It's hard to stumble when you're on your knees.
Meet my need, not my greed.
It's all right to have money as long as money doesn't have you.
Tough times don't last; tough people do.
Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others.
God assumes full responsibility for the life committed to Him.
If someone has no smile, give him one of yours!
Reading the Bible keeps us from sin, but sin keeps us from reading the Bible.
The love principle is stronger than the force principle. - Author Unknown
A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. - John Gray
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - R.W. Emerson
Oh, the labour and strength that was lost in building that bridge that was never crossed. - Author Unknown
Do not reckon yourself better than others lest, perhaps, in the eyes of God you are considered worse. - Author Unknown
The snake of Genesis turns into the Dragon in Revelation - somebody has been feeding him! - Dr. Trulin
To fear the Lord is to hate evil. - Prov. 8:13
If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house. - Prov. 17:18
Without food, a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down. - Prov. 26:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil! - Isa. 5:20
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. - Prov. 22:1
I do not judge the Bible; I let it judge me.
He who loves money will never have enough. - Ecc. 5:10
No man can serve two masters, God and money. For you will hate one and love the other, or else the other way around. - Matt. 7:24 LB
I am human enough to want everyone to like me, but smart enough to know that not everyone will.
Do not trust too much in your own judgment, but be willing to hear what others have to say.
We would have others perfect, yet we do not mend our own faults. - Luke 6:41-42
Man can kill millions, but only God can raise the dead.
Jesus became what we are so we could become what He is.
Woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam, not made out of his head to top him, not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. - Matthew Henry
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Alexander Pope
Build your faith on the power of God, not on doctrine.
As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - C.H. Spurgeon
We don't need blessing, we are blessed to death. What we need is to come to the Giver of the blessing.
You can blame it on your Momma, but you are accountable to the Almighty God.
Satan's work in Christians is a good moral life, but a wasted one.
How close can you get to God? It depends on how far you are willing to go for Him.
Life does not begin at 40; it begins at Calvary. - Trulin
Humility, the willingness to remove all pretense and be oneself, is the secret of our peace.
Sin is like a smelly skunk. It is easier to get rid of the sin than the stench of its guilt.
I don't reject Jesus because of Judas, nor do I reject Jesus because of churches!
The darker the night, the brighter the stars.
Today people seek demon possession voluntarily. They call it channeling.
The Bread of Communion represents the WORD of our testimony of the BLOOD of the Lamb. The Bread is the Word and the Wine is Jesus' Blood - the necessary elements to be an overcomer. - Rev. 12:11
Jesus died to free me from the false notions that my worth depends on the opinions of others. My worth depends on Jesus' opinion of me.
It would be wonderful if, when I lose my temper, I never find it again.
Many of us refuse to grow where we are put, consequently we grow nowhere.
When we serve Jesus in a spirit that is not His, our words are right, but our spirit is wrong.
The heart is a Garden of Eden where Jesus desires to walk.
The new birth is the Christian circumcision to obtain entrance into God's family.
God's wrath against sin angers the self-righteous heart.
Because man's heart is evil, he will neither work for God (law) nor will he rest in the "Sabbath rest" of Christian freedom from the law (grace).
The Sunday School teacher was explaining to his class of eight- year-old boys that they need not be fearful. "Remember, Jesus is with you everyday. He is with you everywhere. There is no place you can be without Him." Robbie exclaimed: "I know someplace where He isn't!" The surprised teacher asked, "Where is that?" Robbie declared, "In the grave."
Under the covenant of works, God stands still to see what man can do. Under Covenant of grace, man stands still to see what God can do.
The divine Word is carried into the soul by the divine Spirit.
The devil tries to make us grovel on our bellies just like he does.
I am well aware of the devil's works but I am not impressed with them.
Build your faith on the power of God, not on doctrine. Faith cannot be built on that which can change.
Jesus slept in the storm. If they had known who He really was, they would have taken a nap with Him.
"Don't look to the bigness of your task; look to the bigness of your God".
