We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency. ~Ravenhill~

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.Philippians 2:3

It is not for us who are passengers, to meddle with the chart and with the compass. Let that all-skilled Pilot alone with His own work.
--Hall

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

    Author: A.W. Toze

June 2, 2014

Our Idea of God

June 3, 2014

The Mightiest Thought the Mind Can Entertain

Thank you for your prayers , I am grateful for them. My son is on plane .... he had never been on one until today.  Praying for yours too.  Love to you too.... :-) 

June 4, 2014

A Right Belief about God

June 5, 2014

The Essence of Idolatry

June 6, 2014

A Lofty Concept of God

Thank you for stopping by to leave me a note. :-).  My son made it to where he was going. I only got to talk with him a few seconds though. Where he is staying he mentioned something about the cell towere was spotty. Not his exact words but how I remember.  I am hoping he can go somewhere and call me soon. I hope you continue to be active some here. I stop by sometimes without signing in but I do stop by.  I am learning from you and appreciate what you teach here. Love to you too.  ..

June 7

"What Is God Like?"

"Many tender-minded Christians fear to sin against love by daring to inquire into anything that comes wearing the cloak of Christianity and breathing the name of Jesus. They dare not examine the credentials of the latest prophet to hit their town lest they be guilty of rejecting something which may be of God. They timidly remember how the Pharisees refused to accept Christ when He came, and they do not want to be caught in the same snare, so they either reserve judgment or shut their eyes and accept everything without question. This is supposed to indicate a high degree of spirituality. But in sober fact it indicates no such thing. It may indeed be evidence of the absence of the Holy Spirit. Gullibility is not synonymous with spirituality. Faith is not a mental habit leading its possessor to open his mouth and swallow everything that has about it the color of the supernatural. Faith keeps its heart open to whatever is of God, and rejects everything that is not of God, however wonderful it may be. Try the spirits is a command of the Holy Spirit to the Church. We may sin as certainly by approving the spurious as by rejecting the genuine. And the current habit of refusing to take sides is not the way to avoid the question. To appraise things with a heart of love and then to act on the results is an obligation resting upon every Christian in the world. And the more as we see the day approaching." - A.W. Tozer

Monday, June 09, 2014

We are called the lights of the worldlight bearers, reflectors, candlesticks, lamps. We are to be kindled ourselves, and then we will burn and give light to others.

We are the only light the world has. The Lord could come down Himself and give light to the world, but He has chosen differently. He wants to send it through us, and if we do not give it the world will not have it. God does not put a meteor in the sky to tell us when to shine. We are to be giving light continually wherever we are-at home, among friends or in church. We should have the attitude that we may never have another opportunity, and so we should always be shining for Him. Let our lamps be trimmed and full of the oil of the Spirit. Above all, let us be a steady light to those without Christ.

Let me dwell in Timnath-serah,

Where the sun forever shines.

Where the night and darkness come not,

And the day no more declines.

"Truth is of course to be followed, but error is not to be severely denounced.  "Yes," says the world, "be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny yourself a little frivolity.  What's the good of criticizing something when it is so fashionable and everybody does it?" Multitudes of professing Christians yield to this cunning advice to their own eternal ruin.  If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness and leave the carnal world behind us. We must leave its maxims, pleasures, and religion and go far away to the place where the Lord calls His sanctified ones." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Come Ye Out From Among Them, Morning By Morning, June 27, pg. 181, Published 1984

Matthew 24:10-13

"At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved."

GRACE: The impression of many seems to be, that grace will pardon what it cannot prevent; in other words, that if the grace of the Gospel fails to save people from the commission of sin in this life; it will nevertheless pardon them and save them in sin, if it cannot save them from sin. Now, really, I understand the Gospel as teaching that men are saved from sin first, and as a consequence, from hell; and not that they are saved from hell while they are not saved from sin. Christ sanctifies when he saves. And this is the very first element or idea of salvation, saving from sin. "Thou shall call his name Jesus," said the angel, "for he shall save his people from their sins." "Having raised up his Son Jesus," says the apostle, "he hath sent him to bless you in turning every one of you from his iniquities." Let no one expect to saved from hell, unless the grace of the Gospel saves him first from sin.--Charles Finney

"When we leave the parameters of the Word of God, we drift onto The Sea of Subjectivity. In this Sea, spirituality becomes relative to whatever new revelation or vision that comes forth." - Jewel van der Merwe, The Sea Of Subjectivity, Discernment Ministries Newsletter, March/April 1999

"If our knowledge of the truth doesn't result in obedience, then we end up with a big head instead of a burning heart (1 Cor. 8:1; Luke 24:32), and truth becomes a toy to play with, not a tool to build with. Instead of building our Christian character, we only deceive ourselves and try to deceive others." - Warren Wiersbe, "Be Heroic," p. 46.

