When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.
Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.
But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.
How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!
Prayer is not intended to change God’s purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.
Just as the sinner’s despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer’s growth in grace.
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God’s mercies.
An honest heart loves the Truth.
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
A ‘god’ who’s will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.
Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.
Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.