Posted in Dwight Moody, tagged A Word in Season, Believing God, Believing God's Word, Dwight Moody, faith, Faith to live by, Living Faith, Luke 4:4, Romans 10:17 on April 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »
“Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God’ (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word”
– Dwight Moody
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
– Luke 4:4
Posted in Thomas De Witt Talmage, tagged 2 Corinthians 3:3, A Word in Season, Authentic Living, Becoming True by Grace, Christian Character, Living Epistles, The Bible, Thomas De Witt Talmage, True Life on April 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
“I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.”
– Thomas De Witt Talmage
“Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God”
– 2 Corinthians 3:3
Posted in Watchman Nee, tagged A Word in Season, Quote for Today, Quote of the Day, The Blood of Jesus, The Workings of the Cross, Watchman Nee on April 14, 2018| 2 Comments »
“The Blood deals with what we have done,
whereas the Cross deals with what we are”
– Watchman Nee
Posted in John Wesley, tagged A Word in Season, Active Faith, Be Zealous, Faithfulness, Good Stewards of God's Grace, Holy Zeal, John Wesley, Living Faith, Luke 10:27, Quote for Today, Quote of the Day, Stir up God's Gift on April 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
“To him that hath” that is, useth what he hath, it shall be given still and that more abundantly. Therefore, use your every grace, stir up the gift of God that is in you, be zealous, be active, according to your strength, speak for God wherever you are”
– John Wesley
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself”
– Luke 10:27
Posted in FW Robertson, tagged 1 John 3:7, A Word in Season, Character, FW Robertson, Life versus Religion, Quote for Today, Quote of the Day, Truth and Character on April 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
“Truth lies in character. Christ did not simply speak the truth; he was truth; truth, through and through; for truth is a thing not of words, but of life and being”
– Frederick W. Robertson
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous”
– 1 John 3:7
Posted in C.P. Thwing, tagged C.P. Thwing, deception, Fear of the Lord, He is our Salvation, Life in Christ only, Passivity Spiritual Death, Pursuing God, Repentance, self-satisfaction, Sins of Comission, Sins of Omission, spiritual death, Workless Faith on April 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
“One cause of spiritual death is self-satisfaction. A traveler lost on the prairie, with the snow falling fast and thick, with his blood coursing slowly, feels that sense of ease which the opium-eater knows. He lies down in the soft white drifts. They make an easy bed. His friends find him and try to arouse him. He would rather be left undisturbed. His self-satisfaction works his death. King George III. was satisfied with his government of the American colonies; he therefore refused to remedy its abuses, and his satisfaction cost him these colonies. Upon all who are satisfied with their standing before God the chill of spiritual death has begun to rest. They can no more draw spiritual life from themselves, than one can feed his body by sucking blood from its veins. Therefore, satisfied with their relation to God, they do not strive to gain life from Him who is the source of the life spiritual, as He is of the life physical. Their self-satisfaction works the ruin of their souls
But more frequently than by self-satisfaction is the spiritual life killed by the indulgence of some sin. Many a man has felt he could surrender his entire property to God; but when the temptation arose of making a hundred dollars by a trick of the trade, he has chosen to be dishonest. But the sin may not be one of commission. It may consist in the omission of some duty. It may consist in the refusal of some means of grace. It may consist in the preference of doing nothing to advance God’s cause. Such sins of omission deaden the spiritual life. But in general the sin consists in the choice of some other good than the good which the Christian life affords.”
C.P. Thwing
Posted in E.M. Bounds, tagged 1 Corinthians 2:5, E.M. Bounds, Falsity in the Church, Religious Deception, the Church of God, The church of men, The Way of Religion, Truth versus Religion on April 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »
“Another scheme of Satan is to eliminate from the church all the humble, self-denying ordinances that are offensive to unsanctified tastes and unregenerate hearts. He seeks to reduce the church to a mere human institution—popular, natural, fleshly, and pleasing.”
– E.M. Bounds
“That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men,
but in the power of God”
1 Corinthians 2:5
