Oh, yes! Give thanks to the LORD. When you consider the works of God in creation and redemption, sincerely, you cannot but eager to draw more thanks to God. There is a sense of pleading in drawing more gratitude. Yes, we must be exceptionally desperate to bring greater appreciation to God from ourselves as His people, especially in light of His goodness. That’s it!!!
C. S. Lewis said: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one…Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It…
Don’t forget that you are in for the accomplishment that is infinitely more than what you might ask or think! Simply, things might be dim and miserable around you now, yet keep your head held high. You have a preferred position. You are an offspring of the Most High God. His face is sparkling down on you. God is stating that it won’t be an average season. It won’t be a scarcely get-by season. No, you have to prepare because…
How best to interpret the Scripture in Ephesians 3:20-21 without underlining the notion of “far and beyond”? I can only encourage you that you reconcile with God and reflect on: “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the chu and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21 NLT). That’s it!!!
Yes, is it about the road to “birth” or “death”? William Willimon said: “The chief biblical analogy for baptism is not the water that washes but the flood that drowns. Discipleship is more than turning over a new leaf. It is more fitful and disorderly than gradual moral formation. Nothing less than daily, often painful, lifelong death will do. So Paul seems to know not whether to call what happened to him on the Damascus Road “birth” or “death” –…
Yes, if I can appreciate a joke to the detriment of another; on the off chance that I can help in any capacity slight another in the discussion, or even in thought, at that point I remain unaware of Calvary love. On the off chance that I can compose a cruel letter, talk an unpleasant word, think a dangerous idea without sorrow and disgrace, at that point, I remain unaware of Calvary love. Yes, if I don’t feel unquestionable more…
On the off chance that I belittle those whom I am called to serve, discuss their powerless focuses conversely maybe with what I consider as my reliable centres; if I receive a prevalent demeanour, overlooking “Who made thee vary? What’s more, what hast thou that thou hast not got?” Also, on the off chance that I end up underestimating slips, “Goodness, that is the thing that they generally do,” “Gracious she talks that way, he acts that way,” at that…
Amy Carmichael said: “If I am afraid to speak the truth, lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, “You do not understand,” or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other’s highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
What is more comfortable: to have the cure or to be in sound health? I’m saying to you; your confession should stop gratifying your problems. I mean, stop running down your life by keeping through your life looking down, thinking, “this problem is too big; it’s never going to work out.” Admittedly, I can see a season for new things! It’s a season for a new perspective. Get a new horizon. You need to know that you are not alone….
Yes, what is an actively benevolent love? Have you not heard that love is an educator? Yes, love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to learn, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by prolonged labor. Yet one must realize how to gain it, for it is difficult to learn, it is beyond a reasonable doubt gotten, it is won gradually by delayed work, for we should adore once in…