February 2012
31 posts
Simply David Yoon*: To all the sisters out there I... →
he may have written it for sisters, but it was amazingly rebuking for me as well.
simplydavidyoon:
I see a lot of posts and statuses all saying that they want a guy who puts God first. In fact I hear that said a lot by a lot of sisters. I’m glad you’re saying that, but I just want to ask you all and want you to ask yourselves to genuinely consider what that entails.
Simply put it’s this:...
“Lord, help me to appreciate this person without elevating him (or her) above You...”
– Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye)
“God, interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You’re...”
– Francis Chan (via pepper-ish)
Joy is given, not earned.
“While it may be true that areas of our life can affect our spiritual life, thinking that something’s wrong with our spiritual life EVERY TIME we feel dry causes us to return to a works based salvation. Joy is GIVEN by God, not worked for or earned by man. There are seasons that God brings you through because He desires obedience beyond what you feel. ” - Clark Fobes IV
Truly,...
“And even though we look weak. And even though physically and naturally we are...”
– Eric Ludy
“We should all have someone in our lives on whom we can look back and say, ‘I saw...”
– Max Lucado (via littlethingsaboutgod)
“Charity begins today. Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the...”
– Mother Teresa (via littlethingsaboutgod)
“To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness. Concern...”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest (via pepper-ish)
If you're too busy for God, then it's time to...
“Beware of isolation; beware of the idea that you have to develop a holy life...”
– Oswald Chambers (via pepper-ish)
“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Do you pray because you’re hungry for God or do you pray to appease your...”
– Mychail Haney (via littlethingsaboutgod)
christyywoo:
When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done; When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father’s full giving is only begun His love has no limits, His grace has no measure, His power has not boundary known unto men; For out of His infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again Annie Johnson Flint
“Material Wealth may cloak a spiritual poverty.”
– Andrew Naselli
“Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless...”
– Graham Cooke (via lomitch)
Prayer reminds you that you're not in control and...
“Have you delivered yourself over to exhaustion because of the way you have been...”
– My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers; 2/9/2012 (via skawroanh)
My wicked heart.
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” - Proverbs 4:23 How important it is for our hearts to be guarded and to be set upon our Lord. But I have not the strength to obey my Lord! In fact, my own heart tricks me! I am utterly disturbed at how well my heart hides my sin! Truly,
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can...
Wonderful Reminders.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie Dillard “The God of the universe— the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor— loves us with a radical, unconditional self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.” - Francis Chan
Each day is another day given by...
he who has ears, let him hear: Are You Spiritually... →
ohhyemin:
junmo:
I have just posted this on facebook but I wanted to encourage all the saints with more than just a facebook status update.
Serving our God is something every Christian is called to do. My pastor once told me a Christian who does not serve is a contradiction because it just doesn’t make sense. Are…
Good reminder.
GOD first, life second. =): Epistemologos →
ohhyemin:
samuelock:
Epistemology according to the Bible -
“5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. 8 This will bring health to…
Recurring theme these days.
"How to get Wisdom."
“Moderns want techniques for guidance - but the Bible calls us to character. Pagans looked for signs and omens, and read the stars, for they wanted impersonal knowledge of what was going to happen.
The Bible instead directs us to know personally the one in charge of the world, and then, through wisdom, ‘He will direct your paths’ (Proverbs 3:5,6)
Knowing God is the beginning...
Watchbaboxnancy:
LOVE costs every thing
How neglectful I’ve grown towards my brothers and sisters dying for the name of Christ.
Jesus Chooses and Uses Failures →
Jon Bloom:
Shame over past failures and sins can haunt and inhibit us in many ways. And Satan seeks to steal and destroy our faith by shoving our failures in our face. But Jesus intends to redeem us completely.
When Jesus chose you to be his disciple, he foresaw your future failures as sure as he foresaw Peter’s. We may not want to believe that we could deny Jesus by engaging in a sin that...
“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those...”
– Psalm 103:11-12
Humble King.
“11 The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in...
“…if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth...”
– Ravi Zacharias
“If Jesus has your heart, He will have your will. If He has your heart, He will...”
– Paul Washer (via martelthechristianrapper)
randomly preselected: Living Loved →
ohhyemin:
jonbaik:
God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world….This is real love. (1 John 4:9)
“Apart from God, “the heart is deceitful above all things” (Jer. 17:9(. A marriage-saving love is not within us. A friendship-preserving devotion cannot be found in our hearts. We need help…
Pay it forward.
January 2012
65 posts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he...”
– John 15:5
“Don’t rest on past reading. Read your Bible more and more every year. Read it...”
– John Piper
“Grace does not just save us and then leave us alone. No, grace saves us and then...”
– Tim Challies (via foreverbeloved)
“I used to think that if a man came into my house to attack my wife, I would...”
– Richard Phillips, The Masculine Mandate
“Our heavenly Father allows suffering to train his children because, though he...”
– Jimmy Davis
“I have walked through the fire and have smelled the stench of charred skin, but...”
– Christine Davis - After having 38% of her body burned
“This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” -...
“From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. ‘You do not want to leave too, do you?’ Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.’ Then Jesus replied, ‘Have I not chosen you, the...
"Rather than use self-dependent discipline to help...
“Hearing the word of the cross, and preaching it to ourselves, is the central strategy for sinners in the fight for joy. Nothing works without this. Here is where we start. And here is where we stay. We never outgrow the gospel.”
- John Piper
"If I'm going to live like a man, I'm going to...
“Prayer, whether schedule or spontaneous declares my dependence on God. Prayerlessness, on the other hand, declares the felt independence of a me-first heart.” - Jimmy Davis
“We may assent to the fact that we depend on Christ, but if our prayer life is meager or perfunctory, we thereby deny it. We are in effect saying that we can handle most of our spiritual life with our own...
Spiritual Disciplines must point back to the...
“The purpose of spiritual disciplines is to make room in my life to ‘repent and believe in the gospel’ (Mark 1:15), to forsake my broke cisterns and drink again from ‘the fountain of living waters’ (Jeremiah 2:13).” - Jimmy Davis
“Too often I settle for going through the motions of Bible reading or prayer, making them merely empty activities on my daily...
Returning to the gospel again and again.
“By hearing with faith is not only the way to start the Christian life but is also the way to continue it day by day.”
- Tim A. Blankenship
“…there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us…”
– Richard Sibbes
Faith . Hope . L O V E .: Accountability →
ohhyemin:
A friend shared some common misconceptions about accountability that he learned from a UR seminar..
WHAT IS ACCOUNTABILITY? Accountability is an active participation in giving and receiving from other believers. - Teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness - It’s the…
“There are times, and there will be times, when it will be absolutely clear that...”
– Johannes Facius (via set-apartgirl)
Reminder to self.
“I said to the LORD, ‘You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.’” - Psalm 16:2
christyywoo:
If you believe in a God who controls big things, you have to believe in a God who controls little things.
There is no great with Thee, there is no small, For thou art all and fillest of all.
Elisabeth Elliot
“The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize...”
– Hilary of Poitiers