May 2012
47 posts
Where's Your Focus?
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. —1 Corinthians...
This is one of my favourite Chinese worship song -...
Walking in purity
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? —Psalm 42:1-2
We will never be empowered to walk in purity without the foundation of affection for Jesus. External disciplines and commitments to high standards of holiness without a living devotion for Jesus have little real power or life in them....
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put...”
– Neil Armstrong
“Never make a principle out of your experience, let God be as original with other...”
– Oswald Chambers
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. —Ephesians 5:25-27, KJV
The Holy Spirit wants to impact people for Jesus, not for the latest exciting ministry in...
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Prepare to be misunderstood
Then all the disciples deserted him [Jesus] and fled. —Matthew 26:56
The paramount stigma of being today’s man or woman is probably that of being misunderstood. Nothing is more painful than this. We can cope with a lot that people say against us—as long as they are fully in the picture and still disagree. But what hurts is when they aren’t in the picture and they form judgments and...
Openness to the Spirit
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. —Matthew 11:6, KJV
Some of us find it easier to be open to the Word than to the Holy Spirit. Being open to the Word directly is to be open to the Spirit indirectly—as the Spirit applies that Word. But being open to the Spirit is when He manifests Himself in an immediate and direct manner.
We feel safe with the Word but fearful that the...
“We are certain there is forgiveness, because there is a gospel, and the very...”
– Charles H. Spurgeon
April 2012
45 posts
