“God is not mocked. We cannot expect to be admitted into his presence with an attitude of disrespect.”
John Bevere
Author Archives: Steve Pruitt
Completes Our Enjoyment
“It’s not out of a compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are. The delight is incomplete until it is expressed. In the same way, we delight to praise God because our praise of him not merely expresses, but it completes our enjoyment.”
C.S. Lewis
As God Pleases
“Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.”
William Cowper
In the Heart
“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart – not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.”
John Piper
I Will Lift My Eyes
Written by Karen Holland
I will lift up my eyes
To my help and shield
To the One to whom my spirit yields
In the Lord I put all my hope and trust.
I will lift up my eyes
To the Maker of heaven and earth
Ever watching, ever guarding
He never sleeps
He alone has the power to keep my stumbling feet.
As I lift up my eyes
To the One who guards my ways
I will lift up my hands
To Him I will give all my praise
He is my Rock, my strength,
my impenetrable shield and
my joyful song!
Absolute Sovereign
“Learn then this basic truth, that the Creator is absolute Sovereign, executing His own will, performing His own pleasure, and considering nought but His own glory. ‘The LORD hath made all things FOR HIMSELF‘” (Proverbs 16:4).
A. W. Pink
Abased and Empty
Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in.
Andrew Murray
The Only Thing
“The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.”
William Temple