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Getting Fed?
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"Some of the best communicators of the
Scriptures who I know have had people leave their churches for the express
reason that they're not being fed. I know that we are the sheep of God,
and sheep require the Shepherd to feed them, but there must come a time
when we become shepherds who feed others.
Is it really all about us being fed? I
think it might be important to remember that over 60 percent of Amercians
are overweight or even obese. Is it possible that this is also true in
the arena of personal spirituality? Are we too much about us getting fed
and too little about us exercising our faith?"
Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force, 31.
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness;
nothing so gentle as real strength."
--St. Francis de Sales--
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"Gentleness springs from great strength."
--R.E. Phillips--
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God
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"What comes into our minds when we
think about God is the most important thing about us." A.W. Tozer
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"God wants our attention and He knows
how to get it." --James Earl Massey--
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"We spend out entire lives acting
out our concept of God." --Jack Taylor--
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"I want to know God's thoughts, the
rest are details." --Albert Einstein--
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God: His Timing
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"God never hurries. There are no deadlines
against which he must work." A.W. Tozer
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God's Will
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"A man has very often to decide between
one good thing and another." --George MacDonald (spoken by the character
Malcolm in The Marquis' Secret)--
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"If only the next step is clear, then
the one thing to do is take it! Don't pledge your Lord or yourself
to any steps beyond what you know. You don't see them yet."
-- Amy Carmichael, Candles in the Dark,
41.
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"God delights to plan for His children.
No human father ever experienced such joy in planning for his child as
god experiences as He plans for you. He does not want you to miss
any part of His beautiful purpose for you. His plans are filled with
details of blessing, joy, and wonderful surprises. David said, 'The things
you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell
of them, they would be too many to declare'" -- Wesley Duewel, Let
God Guide You Daily, 16. --
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Good News
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"God is most glorified when we are
most satisfied in Him." --John Piper--
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Goodness
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"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
As long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley --
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Gossip
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"If you haven't go anything nice to
say about anybody, come sit next to me."
--Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
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Grace
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"Here is a revelation bright as the
evening star: Jesus comes for sinners, for those as outcast as tax collectors
and for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. He comes
for corporate executives, street people, superstars, farmers, hookers,
addicts, IRS agents, AIDS victims, and even used car salesman. Jesus not
only talks with these people but dines with them--fully aware that his
table fellowship with sinners will raise the eyes of the religious bureaucrats
who hold up the robes and insignia of their authority to justify their
condemnation of the truth and their rejection of the Gospel of Grace."
--Brennan Manning,
The Ragamuffin Gospel, p. 20--
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Grace is love that cares and stoops
and rescues." -- John R. W. Stott --
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"Perhaps the larger reason why we do not
experience more of God's grace is our misconception that, having been saved
by grace, we must now, at least to some degree, "pay our own way" and earn
God's blessings in our daily lives. An accepted maxim among people today,
"There is no such thing as a free lunch" (which may be true in our society),
is carried by us into our relationship with God."
--Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace,
59--
"Perhaps the most difficult task for us
to perform is to rely on God's grace and God's grace alone for our salvation.
It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people--for
beggars. We don't want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We like to
think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there."
R. C. Sproul, "Suffering and Merit?"
Tabletalk magazine, vol 13. no.1, Feb.
89, pg 5.
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Gratitude
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"God is not glorified if the foundation
of our gratitude is the worth of the gift and not the excellency of the
Giver. If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the
gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart
to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts
will be the echo of our joy in the excellence of the Giver!"
John Piper, A Godward Life, 214
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Greatness
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"The great of the kingdom have been
those who loved God more than others did."
-- A.W. Tozer --
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Guidance
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"Too often we want a roadmap to the
future rather than a relationship with the Way."
-- Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God Day
by Day, 118 --
"Sometimes God will lead you to do things
you will not fully understand until after you have done them. He does not
usually reveal all the details of His will when he first speaks to you.
Instead he tells you enough so you can implement what he has said, but
witholds enough information so that you must continue to rely upon His
guidance."
-- Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God
Day by Day, 81. --
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"'I will guide thee with mine eye'--
a glance, not a blow--a look of directing love that at once heartens to
duty, and tells duty. We must be very near Him to catch that look,
and very much in sympathy with Him to understand it; but when we do, we
must be swift to obey."
-- Alexander Maclaren --
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"God always educates downs to the
scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the tiniest whisper of the Spirit
that I know what I should do?"
Oswald Chambers, (May 13)
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