
What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.
Cliff Richard

What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.
Cliff Richard

Life’s short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

We give thanks this morning for the incredible beauty of this day, for the magnificence of life, and for our own individual potential still untapped. As we reflect on these blessings, we praise God for the good signs in our own lives- good signs of the past and good signs ahead.
Richard G. Capen, Jr.

There is nothing that can be done with anger that cannot be done better without it.
Dallas Willard

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
Charles Swindoll

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with.
Thomas Kempis

Only as man brings his life into harmony with God does that life have balance and meaning. Then man finds that he is not simply a mass of dancing dirt, coming from nowhere and going nowhere.
Henry Schmidt

The whole duty and blessedness of waiting on God has its root in this, that He is such a blessed Being, full, to overflowing, of goodness and power and life and joy, that we, however wretched, cannot for any time come into contact with Him, without that life and power secretly, silently, beginning to enter into us and blessing us. God is Love! God’s love is just His delight to impart Himself and His blessedness to His children. Come, and however feeble you feel, just wait in His presence. As a feeble invalid is brought out into the sunshine to let its warmth go through him, come with all that is dark and cold in you into the sunshine of God’s holy, omnipotent love, and sit and wait there, with the one thought: Here I am, in the sunshine of His love. As the sun does its work in the weak one who seeks its rays, God will do His work in you.
Andrew Murray

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James Dobson

The more we know of God the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith.
John Gresham Machen

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
Corrie Ten Boom

Thanksgiving is good, but thanks-living is better!
Matthew Henry

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
John Calvin

Love people and use things. Donβt love things and use people.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things- I am tempted to think- there are no little things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
D. L. Moody

There are times when God wants to use you in someone else’s life; it may not be pretty or comfortable, but they need to see Jesus!

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one wasp!


He who doesn’t forgive another, Breaks down the bridge over which he must cross himself!

βImagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of β throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.β
C S Lewis
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen.
Michel de Montaigne

Don’t undervalue yourself. Your worth is what you are worth to God and that is a massive amount; Jesus valued you enough to die for you! ~Β Nicky Gumbel

βSome people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.β
βJust because you canβt see the air doesnβt mean you stop breathing. And just because you canβt see God doesnβt mean you stop believing.β

Lord, we are grateful that we can be a part of Your family. Help us to live in unity with our brothers and sisters in Christ so that others may see how gracious You are and want to know You too. Amen.

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone elseβs.

βThe words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?β

The bad stuff will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.

To ascertain where you really are with the Lord, recall what saddened you the past month. Was it the realization that you do not love Jesus enough? That you did not seek his face in prayer often enough? That you did not care for his people enough? Or did you get depressed over a lack of respect, criticism from an authority figure, your finances, a lack of friends, fears about the future, or your bulging waistline? ~Β Brennan Manning

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. Β Β Β Β Β ~ Nicky Gumbel

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Father,Β I have been waiting for so long now, and I come before You today to ask your help. I pray that You will increase my faith and patience so that I will put my whole trust in your perfect timing and plan for my life.Β I will put my complete trust in You with confidence and eager expectation of Your answer, whatever that answer may be and whenever that answer may come.
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Thanks that You hear my prayers and will answer in Your time and in Your way.Β
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see, the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ~Β Augustine
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Have you ever thought what a wonderful privilege it is that every one each day and each hour of the day has the liberty of asking God to meet him in the inner chamber and to hear what He has to say? ~Β Andrew Murray
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You are not an accident or the result of a random process; you are unique, wonderfully made by God, loved and valued – His masterpiece. – Nicky Gumbel
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We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. –Β D. A. Carson
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Father, I ask that You would give me a moment to pause, right now, to contemplate what You say is true about my natureβI need You to lead me into the Truth so that I can be free to live according to your will. I ask for your spirit to lead and empower me today, Amen.
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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11
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Let Jesus be in your heart, eternity in your spirit, the world under your feet, the will of God in your actions. And let the love of God shine forth from you. –Β Catherine of Genoa
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My Lord and my God, Your Word says I no longer live, but You live in me. I surrender to You now, and ask that in the big things and the little things my life would be a reflection of the radical Truth about who I am in You. I don’t want to make this up. I can’t do it in my own strength. I rest in You now and simply ask that You would live through me as You see fit. Praise to You! Amen.
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. –Β Charles West
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When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. –Β Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other necessaries convenient for their journey. So long as they help us forward in our way, let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them. But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens, let us leave them behind us, or cast them away.
— George Downame
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Father,Β your Spirit of truthΒ guides us to the way of Christ.Β May all who follow himΒ reject what is contrary to the gospel.Β We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
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“Easter is to our faith what water is to the ocean, what stone is to the mountain, what blood is to the body.” –Β Raymond Linquist
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“Don’t keep looking at regrets behind you, problems around you and sin inside you. Look up and see that God is with you.”
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