Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.
From Ezekiel 36:26: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
David Wilkerson (1931-2011) was an American evangelist, Christian author, and pastor.
Make your church grow: some assembly required.
From 1 Corinthians 3:9: “For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
Witnessing
Empty tomb
Victory, Jesus lives
Hope’s darkness forever vanquished
Light
Impossible
Calvary’s cross
Crucifixion, death, burial
Meeting along Emmaus Road
Possible
Believing
Messiah’s Resurrection
Chains forever broken
Enemy’s false assurances shattered
Redemption
This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.
Obedience . . . is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
From Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “Return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey Him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today, then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.”
John Charles (J. C.) Ryle (1816-1900) was an Anglican bishop in the United Kingdom.
Stop and think. We’ve no clue as to what will happen one minute from now . . . But our invisible God in His providence, is continually, constantly, and confidently at work.
From Revelation 17:14: “They will wage war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with Him are called and chosen and faithful.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
God’s mill grinds slow, but sure.
From Psalm 39:7: “And now, O Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
George Herbert (1593-1633) was an English poet and priest.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
From Jeremiah 29:11: “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.”
Robert Collyer (1823-1912) was an English-born pastor. Early in his adult life, he emigrated to the United States and would later resuming preaching after having done so in England.
From Psalm 92:12-13: The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.”
Witnessing early morning’s light of peace
Feeling Father’s presence, always nearby
Descending tranquility, never cease
Wiping away tears from yesterday’s cry
Harvesting faith’s sustaining, living bread
Accepting Savior’s forgiveness, now freed
Receiving Father’s grace, hope shall be fed
Thriving with righteousness, sowing her seeds
Praying with thanks, praising Father most high
Sharing eternity’s light, nourished with love
Sending Spirit, among bluest of sky
Scaling merciful path, heavens above
Called to discipleship, with Jesus Christ
Purchased at Calvary, blood sacrificed
From Psalm 92:1-2: “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High, to declare Your steadfast love in the morning and Your faithfulness by night.”
God resides in our hearts, steering us toward an ever-fixed mark.
From Proverbs 16:9: “The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s burden, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
From John 1:14: “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.”
William Carey Jones (1855-1927) was an American Congressman from the state of Washington.
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