The Bible begins with a marriage before sin came to the world and closes with a marriage after sin is removed forever.
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
To walk toward Jesus is to find peace, to walk away from Him is to find fear and anxiety.
Miriam sang the first song in the Bible when the enemy lay dead, the last song is in Revelation 19 when all God's enemies are defeated.
We are to live holy lives--not for our redemption but because of our redemption.
The blood of Jesus is our white robe of righteousness, our armour of light!
Will you have the oil of the Holy Spirit in the lamp of your heart when Jesus returns?
Aaron wore the breastplate of judgment but Christians wear the breastplate of righteousness.
Peace is lack of fear.
Because Jesus Christ lives IN us, we are His body, His Bride.
Have you noticed that all battles in the Bible are fought in valleys, and all revelations are given on hilltops.
He calls us brothers but we call Him Lord.
Division is no longer between denominations, but between those who are willing to learn and those who know it all.
The arm of the Lord is Jesus Christ.
The Bible is a map from earth to glory.
Fear comes from guilt. We, like Adam and Eve, try to cover it but only Jesus can take it away.
Pharisees say, "Pay the price," Jesus says "The price is paid."
Some people go from trial to trial instead of from glory to glory, from program to program instead of from revelation to revelation.
Let nothing master me but the Master.
Once we drink of the wine from the true Vine, the Tree of Life, all earth's attempts to quench our thirst will fail. - Author Unknown.
In Genesis, Satan is exposed, in Revelation he is deposed.
The devil comes to kill, steal and destroy--kill your joy, steal your peace and destroy your purpose.
Prayer is a watch-tower in the wilderness.
Do your best; pray God the rest.
Man shakes his fist at Almighty God and makes his own laws.
Deception is a lie wrapped up in the truth.
If we don't let God use us, Satan will use us, misuse us and abuse us.
The devil always tells me the opposite of what God is telling me. -(Author of Confusion)
The devil doesn't fight us if we are going in the same direction as him. -
The devil uses psychological warfare to disarm us. Prayer is a surprise attack on him.
Christian armour is the applied Word of God.
What I do is the overflow of what I am.
Jesus paid a debt He didn't owe because we had a debt we couldn't pay.
Man worships at the shrine of intellectualism and humanism.
If we pray to get answers, we will become angry with God.
Jesus didn't teach self-realization, but Christ-realization.
See sin as God sees it; hate it as God hates it, and deal with it before Satan uses it.
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
When the devil reminds you of your past, you just remind him of his future.
We didn't have to pay for the cost of our redemption because we had nothing to pay it with in the first place anyway.
God will always test what we possess to see how tightly we will hold onto it.
Jesus did not save us to run to every blessing bar until He comes; He saved us to tell others about Him.
Jesus can't heal my broken heart until I give it to him to mend; He heals it by the righteousness He provided at Calvary.
Just as Aaron placed God's altar in front of the golden calf, religious leaders today lead people into worship of self (humanism), but do it in the name of God.
Those who are flippant and familiar with God have not been introduced to the God of holiness, Jesus Christ.
Mercy is when we don't get what we deserve. Grace is when we get what we don't deserve.
I want to be an intercessor, not an accuser. I want to be like Jesus Christ, not like the devil.
When a man of God fails, nothing of God fails.
Wilderness experience is preparation time.
I can cast off my sin and guilt as a dirty garment and put on a clean white robe of Jesus' righteousness provided at Calvary.
Choices have consequences.
I am not my sanctifier, Jesus is.
We become meek only as we realize we are dust fused to God's glory.
When we try to help God without His direction, we birth an Ishmael.
I no longer look to human knowledge--that tree is forbidden. - Gen.3:1-6
Sin in the Garden of Eden caused man to fall from God-consciousness to self-consciousness.
I have a built-in communication system between me and the Christ in me. It is called speaking in tongues.
Don't give up, and don't give up trying.
It is a prayer of religion to ask for love and peace; we must ask for His presence because He is Love and He is Peace.
Four things God doesn't know:
1.Doesn't know one sin he doesn't hate
2.Doesn't know one sinner he doesn't love
3.Doesn't know a salvation other than Jesus Christ
4.Doesn't know a salvation that can't happen now.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you a car.
Christians should be a sign-post to direct people in the way of Christ.
Christ is the image of the invisible God.
Pharisees zip up mouths.
A choice: the rapture, or martyrdom.
Science says we must experience to believe. Christianity says we must believe to experience.
The cross of Jesus is a sign post to show us the Way to Heaven.
Psychiatrists diagnose the problem but haven't got the answers; Christians have the answers but can't diagnose the problem. - David Mainse
The Bible is so simple that you need a theologian to misunderstand it!
Humility is not inferiority, neither is conviction condemnation.
The cross is where God's will crosses out my will.
Predestination: In Adam all are predestined to die; in Christ all are predestined to live.
The anointing of Love is the Fruit of Christian freedom.
I need Jesus, not for a self-improvement program but for a replacement program. I must replace self with Jesus.
If Jesus is the Rock, then I am a pebble.
Will you have the oil of the Holy Spirit in the lamp of your heart when Jesus returns?
