Good Words for Today
"When the Lord wants to work a small miracle, He puts me in a difficult situation. When He wants to work a great miracle, He puts me in an impossible situation." Watchman Nee
What have you been sowing? Are you happy with what you’ve been reaping?
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” Charles Spurgeon
“Affliction works as our preacher and tutor. Sometimes a sickbed can teach us more than a sermon." Thomas Watson
O Lord, disturb us if that’s what needs to happen to shake us free from our excuses so that we will dare to follow you. Amen.
“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less." C. S. Lewis
"Drive shallow tent pegs, because we are moving on in the morning." Corrie Ten Boom
"Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave." G. K. Chesterton
"The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning It's time to sing Your song again Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me Let me be singing when the evening comes." Matt Redman
"The door of opportunity swings on the hinges of opposition." Bob Jones, Sr.
"Faith is a decision you make to believe that the dark road you are traveling on will eventually yield to a sunrise." Tony Evans
“One sin makes many. The Devil’s hounds run in packs.” Alexander Maclaren
When we try to help other people, we . . . "must not be high in our expectations nor harsh in our resentments nor hard in our impositions, but endeavor to make the best we can of everything and think the best we can of everybody." Matthew Henry
“No saint shall fall finally or fatally. Sorrow may bring us to the earth, and death may bring us to the grave, but lower we cannot sink, and out of the lowest of all we shall arise to the highest of all." Charles Spurgeon
"God loves to view the holy strivings of a soul pressing forward to the skies." Charles Spurgeon
"The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word." Charles Stanley
“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.” Francis Schaeffer
“Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” Charles Schultz
"Souls are expensive." Peter Odanga
"Though the waves and billows rise, there is at the helm a pilot who can guide our vessel in safety to the desired haven." Charles Simeon
Crucified people 1) face in only one direction, 2) can never turn back, 3) no longer have plans of their own. (based on A. W. Tozer)
A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in the little things is a big thing." Hudson Taylor
“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” Corrie Ten Boom
"And now, O Lord, this man of God, Who breaks the bread of life this morning -- Shadow him in the hollow of thy hand, And keep him out of the gunshot of the devil." James Weldon Johnson
"The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals." Charles Ryrie
You were not made to live in sin. You were made for better things.
Lord Jesus, I pray to be a load-lifter for a weary pilgrim today. Amen.
"No one ever cared for me like Jesus, There's no other friend so kind as He; No one else could take the sin and darkness from me, O how much He cared for me." Charles Weigle
"The highest form of repentance is not doing it again." Christopher Esget
"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." Garth Brooks
"How many of our churches today are sound, respectable--and lukewarm? What, then, must Christ's word be to them? What have we to hope for?--unless, by the mercy of God who in wrath remembers mercy, we find zeal to repent? Revive us, O Lord, before Judgment falls!" J. I. Packer
“A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.” Andrew Murray
“A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.” David Platt
Lord, thank you for friends who care enough to tell me the hard truth. I pray for grace to hear your voice through their words. Amen.
“Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.” Matt Chandler
Clothe yourself with Jesus early in the morning and you'll be well dressed all day long.
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” Hannah More
"He loved me ere I knew Him And all my love is due Him, He plunged me to victory, Beneath the cleansing flood." Eugene Bartlett 1939
Let God be God in your life. That means adjusting your hopes, your dreams, your agenda, and even your prayers to his will for your life.