Monthly Archives: June 2018

Romans 5:3-5 (NLT2) 3We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. 4  And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. 5  And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know … Continue reading →

Romans 15:13 (NLT2) I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. I have often, myself, sat in darkness, and cried aloud for the … Continue reading →

John 14:17 (NLT2) He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. The Holy Spirit cannot be located … Continue reading →

Before we can be filled with the Spirit, the desire to be filled must be all-consuming. It must be for the time the biggest thing in the life, so acute, so intrusive as to crowd out everything else. The degree of fullness in any life accords perfectly with the intensity … Continue reading →

I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice that he made who left his Father’s throne on high to give himself for us. —  David Livingstone (1813-1873) Ephesians 5:2 (NLT2)  Live a life filled with love, following the example of … Continue reading →

1 John 4:11 (NLT2) Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. — John … Continue reading →

Mark 9:23 (NLT2)  “What do you mean, ‘If I can’?” Jesus asked. “Anything is possible if a person believes.” When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say “I can’t.” — Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House … Continue reading →

Matthew 10:1 (NLT2) Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness. “The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in his limitless ways.” — Rebecca Manley Pippert … Continue reading →

Hebrews 7:25 (NLT2) 25  Therefore [Jesus] is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through Him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf. “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.” — Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) Edythe Draper, … Continue reading →

“Abilities are like tax deductions—we use them or we lose them.”  — Sam Jennings Matthew 25:15, 24-27 (NLT2)   [The Master] gave five bags of silver to one, two bags of silver to another, and one bag of silver to the last—dividing it in proportion to their abilities. He then … Continue reading →