If we look at our circumstances instead of Jesus, the devil will use our circumstances to accuse God.
Ministry is an outward manifestation of an inner life.
Many churches know more and more about less and less.
God does not manifest his glory through intelligence.
It is a lot easier to DO than to BE.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit gives us power and new insights into the Word of God.
When you decide to give someone a piece of your mind, be sure you have the mind of Christ.
When we don't want to come to Jesus, we follow an anointed man.
When we sin, we make a conscious decision to do so.
Prayer isn't something we do when we have a problem, it is rather something we do when we don't have a problem, so that when we do have a problem, we know what to do. - Author Unknown.
Don't worry about tomorrow; tomorrow belongs to God.
I am not concerned whether God is on my side, my great concern is to be on God's side.
We can't prove God exists by human wisdom, but He reveals himself by His Spirit.
Our faith is not to make things happen, but belief regardless of what happens!
Jesus didn't say "Avoid the Pharisees"; He said "Avoid the leaven of the Pharisees."
The power of love can't operate where there is love of power.
We are not to worship the Bible, but the One who wrote it.
The key to leadership is bent knees, wet eyes and a broken heart. - Olford
If we hold "things" tightly, God has to pry our fingers away, and that hurts. - Corrie ten Boom
It is not how much Spirit you get, but how much of you the Sprits gets.
Sin is Satan's garbage.
If you think you know many things and understand them, remember that the things you do not know are many more than those you do know.
To think nothing of one's self and always to think well and highly of others is great wisdom.
A humble knowledge of yourself is a surer way to God than profound scientific research.
Fret not, He loves you (John 13:1)
Faint not, He holds you (Psa.139:10)
Fear not, He keeps you (Psa.121:5)
Those who advocate human rights demand the right to do what's wrong.
Faith that is born of God overcomes the world; the faith that is born of reason is overcome by the world.
Pharisees say "Take the yoke of the law". Jesus says "Take my yoke".
Don't judge the Pharisee but judge the Pharisee in yourself.
You can't put your sins behind you until you're ready to face them.
No prayer in the world can save us; only Jesus can!
You don't put live chicks under a dead hen, neither do you put a live Christian in a dead church!
Satan drew a circle that shut me out, heretic rebel a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win; we drew a circle that took him in.
We need to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit, because most of us leak through the mouth.
Those who belong to Christ have nailed their natural evil desires to His cross and crucified them there.
Jesus didn't marry. That is because He is returning for His Bride, the Christian Church.
If the devil tries to talk, write it on the bottom of your shoe.
The dead cannot praise God. A dead church cannot praise God either.
Just about the time you decide that the world is so bad nothing can be done about it, some stranger stops his car and lets you into the traffic.
We are no longer married to the Law but are wedded to the risen Christ. - Rom 7:4
God's Word is medicine and it is good to double the dose. Most medicines kill if you take too much, but the more of this you take the better you feel.
I accept Christ's death on the cross as a substitute for mine.
There are 5 billion people in the world, therefore 10 billion thumbs. None of them have the exact same design. Only God could create so many designs on a surface the size of a thumb.
When the OUTLOOK is bad, try the UPLOOK.
If you are thinking to do a mean thing, wait until tomorrow. If a good thing, do it today.
The only way to settle a disagreement is on the basis of what is right--not who is right.
The Lord sometimes takes us into troubled waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.
If Christians do not "come apart and rest awhile," they may just plain come apart.
The last citadel which we are willing to give to God is our secret trust of ourselves. God has to put us in a box before we will surrender.
We can't have the life of Christ until we sacrifice ourselves on His cross.
The Bible is the heart of God poured through the hearts of men on to the written page.
Jesus is not a sun god, but a Son God.
God's kingdom does not consist of "good" people, but of those who know their need of God's grace and mercy because they have failed in the "goodness" test.
According to Psalm 14:1, the atheist's name is "fool" --"The fool has said in his heart there is no God."
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden.
