Often disappointments are His appointments and can lead to deeper spiritual richness.
– God is looking for more than leaves or flowers…He is looking for fruit. We need roots to produce fruit! Roots are very personal…we can’t depend on someone else’s!
– Babies are busy developing…but not by concentration…it is the result of LIFE being FED!
– A young woman’s prayer…”Help me to be responsive today so I can be responsible tomorrow!” (and she is!)
– phantom pain… The “Body” feeling for missing members.
– When we choose to feed the flesh, we may find what we are feeding on doesn’t really taste very good!
– When Joseph closed the door on Potipher’s wife, it cost him imprisonment…but, if he didn’t, it likely would have cost him his life!
– Prayer and fasting is opening the door to God and closing the door on self!
– How God conscious are you? God IS ABLE; God IS FAITHFUL; God WILL PROVIDE!! In1 Samuel 17, Israel had become more Goliath conscious and less God conscious. David acknowledged Goliath but was MORE God conscious!
– One man’s answer to Satan’s temptation to “sell out”…”Do you try to bribe a millionaire with a penny?”
– What we share in meeting should be a contribution…not a competition.
– We need the discipline of a soldier with ourselves and the compassion of a shepherd with others.
– Roots are essential for growth and fruit! Thoughts and meditations are roots…keep them healthy. Silly little white ants can ruin a big tree…watch out for little wrong thoughts.
– If hell has a “national anthem,” it would be “I Did It MY Way!”
– A test for humility… If someone puts you down, does it hurt? If it does, we aren’t there yet.
– There is a danger of being in the way OUTWARDLY; but out of the way INWARDLY.
– It is our weakness that makes us strong…because we feel our need of help. Think of the power in the cry of a child! Think of the power in a little seed…it is the power of life in the seed that is causing the great Wall of China to begin to crumble.
– Don’t look to others for an example…Jesus is the BEST example and if we follow Him, we will BE good examples!
– Don’t go to the doctor (or to God in prayer) and TELL him what the diagnosis and solution is…. Wait for Him to tell you!
– Sheep can’t live without chewing the cud (meditation) and they need a quiet resting place in which to do so.
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