Pride is like a live electrical wire which, if we grab it, it kills.
Christ is a gateway to the kingdom of heaven.
Pride--the desire to be like God--is the greatest evil and source of all sin.
When you have a touch of Jesus' blood on your life, you become part of the blood-washed church of Jesus Christ.
Pride seeks only itself, humility seeks the good of others.
Where doctrine is present without love, it is a legalism; where love is present without doctrine, it is humanism. - Dr. Jeremiah
I must be sharpened by the Word of God so He can use me.
Don't be afraid of persecution - you are not above Jesus.
The Bible is the TRUTH. If I don't read it, I listen to the devil's lies.
God's grace is for the person who acknowledges he is a sinner; but God's judgment must deal with rebellion.
As a child becomes frightened when he strays from his father's house, we too become frightened when we stray from the Father's house of prayer.
Many today worship the god of blessings rather than the true God.
Spiritual exhaustion comes not through sin, but by service doing what we think God wants us to do.
Worry is unbelief in disguise.
Religion says "DO". Jesus says "DONE".
Don't try to find yourself, it will only make you more miserable. Rather lose yourself in Jesus Christ. - Chuck Smith
Choice, not chance, determines what your life will be.
God is generous. The cross is a sign of addition.
No garment is more becoming to a Christian than the cloak of humility.
Every true Christian has three degrees, Born-Again (BA), Mightily Altered (MA), and Divinely Designed (DD).
Believe only half of what you hear, but be sure the half you believe isn't the wrong half.
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence.
He who is born of God is certain to resemble His Father.
If you want to walk with God, you must go God's way.
Where God's finger points, God's hand will always make the way.
We can preach only the Christ we live.
Religion is man's attempt to reach God. Christianity is God's attempt to reach man through Christ.
We do good works because we are saved, not in order to get saved.
Jesus says, "Send your prayer requests to me."
Working won't get us saved, but when Jesus saves us He gets us working.
Man's effort to make himself religiously acceptable to God is rebellion. - (p.910 Student Commentary, 4th Edition).
We have tried to bring the Bible down to human understanding instead of trying to bring our human understanding up to the Bible. - Dr.Cerullo
The true church of Jesus Christ is not an earthly organization, but a living organism.
Most of us don't flee temptation--we crawl away hoping it will overcome us. - Ron Hembree
Religion can't save you. The devil is religious and he goes to church every Sunday.
Your character is what God knows you to be. Your reputation is who people think you are.
Atonement of the Old Testament covers sin, atonement of the New Testament removes sin--cleansing internally, externally and eternally.
I am a small ship, unsinkable in the Living Water of Jesus Christ.
In the Old Testament the people carried a perfect lamb. In the New Testament the perfect Lamb carries the people.
To love is to receive a glimpse of Heaven. - Karen Sunde
Some with the name of Christian either need to change their name or change their actions.
I birth an Ishmael if I help or hurry God.
If you want to walk with God, you must go God's way.
Where God's finger points, God's hand will always make the way.
You cannot do the work of the flesh when you walk in the Spirit.
What you say about others tells more about you than it does about them.
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Pharaoh didn't want Moses and Aaron to take the Jews from their work. Neither does Satan want Jesus to give us freedom in Christ.
Jesus Christ is coming again, first for the saints, then with the saints.
I love Jesus not only for who He is, but for who I am when I am with Him.
Morning Prayer: So far today, Lord, I've done alright. I haven't gossiped, haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over-indulgent. I'm very thankful for that. But in a few minutes, Lord, I'm going to get out of bed. And from then on I'm probably going to need a lot more help.
All our personal sins of the flesh carry over into our churches.
God uses Satan as his intrument to create character and make us partakers of His holiness. --Job 1:12
It wasn't the nails which held Jesus on the Cross. It was the love of God.
I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?" and He held out His arms and said "This much." And died.
Overcoming is living in Spirit-filled power.
Not self-will, but self abandonment.
Jesus now lives in me as the risen Lord.
Sung in Hell: "I did it my way!"
If we seek unity we won't get it. If we seek God we will get unity.
Not the biggest church will take the city, but the church with the biggest heart.
Don't come to God with your shopping list; He wants you to come with your love for Him.
Some Christians act as if the 23rd Psalm read this way: The Lord is the sheep, I am the shepherd, and if I do not keep a tight hold on Him, He will run away. -- Hannah Whitall Smith.
The devil has always tried to deify man and humanize Christ.
The greatest lie the devil has ever got people to believe is that he doesn't exist.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfish things have been removed.
God covered his glory in the human skin of Jesus.
Send your prayer requests to Jesus; they will be answered if they agree with what He is praying.
Make the choice to follow Jesus, not only in your valleys of trouble, but also on your mountains of blessing when life seems easy.
The cross of Jesus Christ is a symbol of His love and a symbol of His death. do you love him enough to cross out your own selfish plans and ambitions and die to self?
The noise of the animals for the Old Testament sacrifices sound a lot
like the moans of self-pity of some Christians today.
"It seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work...if we are qualified we tend to think we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own." - Madeleine l'Engle P>If we think we know all about God, He always messes up our theology!
