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However, if somebody had not come along to encourage him, it might have been the end for him.
Never trust your heart when you are feeling discouraged or, for that matter, when you have just won a
great victory.
A discouraged heart always exaggerates everything. Do not trust a discouraged spirit, for it will never give you the true picture of you or your situation.
Every decision for the Lord has the right moment. To make that decision prematurely is often to miss the blessing of God.
Regardless of your victory or failure, your relationship with God does not change. You are no less dear to God when you are a failure than when you are successful.
God thinks the world of me. I am his child. Even though I make mistakes and stumble, I am still a child of the living God. He looks down on me with a bright smile of grace and mercy. I am the apple of His adoring eye.
Time alone with God, with an open Bible, can change a heart filled with defeat into a heart rejoicing in the unchangeable promises of God.
Win or lose, we are on God’s side; and if we keep away from sin and keep above it all and keep happy in God, we are winning whether we know it or not. We can be just as happy when we are not happy as we are when we are happy, because that is the prerogative of living the life of faith.
Superstition is not something to joke about. It is a specific defamation of the character of God. Superstition assumes, without knowing it, that God is weak and cannot control things.
Christian liberty is freedom to live in the Spirit, unhindered by externals.
Christian liberty is freedom to live in the Spirit and worship God in spirit and in truth.
Therefore, a Christian is in danger of allowing his very liberty to be a stumbling block to somebody else, so that he does freely things that other people will think he is sinning when he does; and thus he is a hindrance to other people.
There will always be a cloud warning you to stay indoors; the wise man will know which cloud to regard and which to disregard.
Idleness is un-Christlike—our Savior was a worker—and contrary to the high will of God, for it voids our commission to replenish the earth and subdue it, and it is an invitation to temptation.
In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
People who are engaged in some kind of productive activity may sin, but they are not as likely to as those who have nothing to do.
The idle Christian is in great danger, because he is unlike his Savior.
He picked simple men who were hard workers, who took an interest in life and had something to do. He did it deliberately and purposefully.
you be ready to do anything.
Start doing something now that you have wanted to do but put off.
I am positively sure that nervous breakdowns do not come from working in the easy yoke of Jesus Christ. They come from frustrations, hidden sins, stubbornness, refusing to hear God and wanting your own way; but they do not come from working. “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light
He was humble enough that he was willing to take care of a lawn—anything to look after the work of God and do something.
all because one man, newly converted, was willing to do anything for the Lord.
A wise Christian realizes that he is not to be extreme on anything, but he is to know the time and the season.
There is no time for idleness, because idleness assumes lack of purpose. If I have no purpose, I will be idle. Idleness assumes disinclination to be inconvenienced and it assumes addiction to pleasures.
It is possible that we are so busy in our secular work or even in the Lord’s work that we have no time to pray—no time to wait on God, or get still and knit up the raveled sleeve of care, or orient our souls toward God in heaven.
You will find that God looked for His men in the silence. Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk. It is only out of the silence that the Word speaks. In the beginning was silence, and then there was a word.
If you are too busy in the Lord’s work to spend time in the Lord’s presence, you are too busy in the Lord’s work.
We wait on God to renew our batteries, and then when they are up to full power, we turn them loose into the work of God.
“As soon they get some money, they begin to trust it. As soon as they begin to trust their money, they cease to be holy and spiritual, frugal, hardworking, honest, good, and so they backslide and so, here is the vicious circle. Get right with God and you become frugal, saving, honest, hardworking, serious. That is the path to get rich. When you get rich, you tend to backslide.” He said, “Here’s the vicious circle.
honest, holy, hardworking, frugal, saving, get all you can, then give it all away, and that way you’ll never backslide. Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
No, it is not God’s will that His people should all be poor. It is God’s will that His people should prosper but know what to do with prosperity.
1. Thank God reverently
2. Share it generously
3. Walk circumspectly
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Blessed is the man who possesses nothing. If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty. If we possess anything, we are cursed by it.
If God gave you possessions, thank God for them. But break with the grip of the world’s philosophies and make God everything. If God is everything to you, you can have anything else and it will not hurt you. If God is little or nothing to you, anything will hurt you.
You are a pilgrim, not a resident, here on earth.
God’s children are not resident birds, but are migratory birds, passing through from where they were to where they are going.
Remember, you have not done anything about truth until you have acted on it. If it is a statement, it is to be believed. If it is a command, it is to be obeyed. If you have not believed or obeyed, you have not done anything, and you have postponed your Christian life.
There is the outspoken unbelief, and there is the unbelief that is too cowardly to say, but the person never obeys, and therefore proves to be as bad a case of unbelief as the other.
If I believe, I will do something about it.
But if you want to drink deep of the fountains of God, you are going to have to spend some time in prayer, and you cannot put that off until tomorrow or the next day or the next day; you’re going to have to start now.
You can tell the power of a church by the number of people who attend the prayer meeting, no question about it.
Nothing keeps us away from work, but almost anything will keep us away from prayer meeting for the simple reason that we are looking for a dodge, a place to hide.
If you want to be holy—if you want to serve God—you have to give time to God. Grace and holiness take time, and the cultivation of the Spirit takes time.
you can serve the present generation.
There are people waiting for that kind deed, maybe not insistently asking for it, but they are waiting for it. You meant to lend your good heart, but you have not done it. You are falling into the trap of postponed living.
