Category: Quotes

The presence of evil guarantees that history will be full of strife and that the world will look unredeemed. For a period of time, the kingdom of God must exist alongside an active rebellion against God. God’s kingdom advances slowly, humbly, like a secret invasion force operating within the kingdoms ruled by Satan.
–Philip Yancey

Humans, in their freedom, invited evil and sin into our lives by believing Satan instead of God.
God, in His patience, has allowed evil and sin and active rebellion to remain while He continue pursuing and rescuing those that will choose Him as their King.
Christians, in His service, now wage war against evil and sin, helping others to “taste and see” how good our great King is.

Realize that while we are here on this earth, things will not be rosy and comfortable and peaceful all the time. We live in a world that is in active rebellion against God. Therefore, history will be full of strive and we will have to endure through it as we work for His kingdom advancement.

God, help us endure through the difficult parts of the battles, knowing that You go before us and behind us and that you will have the final victory in the end. Thank You for helping us choose to be on Your side. Help us help others to do the same.

Very soon your life here will end….
Therefore, in every deed and every thought, act as though you were to die this very day….
It is better to avoid sin than to fear death….
Blessed is he who keeps the moment of death ever before his eyes and prepares for it every day….
In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, and when evening comes do not dare to promise yourself the dawn. Be always ready, therefore, and so live that death will never take you unprepared.
–Thomas à Kempis

Over 500 years ago, Thomas a Kempis wrote:
To many, the saying, “Deny thyself, take up thy cross and follow Me” (Matt. 16:24), seems hard, but it will be much harder to hear that final word: “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire” (Mat 25:41). Those who hear the word of the cross and follow it willingly now, need not fear that they will hear of eternal damnation on the day of judgment.
–Thomas à Kempis

These words are just as true today as they were 500 years ago and they were just as true 500 years ago as they were when they were written about 1500 years before that. And they will remain true 500 years into the future and 1500 years into the future. Because God’s Word – the Bible – is true.

I hope you are convinced of the truth of God’s Holy Bible. It has been tested, tried, researched, examined, critiqued… and what we find is that it stands the test of time, the test of internal evidence, the test of external evidence, and the manuscript/bibliography test. What we hold in our hands in the form of the Bible is the Word of God that He has preserved for us so that He could reveal Himself and His truths to us.

And if this is the case (and it is!), then according to God’s Word, there are only two choices – to choose For Jesus or to reject Jesus – one way is narrow and one way is broad, but only one leads to God and to heaven. There is exclusivity in the gospel message of Jesus – but that is OK, because there are some answers that are very narrow. 2+2 only has one answer. How do you get to heaven to live with God also has only one answer. Jesus himself said: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me. Therefore the ultimate question is have you chosen the narrow Way of belief in Jesus? And the next is are you sharing the truth of this one narrow Way with anyone else?

We proclaim the good news of what God has done primarily through the telling of the gospel. But the gospel is also proclaimed when we tell our story of salvation, for our conversion story illustrates the power of the gospel. Therefore, our task is to tell “his” story and “our” story in the hope that it may one day be “their” story.
–Rebecca Pippert

I hope you will say this same prayer I am praying for today:
God, give me an opportunity to tell the story of my salvation to someone today so I can share with them how your story intersected, interrupted, and totally transformed my story. Let me share this story with someone with the hopes that they would want their story to be intersected, interrupted, and totally transformed as well.

The gospel is not a help-wanted ad.
It is a help-available ad.
God is not looking for people to work for Him
but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.
–John Piper

Amen.
God, please work mightily in and through me.