God takes all our sins and puts them in the bottom of the ocean and says, "No Fishing." - Corrie ten Boom
The richest man without Jesus Christ is poor; the poorest man with Jesus Christ is rich.
We are to be impressed by God and aware of Satan, not impressed by Satan and aware of God - Dean Sherman
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall bend and not be broken.
Middle age is when you think those older than you are old.
A need is really an opportunity to discover God's supply." - Malcolm Smith
Jesus was born into the family of men that we might be born again into the family of God."
Religion changes you from the outside in, but Jesus changes you from the inside out.
Prayer is the laces for the shoes of the gospel of peace.
Heaven has a party when Jesus is born in a new heart - Luke 15:10
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan
BIBLE: "Basic Information Before Leaving Earth"
Wise men still seek Jesus.
Lies cannot find root in a clean head.
Life is like a precious coin. You and you alone should determine how to spend it. Don't let other people spend it for you!
People don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
God so loved the world that He did not send a committee.
Work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long and the pay is low. But the retirement benefits are out of this world.
If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.
If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd.
Father God is happy when we love His Son who will soon return for His Bride; He loves His Bride as much as He loves His Son.
Jesus Christ is the only One who ever read His will before He died, then returned to oversee it was carried out according to His instructions. - Bill Prankard
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Church Marquees seen across the country - Peter Jordan, B.C.:
"The best vitamin for a Christian is B1"
"Under same management for over 2000 years"
"Soul food served here"
"Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case!"
"Life has many choices, Eternity has two. What's yours?"
"Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings"
"Christians, keep the faith... But not from others!"
"Satan subtracts and divides. God adds and multiplies"
"If you do not want to reap the fruits of sin stay out of the devil's orchard"
"To belittle is to be little"
"God answers knee mail"
God does not want excuses; He wants forgiveness. - Rod Hembree
If you give the devil an inch, he'll be your ruler.
Conscience is e-mail sent from God. - Billy Graham
Judgment is the fruit of pride.
We can even be proud of our humility.
True prayer is measured by the strength of our faith, not by the length of our prayer. - Benny Hinn
Blessed are the flexible for they shall bend and not be broken.
Pride is one who insists his agenda is the only way to do it.
Jesus bought us the right to be free, therefore we have no right to not allow others to be free.
Anxiety is living in the future--digging wells without cisterns.
We must believe our steps are ordered by the Lord, therefore every circumstance is for a purpose.
The world says "See it and believe it"; God says "Believe it and see it."
"It is good to be tired and weary from fruitlessly seeking true good so that one can stretch out one's arms to the Redeemer. - Pascal
We are not called to be achievers, but called to be believers.
Prayer is the path to revival.
Christians need to take the 'L' out of the 'WORLD'.
Some Christian's prayer language sounds like this: "Hara-shundi, Tie my bow-tie." - Joyce Meyer
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -John Bunyan
Prayer that touches the heart of God is not a mere exercise of words but a deperate cry of the heart to an omnipotent God - Benny Hinn
Today is the "present" that God has given you.
Fear is the dark room where Satan develops our negatives.
If you don't make up your mind to enjoy your life, the devil will make sure you don't.
Your heart is the womb of your life.
The Bible doesn't say we can have joy in our circumstances but that we can find joy in the Holy Ghost.
The joy of the Lord is my strength, and lack of joy of the Lord makes me weep (from Prov. 17:22)
When Satan tries to get you upset, realize it is a plot against your joy!
Old age is when the left hand fogetteth what the right hand doeth.
I don't reject Jesus because of Judas, nor do I reject Jesus because of churches.
You have made our hearts for Thee, and they will not rest until they rest in Thee - St. Augustine
Pressure is what makes coal into diamonds; pressure is what makes us into the image of God.
Fear is false evidence appearing real.
An angry man said to God: "Where were You when my son died"? and God answered: "Same place I was when my Son died."
Where the mind goes, the man follows.
The 7 deadly sins: Pride, Fear, Lust, Anger, Greed, Jealousy, Sloth.
You can't pray and whine at the same time.
True humility is having the right opinion of yourself.
'Anger' is only one letter short of 'danger'.
He who loses money loses much; He who loses a friend loses more; He who loses faith loses all.
Learn from the mistakes ofo others. You can' live long enough to make all them yourself.
The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it!
As we submit to God, we bend low enough to see His footprints.
I need not suffer for the sins of others; Jesus did that!
Most of us are more committed to our taste buds than we are to our health - Peter Youngren
Irish Blessing: May you have the hindsight to know where you have been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Repentance removes the legal access of the enemy of our souls.
The Israelites walked in circles for 40 years because they wouldn't change the way they talked!
People are to graze on green pastures, not green pastors.
Our difficulties are God's incredible opportunities.
We can't control what's happening TO us, but we can control what's happening IN us.
Brokenness is the way to wholeness.
Give God what's right, not what's left!
When praying, don't give God instructions, just report for duty.
Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
Your mouth is directly connected to your peace level.
Before you speak, you are the master of your words. After you speak, your words are your master. Therefore, think before you speak.
(Some of the above authors are unknown)
© 1999, Doreen Palmer