Stopping by to let you know I have been thinking about you. After while I will find the audio of LTs that you mentioned and listen to it. I first need to do some chores. I hope you are having a good day. I have tablet paper and pens now , so I will be able to write questions or thoughts . Love to you.

Thank you I didn't think about doing that but I will try.  I am nt good at studying but I have used that excuse to much . I hope you are have a beautiful day too. :-) <3

“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.” 
― Leonard Ravenhill

“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?” 
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

"People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad . . . The orthodox Church never took the tame course or accepted the conventions; the orthodox Church was never respectable . . . It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob . . . It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to avoid them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect." - G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Image, 1908, pp. 100-101

Blessed Prosperous 2014 Saturday-Thank you-There is so much grief, selfness, and other situations that are causing this world to lose the most in life that matters, L-O-V-E; I found the answer, I learned to pray  not for myself, but for others that are in need of a Spiritual Up lifting

The believer in Christ, full of His words,evermore consciously realizing union with Christ, charged with the thoughts, burning with the purposes...will have no will that is not in harmony with the Divine will. ~H.R. Reynolds~

There is no burden which, if we lift it cheerfully and bear it with love in our hearts, will not become a blessing to us. God means our tasks to be our helpers; to refuse to bend our shoulders to receive a load, is to decline a new opportunity for growth.
--J. R. Miller

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
--Richter

The Eternal Undefended

“A little before the end of the world, there shall be a very great apostasy, wherein great part of the world shall fall away from Christ and his church … This apostasy will be most like the apostasy of the devils of any that ever had before been. For the devils apostatized, and turned enemies to Christ, though they enjoyed the light of heaven. And these will apostatize, and turn enemies to him, though they have enjoyed the light and privileges of the glorious times of the church. That such should turn open and avowed enemies to Christ, and should seek the ruin of his church, will cry aloud for such immediate vengeance as was executed on the devils when they fell.” – Jonathan Edwards, History of the Work of Redemption, Period III From Christ’s Resurrection To The End Of The World

There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts down his foot he finds a rock beneath him.
--F. B. Meyer 

When I read this today, I thought of you. This totally describes who you are.

A thousand or ten thousand ordinary priests or pastors or teachers could labor quietly on almost unnoticed while the spiritual life of Israel or the church was normal. But let the people of God go astray from the paths of truth and immediately the specialist appeared almost out of nowhere. His instinct for trouble brought him to the help of the Lord and of Israel.

Such a man was likely to be drastic, radical, possibly at times violent, and the curious crowd that gathered to watch him work soon branded him as extreme, fanatical, negative. And in a sense they were right. He was single-minded, severe, fearless, and these were the qualities the circumstances demanded. He shocked some, frightened others and alienated not a few, but he knew who had called him and what he was sent to do. His ministry was geared to the emergency, and that fact marked him out as different, a man apart.

A.W. Tozer

By the way, you're the man who comes out of nowhere, not the 10,000 ordinary priests or pastors. ROFL

God has not commanded you to be admired or esteemed. He has never bidden you defend your character. He has not set you at work to contradict falsehood (about yourself), which Satan's or God's servants may start to peddle, or to track down every rumor that threatens your reputation. If you do these things, you will do nothing else; you will be at work for yourself and not for the Lord.

