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.

Great Quotes

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

There is One Who Cares for You

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

Contentment

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

A Few Quotes

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

The Palms of His Hands

See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Isaiah 49:16

When God looks at the palms of His hands what does He see? He sees you!

Let the following words from C.H. Spurgeon encourage you today…

God keeps His promise a thousand times, but the trial makes us doubt Him. He never fails. He is never a dry well. Yet, we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears as if our God were the mirage of the desert…you are written on the palms of His hands. It does not say, “your name.” The name is there, but that is not all: I have inscribed you.” Absorb the fullness of this! Everything about you and all that concerns you have I put there. Will you ever say again that your God has forsaken you, since He has inscribed you on His own palms?

Growth

It is said that a mother found her small boy standing beside a tall sunflower, with his feet stuck in the ground. When she asked, “What are you doing?” he naively answered, “Why, I am trying to grow to be a man.”

His mother laughed heartily at the idea of his being planted in the ground in order to grow like the sunflower. Then, patting him gently on the head, she said, “Why, Harry, that is not the way to grow. You can never grow bigger by trying. Just come right in and eat enough good food and have plenty of play and you will soon grow to be a man without trying so hard.”

Harry’s mother was right. There could not be a better answer to the question: “How do the lilies grow?” than Hannah Whitehall Smith’s comment, “They grow without trying.”

We live continually on His life, being nourished, fed and constantly filled with His Spirit and presence and all the fullness of His imparted life.
-A.B. Simpson

A Few Quotes

Let me tell you what real surrender is. It is simply resting in the love of God, as a little baby rests in its mother’s arms. –Fenelon

We are not often called to great sacrifice, but daily we are presented with the chance to make small ones—a chance to make someone cheerful, a chance to do some small thing to make someone comfortable or contented, a chance to lay down our petty preferences or cherished plans. This requires us to relinquish something—our own convenience or comfort, our won free evening, our warm
fireside, or even our habitual shyness, reserve or pride. –Elisabeth Elliot