point
January 13, 2012
I have come to understand there is no formula which is readily prescribed, easily taken, or immediately successful for encouraging other believers. What we are to them is often far more important than what we say. How we sit and listen and are a part of their lives is often far more important that the words we speak.
David Jeremiah
Turning Point
February 23, 2002
Christians are made, not born.
Jerome
Biography
September 22, 2004
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Jerome
Biography
March 12, 2006
If we only desire a small piece of God in our lives, we will similarly have only that same measure of His peace in them.
Brian G. Jett
December 3, 2009
As we prepare for our traditional celebrations, let us remember those who will not be looking forward to this festival. Let us remember too how Jesus identified with the oppressed and the homeless. Let the joy of the festival touch more of the people of our world this year than ever before. May God be glorified and may people of good will once again experience His peace.
Denzil John
February 19, 2010
I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ.
Griffith John
May 30, 2010
The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing; Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives.Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural powerÖ Brethren, this is what we must be...But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation.
Griffith John
August 29, 2003
Human being possess an abundance of God-like attributes, have the capacity of relating intimately with God, and also have responsibilities. To be made in the image of God is to be made like God. It would be foolish to take this statement too far and conclude that we actually are gods.
D. Gareth Jones
Department Head, Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otaga, New Zealand
January 21, 2006
Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it you are bound forever to the Giver, and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like, Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
April 17, 2006
Prayer is surrender - surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
November 26, 2008
Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me. A woman who was inwardly collapsed said to me, "Well, I have no faith of my own, but I do have faith in your faith." "Good," I replied, "take faith in my faith as a first step, and then you will go on to something infinitely better - faith in His faith." With faith in His faith you can do anything- anything that ought to be done. There is a passage which touches your need. "For the Eternal... will not let you go." Faith is not merely your holding on to God; it is God holding on to you. He will not let you go! As Walt Whitman puts it, "Not until the sun refuses to shine, do I refuse you." Then keep saying to your soul, "In quietness and in confidence shall be your faith." (Isaiah 30:15). Then repeat to your soul these words: "To say what ought to be cannot be is a brief and complete statement of atheism." It is. Say to yourself, "What ought to be can be, and I will make it so." And you will. And will go beyond yourself.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
November 12, 2009
I am inwardly fashioned for faith, not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry, my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence, I breathe freely - these are my native air. A John Hopkins University doctor says, "We do not know why it is that worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact." But I, who am simple of mind, think I know; We are inwardly constructed in nerve and tissue, brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. To live by worry is to live against reality.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
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
November 14, 2010
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
May 22, 2011
I need no outer props to hold up my faith, for my faith holds me.
Said when a stroke had rendered him immobile and almost speechless after years of missionary work in India.
Eli E. Stanley Jones
Biography
July 12, 2002
God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside. He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose.
Timothy Jones
Short Biography
August 31, 2002
His grace is great enough to meet the small things; the little pin-prick troubles that annoy, the insect worries, buzzing and persistent, the squeaking wheels that grate upon our joy.
Annie Johnson Flint
Short Biography
October 20, 2002
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson
Interview
August 23, 2005
There is always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. Right now, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Barbara Johnson
Interview<
September 25, 2006
A smile is the lighting system of the face and the heating system of the heart.
Barbara Johnson
Interview
November 20, 2008
I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.
Barbara Johnson
Interview
September 15, 2009
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Barbara Johnson
Interview
May 22, 2002
When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day's pay for his time, that is a wage. When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance, that is a prize. When a person receives appropriate recognition for his long service or high achievements, that is an award. But when a person is not capable of earning a wage, can win no prize, and deserves no award - yet receives such a gift anyway - that is a good picture of God's unmerited favour. This is what we mean when we talk about the grace of God.
Nita Johnson
World for Jesus
May 20, 2003
We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography
July 17, 2004
Is there not something captivating in the sight of a man or a woman burdened with many tribulations and yet carrying a heart as sound as a bell? Is there not something contagiously valorous in the vision of one who is greatly tempted, but is more than conqueror? Is it not heartening to see some pilgrim who is broken in body, but who retains the splendor of an unbroken patience? What a witness all this offers to the endowment of His grace!