Author Unknown

“Jesus never concealed the fact that his religion included a demand as well as an offer. Indeed, the demand was as total as the offer was free. If he offered men his salvation, he also demanded their submission. He gave no encouragement whatever to thoughtless applicants for discipleship. He brought no pressure to bear on any inquirer. He sent irresponsible enthusiasts away empty. Luke tells of three men who either volunteered, or were invited, to follow Jesus; but no one passed the Lord’s test. The rich young ruler, too, moral, earnest and attractive, who wanted eternal life on his own terms, went away sorrowful, with his riches intact but with neither life nor Christ as his possession…The Christian landscape is strewn with the wreckage of derelict, half built towers—the ruins of those who began to build and were unable to finish. For thousands of people still ignore Christ’s warning and undertake to follow him without first pausing to reflect on the cost of doing so. The result is the great scandal of Christendom today, so called “nominal Christianity.” In countries to which Christian civilization has spread, large numbers of people have covered themselves with a decent, but thin, veneer of Christianity. They have allowed themselves to become somewhat involved, enough to be respectable but not enough to be uncomfortable. Their religion is a great, soft cushion. It protects them from the hard unpleasantness of life, while changing its place and shape to suit their convenience. No wonder the cynics speak of hypocrites in the church and dismiss religion as escapism…The message of Jesus was very different. He never lowered his standards or modified his conditions to make his call more readily acceptable. He asked his first disciples, and he has asked every disciple since, to give him their thoughtful and total commitment. Nothing less than this will do” 
― John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

"In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead . . . I charge you!" 2 Timothy 4:1 

Life is very serious!

We are always standing before God who is our Judge.

Our commonest days — are judgment days.

We should learn to do everything "in the presence of God". This makes every word and act serious.

If only we were more conscious of God and of eternity — we would live better!

http://www.gracegems.org/D/miller.htm

Today is the day of Salvation Janie, don't keep putting it off, please don't

When I first read the above comment from you... it sure made me think.  There is so much death so much people seemingly falling away. Unsaved loved ones unsaved strangers ect.   I  need to try..... thank you for writing. I sent a private message... much love to you.

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ” 
― A.W. Tozer

"Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be you dismayed: for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9

August 7

God Knows and Cares as No One Else

"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping the country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced." - Oliver B. Greene

"Objection is often raised even by some sound in the faith-regarding the exposure of error as being entirely negative and of no real edification. Of late, the hue and cry has been against any and all negative teaching. But the brethren who assume this attitude forget that a large part of the New Testament, both of the teaching of our blessed Lord Himself and the writings of the apostles, is made up of this very character of ministry-namely, showing the Satanic origin and, therefore, the unsettling results of the propagation of erroneous systems which Peter, in his second epistle, so definitely refers to as 'damnable heresies'." - Harry A. Ironside

Wisdom from Oswald Chambers

"My contention is that the concepts I have shown from the Bible in the article called Admit, Commit & Submit are being systematically removed from the Gospel message in favor of a message that appeals to the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.  These concepts, that are an integral part of the Gospel, are being left behind in favor of a "gospel" that has the power to draw large crowds but has been stripped of the power to save.  In the rush to get larger numbers of people chalked up, many times for financial reasons, the hard truths of the Gospel are being stripped away.  What is left is a message about the love of God without the wrath of God--a message of the mercy of God without the requirements of God." - Sandy Simpson, Admit, Commit & Submit, 7/03

“IS NOT MY WORD LIKE FIRE?” DECLARES THE LORD, “AND LIKE A HAMMER WHICH SHATTERS A ROCK?” (JEREMIAH 23:29)

“Octavius Winslow summed it up in a neat statement: ‘Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; – but the Father, for love!’29” 
― John R.W. Stott, The Cross of Christ

“Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.” 
― A.W. Tozer, And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John

“Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.” 
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

A BIRTH FROM ABOVE
A.W. Tozer:
This may sound like heresy in some quarters, but I have come to this conclusion-that there are far too many among us who have thought that they accepted Christ, but nothing has come of it within their own lives and desires and habits! This kind of philosophy in soul-winning-the idea that it is "the easiest thing in the world to
accept Jesus"-permits the man or woman to accept Christ by an impulse of the mind or of the emotions. It allows us to gulp twice and sense an emotional feeling that has come over us, and then say, "I have accepted Christ." These are spiritual matters about which we must be legitimately honest and in which we must seek the
discernment of the Holy Spirit. These are things about which we cannot afford to be wrong; to be wrong is still to be lost and far from God. Let us never forget that the Word of God stresses the importance of conviction and concern and repentance when it comes to conversion, spiritual regeneration, being born from above by the
Spirit of God!