I was hungry and you formed a committee to investigate my hunger. I was homeless and you filed a report of my plight. I was sick and you held a seminar of the situation of the under-privileged. You have investigated all aspects of my plight, and yet...I am still hungry, homeless and sick! - Author Unknown
Friendship: Oh, the comfort, the inexplicable comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but to pour them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing your friend, with the breath of kindness, will blow the chaff away. - George Elliot.
If we keep our eyes on the troubled waters, we will drown in them. Look up, or perish.
You can't hear God if you're not close enough.
Deception is when you are deceived and you don't know it.
We say "Prove it and I'll believe it;" God says: "Believe it and I'll prove it!"
We must allow Christ to be Lord of all or He is not Lord at all.
Happiness is internal. Don't be too anxious to change your outward circumstances but learn the secret of inner contentment.
I want to do things my way. Jesus wants me to do things His way.
Churches who remain true to the Christian faith and are uniting are causing the devil to dial 911.
Many try to get the hand of God to work on their behalf instead of seeking the will of God to work on His behalf.
Because Christians are engraved on the palm of the Lord's hand (Isa.49:16), they can't get off it.
Father God was the lawgiver in the Old Testament; the Holy Spirit is the Lawgiver in the New Testament.
We reason too much and trust God too little.
Satan is not through with us, but neither is God.
The devil gives religion; Jesus Christ gives salvation.
Unity based on compromise is not unity at all.
Jesus died on the cross for me so that I can be free from the misbelief that other people decide my value - (Backus/Chapian p.133 Telling Yourself the Truth).
If I only want what God gives me, I cannot get into a right relationship with Him.
God cannot be found by human wisdom; He reveals Himself by His Spirit.
Self-pity is the worst sin because it centres us on self instead of God.
When Jesus calls me and I say "I will go," it is my "I" that has to go.
We wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
You can't change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present worrying about the future.
No Jesus--no peace. Know Jesus--know peace.
If you were charged for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
No one can walk in the will of God and escape with his pride intact.--Peter Bakker
I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it.
"Let not your heart be troubled." Don't allow it. It is a command, and God will not do it for you.
Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances, but on our relationship to God himself. - Oswald Chambers
Sin is red-handed mutiny against God. - Oswald Chambers
When we iron a dress, we only iron until all the wrinkles are out. Then why do we iron, iron and iron after we repent and Jesus has removed our wrinkles?
The only thing I can give to God is my right to myself.
Pride is the deification of self - Oswald Chambers
We would rather work for God than believe in Him. - Oswald Chambers
Since Jesus has taken upon himself the sins of the world, I don't need to take them on.
If the Lord is trying to raise me up and I am putting myself down, then I am working against Him.
My history is not recorded in the book of life; only my name is recorded.
Jesus Christ is the Senior Pastor of every true Christian church.
We should not be seeking love of power, but power of love.
Only as self is broken can Jesus grow within us.
Jesus died for His sheep, now He lives for His sheep and He is going to return for His sheep.
Men hated Christ without a cause, and without a cause He loved them.
When I feel small I make God big; when I feel big, I make God small.
When I feel hurt, I must not nurse it or rehearse it, but curse it!
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
The last fear to go is the fear of failure because we trust ourselves instead of God.
If the believer does not kill sin, it will kill him.
The unbelief which rejects the Bible by no means nullifies the truth written by its Divine Author.
No person, however upright or moral, can procure by notorious effort a righteousness that God will accept.
God loves us as we are, but loves us too much to leave us where we are. - Billy Graham
There is only on thing God can't do. He can't fail!
Fear of the Lord is good. Any other fear is destructive.
If God can't break our will to make it His will, then we are worshipping the God of self instead of God.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one.
Good works are the fruit, not the root, of our relationship with Jesus.
We are not to judge, but we can be fruit inspectors. - David Mainse
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
In every desert of calamity, there is an oasis of comfort.
Time may wrinkle the brow but should never weary the spirit.
When tempted, the Lord votes for you, the devil votes against you, but you have the deciding vote.
To be born again is to have our eyes opened so that we can see God's purposes.
Happiness comes not by having what we want, but wanting what we have.