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography
December 25, 2004
The Lord of Christmas tide entered into our life by lowly doors. And still He seeks the lowly doors: the door of the workshop, the door of the chamber, and all the unobtrusive doors of human friendship and regard.
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography
April 2, 2007
God does not comfort us to make us comfortable only, but to make us comforters.
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography and online Resources
October 28, 2009
Thank God for the commonplace people! They turn our houses into homes; they make life restful and sweet. Jesus loves the commonplace. Here then is a great, comforting thought: we are all loved - the brilliant and the commonplace, the dreamy and the practical.
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography and online Resources
October 4, 2010
The gospel of a broken heart demands the ministry of bleeding hearts...We can never heal the needs we do not feel. Tearless hearts can never be heralds of the passion. We must pity if we would redeem. We must bleed if we would be ministers of the saving blood.
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography and online Resources
November 5 - 7, 2011
(A three part series, speaking of changes in the character of the apostles after they encountered the Holy Spirit)... I look again at the lives of these apostles, and I find them distinguished by magnificent force of character. In the early days they were timid, pliable, unfaithful. In supreme crises they deserted their Master and fled. They were as reeds shaken by the wind. The wind that blew upon them from the haunts of desolation, the keen, perilous winds of persecution, made these disciples bend before their blast. The men were negative, hesitant, uncertain, altogether lacking in persistent force. But now the timid and fearful have become positive and affirmative. There is nothing lax about them, nothing wavering, nothing yielding. Their characters have become strong, and steady, and effective. I say they have got force of character, and they have the two elements that are always found in forceful character: they have light and they have heat. They have light in the sense of clarity of purpose. Their outlook is not confused. Their aim is perfectly clear. If we watch them in the service of their Lord we find them never to be diverted from their track. “This one thing I do.” They have this primary element in a forceful character, the clarity of an undivided aim. And the second element in a forceful character is heat, the fire of a quenchless enthusiasm. And they certainly had this fire in glorious strength and abundance. The Acts of the Apostles is a burning book. There is no cold or lukewarm patch from end to end. The disciples had been baptized with fire, with the holy, glowing enthusiasm caught from the altar of God. They had this central fire, from which every other purpose and faculty in the life gets its strength. This fire in the apostles’ soul was like a furnace-fire in a great liner, which drives her through the tempests and through the envious and engulfing deep. Nothing could stop these men! Nothing could hinder their going! “We cannot but speak the things that we have seen and heard.” “We must obey God rather than man.” This strong imperative rings throughout all their doings and all their speech. They have heat, and they have light, because they were baptized by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Dr. John Henry J. H. Jowett
Biography and online Resources
March 27, 2004
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
Adoniram Judson
Biography
June 7, 2002
This is our Lord's will,... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust as much as we pray, we fail in full worship to our Lord in our prayer; and also we hinder and hurt ourselves. The reason is that we do not know truly that our Lord is the ground from which our prayer springeth; nor do we know that it is given us by his grace and his love. If we knew this, it would make us trust to have of our Lord's gifts all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with sincerity, without mercy and grace being given to him first.
Juliana of Norwich
Biography
June 23, 2006
This blessed friend is Jesus; it is his will and plan that we hang on to him, and hold tight always, in whatever circumstances; for whether we are filthy or clean is all the same to his love.
Juliana of Norwich
Biography
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
May 27, 2010
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. This is our Lord's will,...that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust as much as we pray, we fail in full worship to our Lord in our prayer; and also we hinder and hurt ourselves. The reason is that we do not know truly that our Lord is the ground from which our prayer springeth; nor do we know that it is given us by his grace and his love. If we knew this, it would make us trust to have of our Lord's gifts all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with sincerity, without mercy and grace being given to him first.
Juliana of Norwich
Biography
May 23, 2011
The worst has already happened, and Christ has repaired the great disaster of the Fall.
Juliana of Norwich
Biography
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