To whom do you belong?”
Answer honestly before you fall asleep for the night.
If you are not Christ’s, you are in a hard service—run away from your cruel master!
Enter into the service of the Lord of Love, and you will enjoy a life of blessedness.
~ Charles Spurgeon
“But you are the same, and your years have no end.”
~ Psalm 102:27
Our God never ages. God never gets in a bad mood or gets grumpy. He is not a younger or older version of Himself. He is as He was in creation, the burning bush, at Mt. Sinai, at Calvary- our God never changes!
“O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us,
to keep us in his grace and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills of this world in the next.”
~ Martin Rinkart
Hymn- Now Thank We All Our God
“I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself”
~ Philippians 4:11
“We do not need be taught to complain but we must be taught to rest in the will and good pleasure of the Lord our God.”
~ Charles Spurgeon
“Riches and honor come from you, and you are the ruler of everything.
Power and might are in your hand, and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.
Now therefore, our God, we give you thanks and praise your glorious name.”
~ 1 Chronicles 29:12-13
Be careful of moving on because where you are is difficult.
You could be walking away from experiencing God’s power and provision.
~ Crawford Loritts
“Be filled with the Spirit…giving thanks always for ALL things to God.”
~ Ephesians 5:18,20
An attitude of gratitude with the Lord is an indicator that we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
“For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but My steadfast love shall not depart from you, and My covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”
Isaiah 54:10
My soul, rest in the eternal kindness of the Lord,
~ Charles Spurgeon
Responsiveness is the hidden currency of leadership.
It’s the subtle, everyday signal that tells people you’re present, reliable, and engaged. You can’t delegate it…
It’s through simple, consistent actions that communicate
one thing:
you matter enough for me to respond.
~ Paul Scribner
“Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.”
Psalm 100:2
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise,
the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of His grace!
~ Charles Wesley
“Look unto me, & be saved.”
~ Isaiah 45:22
“The mind wanders, casting about. It worries over today and tomorrow, growing dizzy with its troubles and trials.
These troubles vanish when we look to God, but we must truly look: to look means to concentrate fully on Jesus.”
Oswald Chambers
“Every experience is like a jewel set in the texture of our life, on which God shines and makes interpretation and revelation of Himself.”
~ Phillip Brooks
Be still, my soul the Lord is on your side;
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to your God to order and provide;
In ev'ry change he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul your best, your heav’nly friend
Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end
Kathrina von Schlegel
“No amount of activity in the King’s service will make up for the neglect of the King Himself.”
~ Robert Murray M’Cheyne
“Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.
Whatever that is, just do the next thing.
God will meet you there.”
~ Elisabeth Elliot
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things…
Philippians 3:8
“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything else."
~ Charles Spurgeon
“Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.”
- John Wesley
“Then [Jesus] spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart.”
~ Luke 18:1
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.
~ F. B. Meyer
Whate’er my God ordains is right,
Here shall my stand be taken,
Though sorrow, need, or death be mine,
Yet I am not forsaken,
My Father’s care is round me there,
He holds me that I shall not fall,
And so to Him I leave it all.
~ Samuel Rodigast
Hymn
“The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace.”
~ Numbers 6:25-26
No one is really neutral about whether Christmas is true.
If the Son of God was really born in a manger, then we have lost the right to be in charge of our lives.
Who can be objective about a claim that, if it is true, means you’ve lost control of your life?
~ Tim Keller
“They gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us”
2 Corinthians 8:5
Life always starts by giving yourself first to God.
“Stop now and give yourself - your breath, your health or your sickness or your thoughts, your intents, all of who you are - to him.”
~ Mark Buchanan
“The Lord is my shepherd;
I have what I need. ”
Psalms 23:1 CSB
“You don't have to host your own life. You can fall into the good care of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ.”
Steve Cuss
“The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want”
Psalm 23:1
“At the front door of this Psalm, David is asserting something precious & formidable.
God is a shepherd.
But that doesn’t mean we’ll have everything we want.
It means we’ll lack nothing we need.”
~ Sam Allberry
“The Lord is good and upright; therefore he shows sinners the way.
He leads the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.”
~ Psalms 25:8-9
“But godliness with contentment is great gain,”
~ 1 Timothy 6:6
“Contentment, it turns out, isn't about getting a new life.
It’s about seeing the same life with new eyes.
Eyes of gratitude.
Eyes of love.”
John Ortberg
“if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation."
~ 2 Corinthians 5:17
“That kind of transformation does not come from turning a page on the calendar.
It comes from surrendering our lives to Christ.
He changes us from the inside-
And it is a change that lasts.”
Bryant Wright
“The very definition/meaning of being a follower of Jesus is now that I'm a follower of Jesus, now that Jesus is my sovereign king & Caesar is not, I've given my life to the King Jesus.
I don't host my life anymore.
I don't run my own life.
Jesus hosts my life.”
Steve Cuss
Luke 2: 1-10
“He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-even death on a cross!”
~ Philippians 2: 7-8
Jesus left heaven to become a man, to be our Savior and Lord.
“…Focus on this one thing:
Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.”
~ Philippians 3:13b-14
