Good Words for Today
"All hail the pow’r of Jesus’ Name! Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all!"
"Trials dark on every hand, and we cannot understand All the ways that God could lead us to that blessèd promised land; But He guides us with His eye, and we’ll follow till we die, For we’ll understand it better by and by." "By and by, when the morning comes, When the saints of God are gathered home, We’ll tell the story how we’ve overcome, For we’ll understand it better by and by." Charles A. Tindley, 1905
"The dead in Christ shall rise first" (1 Thessalonians 4:16). "Jesus knows where all the bodies are buried." Jared Wilson
"The riches of his grace" (Ephesians 2:7). He takes the dead and raises them. He takes the enslaved and frees them. He takes the guilty and forgives them. He takes the lost and saves them. He turns his enemies into his friends. He takes the broken and restores them. He takes the lonely and adopts them. He takes the fallen and gives them new life. Grace is God’s total answer to the moral ruin of the human race. It is such a complete answer that nothing else could ever be added to it.
Whatever you have to do this week, God will equip you to do it. No matter how hard the road ahead, God has already started mending your nets and arming you for battle. He never calls you to any hard task without giving you what you need to get the job done.
Christian worship is more than choir practice for heaven. It's basic training for the war whose outcome has already been determined by King Jesus.
"The heart is more deceitful than anything else" (Jeremiah 17:9). Apart from grace, your heart is a beautiful liar.
The universe is not a democracy. Truth is not determined by majority vote.
“The true test of a man of God is how he treats people who cannot help him.” Adrian Rogers
"Weak and wounded sinner Lost and left to die O, raise your head, for love is passing by Come to Jesus Come to Jesus Come to Jesus and live!" Chris Rice
Who needs a kind word from you? Who needs a smile from you? Who needs to know you haven't forgotten them? Be the answer to their prayers today.
Our Father, may we never forget that every trial has a divine purpose. Help us to keep looking to Jesus as he leads us on to glory. Amen.
The arithmetic of salvation: He subtracted my sin. He added his righteousness.
The first step in repentance is to stop making excuses.
Don’t get frustrated when you forgive someone who doesn’t deserve it. Be glad. You’re only doing what God did for you.
"Whoever hates correction will die" (Proverbs 15:10). Failure isn’t final, but it might be fatal if you learn nothing from it.
Can God work miracles today? Yes! Every answered prayer is a miracle. Some are just more obvious than others.
"It is difficult to be indifferent to a wide-awake Christian." Clarence Jordan
“O how bold I would be if only I could hear Christ in the next room praying for me. But distance makes no difference. He is praying for me in heaven.” Andrew Murray
"Lord, make me humble, but don't let me know it." D. L. Moody
O Lord, may I never doubt your Word, but simply believe it, obey it, and build my life upon it. Amen.
"Just as I am, though tossed about With many a conflict, many a doubt; Fightings within, and fears without, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!"
"God has never run an ad for an administrative assistant." Stephen Davey
Don't look back. It might make you want to go back. That's a bad idea. Remember Lot's wife.
Lord Jesus, when I am discouraged and want to go back to Egypt, keep my feet marching toward Canaan. Amen.
"The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart’" (Jeremiah 1:5). God is at work in the womb and his fingerprints are everywhere. When you touch an unborn child, you touch the handiwork of God.
The hardest part of being thrown in a fiery furnace is deciding you'd rather go there than deny the Lord. Better to die in obedience than to live in shame.
“God doesn’t love some future version of you. He loves you now.” Matt Chandler
Desperation is not a bad thing if it leads you to Jesus.
"He forgives all your sin" (Psalm 103:3). Never be ashamed to ask for forgiveness. You cannot out-sin the grace of God. All means all.
“Your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matthew 6:8). He knew your need before you bowed you head. That means we don’t have to use big words or pray long prayers. We don’t have to worry about getting all the details correct or throw in flowery language when we pray. Just pray. If you leave anything out, God can fill in the blanks because he remembers what you forget.
You can run from your problems, or you can take your problems and run to the Lord. Which way will you run today?
May the miracle of good preaching be joined with the miracle of good listening today.
Anxiety is the result of imagining the future without God.
When Christ comes in, he turns our fear upside down.
"Leaders are never remembered for what they compromised on, but what they stood FOR. Take your stand. History is never kind to cowards." Dorothy Burton
Lord, we pray for all those lost in the darkness of sin. May the light of Jesus shine in their hearts today. Amen.
"For my pardon, this I see, Nothing but the blood of Jesus; For my cleansing this my plea, Nothing but the blood of Jesus."
You'll never regret being kind. Try to remember that today.
"Hear my cry to you, Lord. Let your word help me understand." (Psalm 119:169 NCV). Since true understanding comes from the Lord alone we should have the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. The newspaper tells me what is happening in the world. The Bible tells me what it means.