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"God's Love" by Helen Steiner
Rice
"God's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide -
A peaceful, quiet shelter
From the
restless, rising tide...
God's love is like an anchor
When the angry billows roll -
A mooring in the storms of
life,
A stronghold for the soul...
God's love is like a fortress
And we seek protection there
When the waves
of tribulation
Seem to drown us in despair...
God's love is like a harbor
Where our souls can find sweet rest
From the struggle and the tension
Of life's fast and futile quest...
God's love is like a beacon
Burning bright
with faith and prayer
And through the changing scenes of life
We can find a haven there!"
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"My prayer for you is simply that this
glorious communion of the Holy Spirit (without which I could not live one hour) shall come upon you in a special way as your
will and your life become one with God's perfect will. I know that each of us only begins to live when we know Him in the
power of the Spirit, and I challenge you to begin that life now, a life of yieldedness and surrender to Jesus Christ."
(Kathryn
Kuhlman - Lord, Teach Us To Pray)
************************************************** "The Eye of the Storm"
"Fear not that the whirlwind
will carry you hence,
Nor wait for its onslaught in breathless suspense,
Nor shrink from the blight of the terrible
hail,
But pass through the edge to the heart of the tale,
For there is a shelter, sunlighted and warm,
And Faith
sees her God through the eye of the storm.
The passionate tempest with rush and wild roar
And threatenings of evil
may beat on the shore,
The waves may be mountains, the fields battle plains,
And the earth be immersed in a deluge
of rains,
Yet, the soul, stayed on God, may sing bravely its psalm,
For the heart of the storm is the center of calm.
Let hope be not quenched in the blackness of night,
Though the cyclone awhile may have blotted the light,
For
behind the great darkness the stars ever shine,
And the light of God's heavens, His love will make thine,
Let no gloom
dim your eyes, but uplift them on high
To the face of your God and the blue of His sky.
The storm is your shelter
from danger and sin,
And God Himself takes you for safety within;
The tempest with Him passes into deep calm,
And
the roar of the winds is the sound of a psalm.
Be glad and serene when the tempest clouds form;
God smiles on His
child in the eye of the storm."
(Taken from Streams In The Desert)
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"My Resolution" (Author Unknown)
"I
won't look back;
God knows the fruitless efforts,
The wasted hours, the sinning, the regrets;
I'll leave them
all with Him who blots the record,
And mercifully forgives and then forgets.
I won't look forward; God sees all the
future,
The road that, short or long, will lead me home,
And He will face with me its every trial,
And bear with
me the burdens that may come.
But I'll look up - into the face of Jesus,
For there my heart can rest, my fears are
stilled;
And there is joy and love, and light for darkness,
And perfect peace, and every hope fulfilled."
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"The ark of the covenant
of the LORD went before them." (Numbers 10:33) (New International Version)
"God sometimes does influence us with a simple
touch
or feeling, but not so we would act on the feeling.
If the touch is from Him, He will then provide
sufficient
evidence to confirm it beyond the slightest
doubt. Consider the beautiful story of Jeremiah, when he felt God leading
him to purchase the field at Anathoth. He did not act on his initial feeling but waited for God to completely fulfill His
words to him before taking action. Then once his cousin came to him, bringing the external evidence of God's direction by
making a proposal for the purchase, he responded and said, 'I KNEW THAT THIS WAS THE WORD OF THE LORD' (Jer. 32:8).
Jeremiah
waited until God confirmed his feeling through a providential act, and then he worked with a clear view of the facts, which
God could also use to bring conviction to others. God wants us to act only once we have His mind on a certain situation. We
are not to ignore the Shepherd's personal voice to us, but like 'Paul and his companions' (Acts 16:6) at Troas,
we are
to listen and also examine His providential
work in our circumstances, in order to glean the full
mind of the Lord."
(A. B. Simpson - Streams In The Desert)
"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."
(L. B. Cowman - Streams
In The Desert)
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"More than a Copy" by Alice Hansche Mortenson
"Jesus within me
wants me to be
more than a copy
of someone I see;
but a loving example,
pure within,
and outwardly reflecting
the image of Him!"
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"Proverbs 1:7 reveals the first step
in finding wisdom: fear of the Lord.
He is the source of all wisdom.
'Fear of the LORD is the beginning
of
knowledge. Only fools despise
wisdom and discipline.'
(New Living Translation)
God's wisdom is very different
than
the world's wisdom. First Corinthians
2:5-7 teaches that the 'secret wisdom
of God' is the message of salvation.
We begin to receive God's wisdom when
we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior.
'I did this so that you might trust
the power of God rather than human
wisdom. Yet when I am among mature
Christians, I do speak with words of
wisdom,
but not the kind of wisdom
that belongs to this world, and not
the kind that appeals to the rulers
of this world,
who are being brought
to nothing. No, the wisdom we speak
of is the secret wisdom of God, which
was hidden in
former times, though He
made it for our benefit before the
world began.' (New Living Translation)
James
1:5 offers hope to everyone
thirsting for wisdom. James, under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
promises us
that God is eager to
give us wisdom. The only thing we
need to do is ask in faith.
