Keepers of the Covenant Quotes

“It's easy to have faith when we get everything we want from God, everything we pray for. But when we don't, we have to decide if we want His will or our own. We can't manipulate God by a display of faith or by our actions. Only idols can be manipulated. God is sovereign, and He will do what He do what He wills, for His purpose. And those purposes are often hidden”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“As long as we have breath we can hope, can’t we?”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“We show our faith in God when we keep moving forward even when our prayers aren’t being answered. It’s the highest form of praise to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn’t seem that way.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“It was easy to rise up in faith and heroism when we faced a clear-cut enemy. Its much harder to resist the enemy of gradualism and assimilation, much harder to maintain a passion for God when we are bogged down in the daily routine of life”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“It’s the highest form of praise,” Abba had said, “to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn’t seem that way.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“You’re feeling the flames, Ezra, but that’s part of the process. This pot I just made won’t be useful for anything until it goes through that fire.” He pointed to the kiln, where waves of heat shimmered above it. “The pots baking in there right now would be useless if they didn’t endure the heat.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“Once the sacrifice has burned into ashes on the altar, your sin is nothing but ashes, as well. The Holy One forgives us—and we have to believe it in faith. That means leaving our past in the past, not agonizing over it, not bringing it to life in your memory again and again. We must forget it the same way God does—‘As far as the east is from the west.’ That’s how far in the past our sins will be.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“experience the Holy One in our own lives. God’s plan is often hidden from us in such a way that we can’t see what He’s doing. We may feel abandoned by Him and wonder what He is doing and why He has left us all alone. But of course He isn’t ‘missing’ at all, just as He isn’t really missing in Esther’s story. He’s always right beside us, only a prayer away, working out events for our salvation. He wants us to trust Him in faith, even when we can’t see or understand what He is doing.” “I remember how abandoned we felt when we first heard Haman’s decree,” Devorah said. “No one could understand why He allowed evil to win.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“God performed miracles for our ancestors, Jude. We both know the stories of how He parted the sea and brought water from a rock and gave us manna to eat in the desert. He made a covenant with us, promising to always be our God—and He’ll keep that promise. He will!” She was trying to convince herself as well as Jude. “I know things look bad right now, but we just need a little time to find a way out. Our armies have been outnumbered before, but God always came through for us and saved us.” “Not”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“But when we can look back on our past, no matter how painful it was, and see God at work, it gives us hope for the future.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“God doesn’t change, Devorah. Only our image of Him can change—and any image we create of an infinite God is an idol.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“We can’t manipulate God by a display of faith or by our actions. Only idols can be manipulated. God is sovereign, and He will do what He wills, for His purposes. And those purposes are often hidden from us.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“The question we have to ask, the question I ask myself is, will we allow grief and disappointment to erect a barricade between us and God? Or will we allow God to be the barricade, the shelter, between us and our sorrow?”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“Scripture references for Keepers of the Covenant: Ezra 7–10 Esther 1–10 Ruth 1–4 1 Samuel 15:1–35 Genesis 19:1–38; 36:1–12 Exodus 17:8–14; 28:1–42; 34:15–16 Numbers 1:47–53; 3:11–13; 8:5–26; 18:21; 25:1–15 Deuteronomy 25:5–10; 25:17–19 Joshua 2:1–22; 6:22–25 Judges 4–5 Matthew 1:5–6”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“The sacrifice will be very bloody, as you already know. Think of it as a taste of your own death as you watch. The animal dies, taking our place and showing us what we would deserve if God were to judge us. The sacrifice represents the death of our physical side and allows our spiritual nature to draw closer to God. The Hebrew word for sacrifice is korban, and it comes from the root word meaning ‘to come near’ or ‘to approach.’ Our ability to draw close to God is what sets us apart from the animal kingdom. We raise ourselves above their level and dedicate ourselves to Him.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“It was easy to rise up in faith and heroism when we faced a clear-cut enemy. It’s much harder to resist the enemy of gradualism and assimilation, much harder to maintain a passion for God when we’re bogged down in the daily routine of life.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“As I just told Miriam, we’ll die a hundred times before the day finally comes if we give in to fear.”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant

“Her people could trust God no matter what. Even”
― Lynn Austin, Keepers of the Covenant