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"Wherever God's finger points, His hand will
clear a way."
"Never say in your heart what you will or
will not do but wait until God reveals His
way to
you. As long as that way is hidden,
it is clear that there is no need of action
and that He holds Himself accountable
for
all the results of keeping you exactly where
you are."
"For God through ways we have not known,
will lead
His own."
(Streams In The Desert - L. B. Cowman)
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Basically there are two kinds of people:
people who choose joy and people who don't.
People who choose joy pay
no attention to what
day of the week it is...or how old they are...
or what level of pain they are in. They have
deliberately
decided to laugh again because
they have chosen joy.
People who do not choose joy miss the relief
laughter can
bring. And because they do not,
they cannot. And because they can't they won't.
Which one are you?"
(Charles S.
Swindoll - Laugh Again)
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"Christians are to rejoice. To do that, you
need only to
think of the great things God has
done for you. Then we are told not to be anxious,
but in our prayers to make our
requests known to
God. In your biggest problems you have One to
whom you can go; and before Him you can pour out
your
heart with the assurance that He will not
leave you without an answer to that great problem.
Then we are to fill our
minds with those things
that are good. They are mentioned in the Scriptures
as being things that are true, honorable,
just, pure,
lovely, of good report, and of virtue. It is upon
these things that we are to think. Live positively,
not negatively. Once you learn that secret, God will
have given you the victory."
(Day By Day With Billy Graham)
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"Once I heard a song of sweetness,
As it filled the morning air,
Sounding in its blest completeness,
Like
a tender, pleading prayer;
And I sought to find the singer,
Where the wondrous song was borne;
And I found a bird,
quite wounded,
Pinned down by a cruel thorn.
I have seen a soul in sadness,
While its wings with pain were furled,
Giving hope, and cheer and gladness
That should bless a weeping world
And I knew that life of sweetness,
Was
of pain and sorrow borne,
And a stricken soul was singing,
With its heart against a thorn.
You are told of One
who loved you,
Of a Savior crucified,
You are told of nails that held Him,
And a spear that pierced His side;
You are told of cruel scourging,
Of a Savior bearing scorn,
And He died for your salvation,
With His brow
against a thorn.
You 'are not above the Master.'
Will you breathe a sweet refrain?
And His grace will be sufficient,
When your heart is pierced with pain.
Will you live to bless His loved ones,
Though your life be bruised and torn,
Like the bird that sang so sweetly,
With its heart against a thorn?"
(L. B. Cowman - Streams In The Desert)
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"This is the way to have eternal life -
to know you,
the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, the one you sent to earth."
(John 17:3) (New Living Translation)
"How do we
get eternal life? Jesus tells
us clearly here - by knowing God the Father
himself through His Son, Jesus Christ.
Eternal
life requires entering into a
personal relationship with God in Jesus
Christ. When we admit our sin and turn
away
from it, Christ's love lives in us
through the Holy Spirit." "I assure you,
those who listen to my message and
believe in God who sent me have eternal life.
They
will never be condemned for their sins,
but they have already passed from death into life."
(John 5:24)
"Eternal
life - living forever with God -
begins when you accept Jesus Christ as Savior.
At that moment, new life begins in
you. It is
a completed transaction. You will still face
physical death, but when Christ returns, your
body will
be resurrected to live forever with
Him in heaven."
"For it is my Father's will that all who see
His Son and believe
in Him should have eternal
life - that I should raise them at the last day." (John 6:40)
"Those who put their faith
in Christ will be
resurrected from physical death to eternal life
with God when Christ comes again."
"I assure
you, anyone who believes in me already
has eternal life. Yes, I am the bread of life!
Your ancestors ate manna in
the wilderness, but
they all died. However, the bread from heaven
gives eternal life to everyone who eats it. I
am
the living bread that came down out of heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live forever;
this bread is my flesh,
offered so the world
may live." (John 6:47-51).
"Here Jesus refers to the manna that God had
given their ancestors
in the wilderness during
Moses' time. This bread was physical and temporal.
The people ate it, and it sustained them
for a day.
But they had to get more bread every day, and this
bread could not keep them from dying. Jesus, who
is
much greater than Moses, offers Himself as the
spiritual bread from heaven that satisfies
completely and leads to
eternal life."