I want to do things my way; God wants me to do things His way.
Satan's native religion is lying.
The Sadducees get angry when healing goes on. - Acts 5:17-18
To grow tall spiritually, we must first learn to kneel.
To rebel against God is to throw away the key and then scream "The door is shut!"
Sermonette: The greatest miracle God can perform today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make that man holy and put him back into the unholy world and keep him holy in it.
God is a heart specialist who heals broken hearts. Healing occurs when he mends the break between me and Jesus.
If we shine with our own light, we draw others to ourselves; if we shine with the light of Jesus, we draw others to Him.
Just one little sin--what harm can it do? But give it free reign and then there are two!
Sorrows are often like clouds which, though black when they are passing over us, when past become as if they were the garments of God, thrown off in purple and gold along the sky. - H.W. Beecker
Forgiveness is letting God be the Judge instead of us.
Knowledge puffs up; love builds up.
When we pray amiss, we may get what we want but not what we need.
Jesus wiped out the handwriting of requirements and nailed it to the cross.
We mutter and sputter, we fume and we spurt
We mumble and grumble, our feelings get hurt.
We can't understand things, our vision grows dim
When all that we need is a moment with Him. -
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man, but the man to fit the robe.
Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.
Jesus told us to tell everybody, but many of us don't tell anybody.
I am saved, not by what I did, but by what Jesus did.
Much knowledge makes swelled heads, but the Word of God makes enlarged hearts.
Words reveal invisible thoughts; Jesus as the Word of God, reveals the invisible God.
Sometimes it is not a power encounter we need, but a truth encounter.
Those who advocate human rights often demand the right to do what's wrong!
Teamwork: There were four people named Somebody, Everybody, Nobody and Anybody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody or Anybody would do it, so Nobody did it!
God became a Son of Man so that sons of man could become sons of God.
Some "witnessing" is spiritual mugging.
It isn't what you have in your wallet that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.
Our churches are filled with people who know about Jesus, but do not know Him. - Dr. Trulin
A budget is an attempt to live below your yearnings.
A genuine Christian is like a good watch; he has an open face, has busy hands, is made of pure gold, is well regulated and is full of good works.
When you are sleeping, God is still on the job.
Love is a genuine concern for others at one's own expense; lust is lack of concern for others at their expense.
Religion is dead and burdensome until we find the life-giving Jesus.
The Holy Spirit has jumped over denominational fences and is breaking the bars.
Jesus Christ was born of the Spirit, and so were we.
The blood of Jesus cleanses us from sin and brings us into the paradise of God.
Egypt is behind us, the Promised land is before us. If we look back we murmur, but if we look ahead we see God's glory.
Heathen atonement is man propitiating an angry god, but Christian atonement is a God of love making propitiation on behalf of sinful man.
The Red Sea typifies death to sin (separation from Egypt); the Jordan typifies death to self (separation from the wilderness).
A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
A family altar can alter a family.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
Come on into Church for a faith lift!
Be ye fishers of men. You catch them and He will clean them.
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Do your best and then sleep in peace. God is awake.
Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.
Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord!
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
Give God what's right, not what's left!
Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
God doesn't want shares of your life; He wants controlling interest!
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
Having truth decay? Brush up on your Bible!
He who angers you, controls you!
He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He who kneels before God can stand before anyone!
If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!
In the sentence of life the Devil may be a comma, but DO NOT let him be the PERIOD!
Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
Man's way leads to a hopeless end! God's way leads to an endless hope!
Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.
Never give the devil a ride - he will always want to drive! Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. "Pray" is a four letter word that you can say anywhere (except in a public school). Prayer - Don't give God instructions - just report for duty! The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you. This Church is "Prayer Conditioned"! To be almost saved is to be totally lost. wARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning! Watch your step carefully! Everyone else does! We don't change the message, the message changes us. We set the sail; God makes the wind. We're too blessed to be depressed. When God ordains, He sustains. Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say. 2) Not saying it. Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed. You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
© 1999, Doreen Palmer