'If you need wisdom - if you
want
to know what God wants you to do -
ask Him, and He will gladly tell you.
He will not resent your asking.'
(New Living Translation)
Doubts assail like gale-force winds,
tossing us this way and that. We
wonder what
to do, which way to turn,
what direction to take. We may even
question our faith, doubting God's
goodness or even
that He is there.
Like night storms, difficult circum-
stances terrify us, confuse us, and
fill us with anxiety.
But God's
truth cuts through the darkness like
the powerful beam from a lighthouse,
providing warning, direction,
security,
and hope.
We aren't abandoned to our doubts and
uncertainties; God tells us to ask Him
for wisdom,
and He will answer...'gladly'.
Do you want to know what to do? Do you
desire to follow God's way? Do you need
His
wisdom for the decisions you face?
Just ask in faith. He promises to give
you His wisdom."
(Taken From Living Water
For Those
Who Thirst)
:-) :-) :-)
"Old age is when former classmates are
so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you."
(Taken from Healing Through Humor by
Charles & Frances Hunter)
:-) :-) :-)
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"This Life of Mine" by Vera J. Davis
"This
life of mine Can nothing be
If I don't give it, Lord, to Thee;
For only Thou Canst see ahead
How rough the way
That I must tread.
And, only Thou New life can give
When I have lost The will to live;
When hope has died And
dreams have fled,
When o'er the wreck My tears are shed.
Oh, take it, Lord, This life of mine,
And fill it with
Thy love divine;
For only Thou Dost know the way
That leads me to Eternal Day!"
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"The Gift of Grace...
'Those
who find me find life, and the LORD will be pleased with them.' (Proverbs 8:35)
Grace is created by God and given to man...On
the basis of this point alone, Christianity, is set apart from any other religion in the world...Every other approach to God
is a bartering system; if I do this, God will do that. I'm either saved by works (what I do), emotions (what I experience),
or knowledge (what I know).
By contrast, Christianity has no whiff of negotiation at all. Man is not the negotiator; indeed,
man has no grounds from which to negotiate."
(Max Lucado - Grace For The Moment)
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"The Path" by Colette Fedor
"God's
wisdom is within us
Showing us the way,
To live each day for Him alone
And from the path not stray.
The path
is strewn with many thorns
And snares to block our way,
But these are only stepping stones
To teach us how to
pray.
It's for His will, not ours you see
That we are meant to be,
And every prayer is one more step
On the
pathway to be free."
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"It is God himself who has made us what
we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago He planned
that we should spend these lives in helping others." (Ephesians 2:10)
(The Living Bible)
"Happiness and
all of the unlimited benefits which flow from the storehouse of heaven are contingent upon our relationship to God. Absolute
dependency and absolute yieldedness are the conditions of being His child. Only His children are entitled to receive those
things that lend themselves to happiness; and in order to be His child, there must be the surrender of the will to Him. We
must admit we are poor before we can be made rich. We must admit we are destitute before we can become children of adoption.
When we realize that all our own goodness is as filthy rags in God's sight, and become aware of the destructive power of our
stubborn wills; when we realize our absolute dependence upon the grace of God through faith and nothing more, then we have
started on the road to happiness. Man does not come to know God through works - he comes to know God by faith through grace.
You cannot work your way toward happiness and heaven, you cannot moralize your way, you cannot reform your way, you cannot
buy your way. It comes as a gift of God through Christ."
(Taken from Day By Day With Billy Graham"
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"Great Hearts" by Loreta Inman
"The greatest
heart that ever beat
Was in some patient soul
That found day's common duties sweet,
And found God makes life whole."
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"This Peace He Gives" by Alice
Hansche Mortenson
"I know not why my pathway leads
Through valleys rough and steep,
But this I know, while
walking there
I've found communion sweet
With those I love, and, best of all,
With Him who climbed the hill
That
led to Calvary.
I know not why so many props
Have gently been removed,
But I do know through every loss
His
arms unfailing proved.
I have no reason, none at all,
To doubt His precious Word;
Though all I love be swept away,
His voice would still be heard
Above the storm and, as I lift
My tear-filled eyes to Him,
The great Creator,
Lord of all,
He whispers, 'Peace," within.
So as I look beyond today,
I pray that I may share
This peace He
gives with those who have
A greater cross to bear.
I know not now how long 'twill be
Before He calls me home,
But this I know - beneath His wings
I'll never be alone!"
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"I choose to grow in my
faith in Christ,
and to
share my faith with
others."
(Taken from Mark My Word
by Reinhard Bonnke)
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His hand
formed you and made
you the person you are.
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"BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD..."
(Psalm 27:4)
(King James Version)
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My prayer for you is that you would invite Jesus into your heart & make Him the Lord of your life! Give Him FULL control!
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