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The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one degree, and did not open any fount of grace or mercy in His heart. He had loved us from eternity, and needed nothing to stimulate that love. The cross is not responsible for God’s love; rather it was His love which conceived the cross as the one method by which we could be saved.
-A.W. Tozer
We would have been satisfied if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of His bounty beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by halves. He makes us sit with Him and share the feast. Had Jesus given us some small pension from His royal chambers, we would have had cause to love Him eternally. But no, He wants His bride to be as rich as Himself. He will not have a glory or a grace in which she will not share. He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with Himself, so that we might have equal possessions. -C. H. Spurgeon
All I have is yours; I have given it to you in Christ. All the Holy Spirit’s power and wisdom, all the riches of Christ, all the love of the Father; there is nothing that I have that is not yours. I am God, and I love you. –Andrew Murray
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. 1 John 4:16
We are His beloved. Let us but feel that He has set His love upon us, that He is watching us from those heavens with tender interest, that He is working out the mystery of our lives with solicitude and fondness, that He is following us day by day as a mother follows her babe in his first attempt to walk alone, that He has set His love upon us, and, in spite of ourselves, is working out for us His highest will and blessing, as far as we will let Him, and then nothing can discourage us.
-A.B. Simpson
Jesus is king for us, priest for us, and prophet for us. Whenever we read a new title for our Redeemer, let us appropriate Him as ours in that name also. He is the Shepherd, the Captain, the Prince, and the Prophet. Jesus has no dignity which He will not employ for our exaltation and no prerogative which He will not exercise for our defense. His fullness in the Godhead is our unfailing, inexhaustible treasure house. All His thoughts, emotions, actions, utterances, miracles, and intercessions were for us. He trod the road of sorrow on our behalf and has given us as His heavenly legacy the full results of all the labors of His life. –C.H. Spurgeon
His command is the sure guarantee that He will give what He desires us to possess.
-Andrew Murray
God is above all things, beneath all things, outside of all things and inside of all things. God is above, but He’s not pushed up. He’s beneath, but He’s not pressed down. He’s outside, but He’s not excluded. He’s inside, but He’s not confined. God is above all things presiding, beneath all things sustaining, outside of all things embracing and inside all things filling. That is the immanence of God. -A.W. Tozer
‘Tis the sound of Jesus that rings softly in my ears
‘Tis the sound of Jesus that rings loudly in my heart
‘Tis the sound of Jesus that brings me to His feet
‘Tis the sound of Jesus that beckons me to His further paths
‘Tis the sound of Jesus that I know makes me sing
Oh I sing the song of Jesus, ringing me , bringing me, beckoning me to higher praise.
‘Tis the softness of His voice, my forever dance.
-Lydia Nast
There is a sweet joy in feeling that He knows all, and notwithstanding loves us still. -J. Hudson Taylor
Lord, take control of this day, whatever you
want is what I want to do—I may not understand it
but I want you to tell me what you want of me.
This day I am turning over to you my thoughts, my
plans, my family, my work—everything.
His timing is always perfect, precise, and exact.
He is always on time. He may change our schedules
because our schedules don’t match up to His—His
thoughts and ways are higher than ours. When
He makes changes, sometimes we feel like the rug’s
been pulled out from underneath us, but that’s okay
because we are to live in the Spirit. It’s an exciting
life…when you are living in the Spirit, God can do
anything He wants at any moment of our day.
-Beverly Lessin
There is some plan for each day's work, which He will unfold to us if only we will look up to Him to do so; some mission to fulfill, some ministry to perform, some lesson patiently to learn, that we may be able to reach others. As to our plans we need not be anxious, because He who sends us forth is reponsible to make the plan according to His infinite wisdom, and to reveal it to us.
-F.B. Meyer
Continue your service under all changes. Continue in your calling as the Lord's servant until He suddenly appears in His glory.
-C.H. Spurgeon
The rain of His grace is always dropping; the river of His bounty is ever flowing; the well-spring of His love is constantly overflowing. Daily His branches bend down to our hand with a fresh store of mercy. Who can know the number of His benefits or recount the list of His bounties? The countless stars are like the standard bearers of a more innumerable host of blessings. Oh, that my praise would be as ceaseless as His bounty! -C. H. Spurgeon
God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work. -G. Campbell Morgan
Consider how great things He has done for you. 1 Samuel 12:24
Look back on all the way the Lord your God has led you. Do you not see it dotted with ten thousand blessings in disguise? Call to mind the needed relief sent at the critical moment; the right way chosen for you instead of the wrong way you had chosen for yourself; the hurtful thing to which your heart so fondly clung, removed out of your path; the breathing-time granted, which your tried and struggling spirit just at the moment needed. Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side when you knew it not? Has not Infinite Love encircled every cloud with its merciful lining? Oh, retrace your steps, and mark His footprints in each one! Thank Him for them all, and learn the needed lesson of leaning more simply on Jesus. –F. Whitfield
God is the one who will fulfill His purpose for me. – A. W. Tozer
God is over all things, under all things, outside all things; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below, but not depressed; wholly above presiding, wholly beneath sustaining, wholly without embracing, and wholly within filling. –author unknown.
You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. Psalm 145:16
It is much that He should satisfy the need, the want; but He goes far beyond that. Pity is moved to meet our need; duty may sometimes look after our wants; but to satisfy the desire implies a tender watchfulness, a sweet and gracious knowledge of us, an eagerness of blessing. God is never satisfied until He has satisfied our desires. –Mark Guy Pearse
God chooses the weak things and the despised. Paul seems almost at a loss to know how to define the things, so weak and despicable in men’s eyes, that God elects to use. In a telling phrase he sums them up as the “the things which are not.” I Corinthians 1:28.
Do you fall in that category? Do not despair. Far from being at a disadvantage as compared with others, you may in fact have the edge over them. For at least you are already at zero, and have not a long way still to go to reach God’s starting point! –Watchman Nee
I trust this quote from C.H. Spurgeon will encourage you today...
Oh, child of suffering, be patient. God has not passed you over in His providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows will also furnish you with what you need. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble. There is One who cares for you. His eye is fixed on you, His heart beats with pity for your woe, and His omnipotent hand will bring you the needed help.
The darkest cloud will scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom will give place to the morning. He, if you are one of His family, will bind up your wounds and heal your broken heart. Do not doubt His grace because of your tribulation, but believe that He loves you as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness.
With a little oil in the cruse and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same.
–C. H. Spurgeon
A spiritual secret is to learn contentment with the things God doesn’t explain to us. –Amy Carmichael
How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none. Eternal years lie in His heart. For Him time does not pass, it remains; and those who are in Christ share with Him all the riches of limitless time and endless years. God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirit and relax our nerves.
–A.W. Tozer
Our Christian life today is a foretaste of the heavenly banquet still to come; for God has “made us to sit down with Him” who first was seated by mighty power in the heavenly places far above all (Ephesians 1:20; 2:6). This means that the work of salvation is not ours but His. It is not that we work for God but that He has worked for us. God gives us our position of rest. He brings His Son’s finished work and presents it to us, and then He says to us, “Please sit.”
His offer of salvation cannot, I think, be better expressed than in the words of invitation to the great feast in the parable: “Come; for all things are now ready.”
-Watchman Nee
You are His…by conquest. What a battle He had in us before we were won! How long He laid siege to our walls against Him. But we have become the conquered captives of His omnipotent love. Thus chosen, purchased, and subdued, the rights of our divine Possessor are inalienable.
-C.H. Spurgeon
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