(Taken from Living Words of Jesus)
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"He went up on a mountainside by Himself to
pray.
When evening came, He was there alone."
(Matthew 14:23) (New International Version)
"Christ Jesus, in His humanity,
felt the need
of complete solitude - to be entirely by Himself,
alone with Himself. Each of us knows how
draining
constant interchange with others can
be and how it exhausts our energy. As part of
humankind, Jesus knew this and
felt the need to
be by Himself in order to regain His strength.
Solitude was also important to Him in order to
fully
realize His high calling, His human weakness,
and His total dependence on His Father.
As a Child of God, how much
more do we need times
of complete solitude - times to deal with the
spiritual realities of life and to be alone with
God the Father. If there was ever anyone who
could dispense with special times of solitude and fellowship, it was
our Lord. Yet even He could not maintain His full strength and power for His work
and His fellowship with the Father without
His
quiet time. God desires that every servant of
His would understand and perform this blessed
practice, that
His church would know how to train
its children to recognize this high and holy
privilege, and that every believer
would realize
the importance of making time for God alone.
Oh, the thought of having God all alone to myself
and
knowing that God has me all alone to Himself!"
(Andrew Murray)
"Lamartine, the first of the First Romantic poets
and
a writer of the nineteenth century, in one of
his books wrote of how his mother had a secluded
spot in the garden
where she spent the same hour
of each day. He related that nobody ever dreamed
of intruding upon her for even a moment
of that
hour. It was the holy garden of the Lord to her.
Pity those people who have no such Beulah land!
(See
Isa. 62:4.) Jesus said: 'Go into your room,
close the door and pray' (Matt. 6:6), for it is in
quiet solitude that
we catch the deep and mysterious
truths that flow from the soul of the things God
allows to enter our lives."
A Meditation
"My soul, practice being alone
with Christ!
The Scripture says, 'When He was alone with
His own disciples, He explained everything'
(Mark 4:34).
Do not wonder about the truth
of this verse, for it can be true of your life
as well. If you desire to have understanding,
then dismiss the crowd, just as Jesus did.
(See Matt. 14:22.) Let them 'go away one at
a time...until only Jesus
[is] left' (John 8:9)
with you. Have you ever pictured yourself as
the last remaining person on earth, or the only
person left in the entire universe?
If you were the only person remaining in the
universe, your every thought
would be, 'God and
I...! God and I...!' And yet He is already as
close to you as that. He is as near as if no
heart
but His and yours ever beat throughout the boundlessness of space.
O my soul, practice that solitude! Practice
dismissing
the crowd! Practice the stillness
of your heart! Practice the majestic song
'God and I! God and I!' Let no one come
between you and your wrestling angel! You
will receive conviction yet pardon, when you
meet Jesus alone!"
(George Matheson)
(Streams In The Desert - L. B. Cowman)
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"Having money can't buy everything, but then
again neither can having no money."
(Taken from Healing Through Humor by Charles
& Frances Hunter)
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The Bible teaches us that the Christian
life depends totally on God. He calls,
gives faith, saves by faith, confirms salvation, distributes spiritual gifts,
strengthens, and
keeps till the end.
God's favor is undeserved. No one can earn
it - not in the first century and
not today,
neither the Corinthians nor you. That's
God's faithful grace!
Regardless of your past sins or present
condition, if you have trusted in Christ as
Savior, God's grace is working in you. His
plan is to conform you
to the image of Christ,
to present you 'free from all blame on the
great day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns'.
So stop struggling. Receive His grace and
allow Him to continue His good work in your
life." (Living Water
For Those Who Thirst)
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"Drop Your still dews of quietness, till all
our strivings cease:
Take from our souls the strain and stress;
And let our ordered lives confess the
beauty
of Your peace.
Breathe through the pulses of desire
Your coolness and Your balm; Let
sense be mum, its beats expire:
Speak through the earthquake, wind
and fire, O still small voice of
calm!"
(Streams In The Desert - L. B.
Cowman)
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"My 'love letter' from God
is engraved
upon my heart."
(Taken from Mark My Word by
Reinhard Bonnke)
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