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"Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, Oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer." - Psalm 19:14
"Be merciful to those who doubt" Jude 22
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." - Eph 3:16-19
"I want to deliberately encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden qualities about our religious lives is a lack of our holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain."
"When the LORD divided Canaan among the tribes of Israel, Levi received no share of the land. God said to him simply, 'I am thy part and thine inheritance,' and by those words made him richer than all his brethren; richer than all the kings of the world. And there is a spiritual principle here, a principle for every priest of the Most High God. The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One."
-- excerpts from THE PURSUIT OF GOD, A.W. Tozer
He bids me "Rise up," and well he may; for I have long enough been lying among the pots of worldliness. He is risen, I am risen in him, why then should I cleave unto the dust? From lower loves, desires, pursuits, and aspirations, I would rise towards him....But Lord, how can a stone rise, how can a lump of clay come away from the horrible pit? O raise me, draw me. Thy grace can do it. Send forth thy Holy Spirit to kindle sacred flames of love in my heart, and I will continue to rise until I leave life and time behind me, and indeed come away.
-Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening, Morning April 25
"The gospel to me is simply irresistible." - Blaise Pascal
"When, because of your faith, your life too becomes perceptibly different; when your reactions are quite opposite to what the situation seems to call for and your activities can no longer be explained in terms of your personality; that is when your neighbors will sit up and take notice. In the eyes of the world, it is not our relationship with Jesus Christ that counts; it is our resemblance to Him!"
-- excerpt from THE QUEEN AND I: STUDIES IN ESTHER, Ray Stedman
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee." - St Augustine
"Love lies at the very core of God's nature. In fact, when John summed up the substance of God, he did so in a very simple statement: 'God is love.'" "When that love touches you, you will discover there is nothing more powerful in the entire universe. It is more powerful than your failures, your sins, your disappointments, your dreams, and even your fears. God knows when you tap the depths of his love, your life will forever be changed." "John said it best. 'We love because he first loved us' (1 John 4: 19)." "That's why it is so critcal to understand Jesus' death on the cross as an act of love for you." "The doorway into the Father's love begins at the cross. Seeing what Father and Son accomplished together in that climactic moment defines love in a way that you can experience only in him." "Let's go to Golgotha and watch the most incredible plan ever devised unfold in all its glory."
-- excerpts from HE LOVES ME, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE FATHER'S AFFECTION, Wayne Jacobsen (2007), pg 78, 82, 83.
Peace to all!
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