“Most Christians in our culture live like everyone else. There is little distinction between our lives and the lives of the pagans down the street. We wear the same clothes, watch the same movies, read the same books, send our children to the same schools, and sign the same divorce decrees as everyone else.”
Voddie Baucham
“If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
John Piper
If the faith whereby I have laid hold on Christ to be my Savior be altogether wrought in me by the Holy Ghost through grace, then I defy the devil to take away that which he never gave me or to crush that which Jehovah Himself created in me. I defy my free will to fling what it never brought to me. What God has given, created, introduced, and established in the heart, He will maintain there.
Charles Spurgeon
Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
A.W. Tozer
Written by Karen Holland
The bride adorned in holy attire
Rises from the womb of the dawn ready for battle.
As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
His head adorned like a priest
As a bride adorns herself with her jewels
In the beauties of holiness.
Awake, awake
Clothe yourself in strength, O Daughter of Zion
Clothe yourself in beautiful garments
With garments of salvation
A robe of righteousness
A necklace of mercy and truth
A heart adorned with a gentle and quiet spirit
Purified in obedience to the truth
A heart of tender mercy full of peace
Be clothed in compassion, kindness, humility,
Forgiveness, gentleness and patience
Thankful hearts bound by love dwelling in perfect unity.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name
Bring an offering, a sacrifice of praise
Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him with reverent fear.
Thankful hearts bound by Christ’s love dwell in perfect unity
A precious oil
A sweet, sweet scent flowing down from the head
Flowing down off the hem of His robe
Anointed heads
Anointed with the oil of joy
By the hand of the Lord GOD Almighty
Righteousness and praise will spring up before all the nations
The bride adorned in a garment of praise
An everlasting crown of joy upon her head.
Sing, O Daughter of Zion
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart
The Bridegroom comes to dance over you with singing
Behold, the Bridegroom comes to dwell in your midst
Sing, O Daughter of Zion
Praise the beauty of His holiness
Give thanks to the LORD, for His love endures forever!
“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”
John Piper
Written by Karen Holland
The Lion of Judah aroused
Hear His mighty call
Living waters rushing, flowing
Peals of thunder
A sound from heaven
Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns
Deep calling out to deep
The sound of waterfalls.
Shout! Clap you hands
Sound the trumpet
Praise the Lord
Awake the dawn
Sing His praise before the nations
With the voice of triumph
For it is written
Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess
Giving praise to the Lord God Almighty!
Lift up your heads, O you gates
Be lifted up, you ancient doors
Behold, the King of glory quickly comes
His glory fills the temple
Hold fast
The Lion of Judah in victory reigns.
All in His temple cry aloud “GLORY!”
Join the mighty thunderous roar
Awake the dawn!
Revelation 19:6, 3:11; Psalms 42:7, 57:8-9, 24:7, 29:9; Romans 14:11
To argue that God is “trying his best” to save all mankind, but that the majority of men will not let Him save them, is to insist that the will of the Creator is impotent, and that the will of the creature is omnipotent. To throw the blame, as many do, upon the devil, does not remove the difficulty, for if Satan is defeating the purpose of God, then, Satan is Almighty and God is no longer the Supreme being.
A.W. Pink
