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301 An ulcer is what you get
mountaineering over molehills.
302 When you turn from temptation be sure
you don’t leave a forwarding address.
303 Everyone lives in one of two tents –
content or discontent.
304 Give yourself to God. He can do more
with you when you can.
305 Don’t be afraid to be honest with God
you will never be short changed.
306 A smile is the lighting system of the
face and the heating system of the heart.
307 What sunshine is to the flowers, Son
Shine is to humanity.
308 When you become a Christian God calls
you to a battleground not a playground.
309 God gets his best soldiers from the
Highlands of Affliction. (Spurgeon)
310 Take your stand. If you don’t stand for
something you will fall for everything.
311 Silence is evidence of a superb command
of the English language.
312 An error gracefully acknowledged is a
victory won.
313 He stands best who kneels most, he
stands strongest who kneels weakest, he stands longest who kneels lowest.
Bent knees make strong backs.
314 Men do not usually reject the Bible
because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.
315 Sin will keep you from the Bible, but
the Bible will keep you from Sin.
316 A lie will go round the world twice while
the truth is getting its boots on. (Dwight Moody)
317 Faith hears the inaudible, sees the
invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.
318 God didn’t promise an easy voyage but a
safe arrival.
319 The word of God is meant to be Bread for
daily use, not cake for special occasions.
320 All the roads to success and achievement
are uphill.
321 Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s
nut that that held its ground.
322 Seven days without Worship makes one
weak.
323 Life is fragile – handle with prayer.
324 The world has yet to see what God can do
with a man completely dedicated to him (D.L.Moody)
325 An error gracefully acknowledged is a
victory won. (Gascoine)
326 Sign on Ronald Reagan’s desk –“there is
no limit to what a man can do if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
327 Remember, people will judge you by your
actions not by your intentions – you may have a heart of gold but so has a
hard boiled egg.
328 Blessed is he who expects nothing – for
he shall not be disappointed.
329 If there were no God it would have been
necessary to invent Him. (Voltaire)
330 He started to sing as he tackled the
thing that couldn’t be done – and he did it.(Edgar Guest)
331 You can’t get a worm out of an apple by
polishing the apple.
332 A man who refuses to admit his mistakes
can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them he gets another chance.
333 The most underdeveloped territory in the
world lies under your hat.
334 Too many people have the idea that life
is meant to be happy and full of fun, but it’s meant to be filled with
Praise for, and Service to, God.
335 Christians need to follow Christ’s
example of Compassion, Confrontation and Continuation (of His mind set).
336 If you want to conquer, you have to
yield. If you want a life, you have
to lay it down. If you want
strength, you must have weakness. If you want to have, you must
yield to God. (Derek Prince)
337 Don’t fight God when he demands
ridiculous to sacrifice . . . . . .Trust Him. (Derek Prince)
338 If you can’t say something simply, you
haven’t understood it clearly.(Derek Prince)
339 God wants people who will flow against the
tide of contemporary of thinking.
340 The trouble with many Christians is that
while carrying their cross they oppose those who carry the nails!
341 Holiness is not the way to Christ –
but Christ is the way to holiness.
342 All the time we focus on our Sin instead
of the Cross, we insult God by saying His Sacrifice wasn’t enough to Cover
our Sin.
343 Sin is a disease – the more we expose
ourselves to it, the greater its hold on us.
344 Feelings are important, but they can rob
you of Faith.
345 Conviction of Sin is worthless unless
converted into acts of repentance.
346 Faith receives – Presumption grabs,
347 No problem is too big for God’s Power.
No person is too small for God’s love.
348 ‘Endure’ means ‘abide under’ (like a
donkey)
349 We don’t need to go around shouting at
the darkness but we do need to go around turning the Light on.
350 There is a very small step between faith
and presumption.
351 ‘Heaviness’ without apparent cause could
be some well-intentioned, but misguided Christian accusing me before God.
352 The sun that melts wax also hardens
clay - we must recognize the Clay
and not exhaust ourselves trying to melt it. (Martyn Lloyd Jones)
353 Christ is not short of people willing to
serve . . . in an advisory
capacity!
354 If you want to get 500 miles away you’d
be foolish to follow a parked car – so don’t stay in a church that’s not
going anywhere.
355 Our Calling is to follow through and
finish what the Lord has told us to do - knowing Jesus has gone ahead of
us.
356 Sometimes temptation comes to us at one
of our strong points and at the hands of a friend rather than an
enemy. Where threats have
failed some flattering attention
may win an immediate victory.
357 God shows his anger by standing back and
letting us get on with the mess we are making. (Bishop Gavin Reed)
358 God’s word is often dismissed because
the Truth hurts and requires a radical change of mindset and behaviour.
359 There was a regular rhythm in life on
earth for Jesus – Pressure; Power from Prayer; Pressure Etc. . . .
.Work, Withdrawal, Work etc. If I am to be effective for Him,
there must be a similar rhythm in my life too.
360 A Bible and towel are more appropriate
for leaders in the church than a leather chair and mobile phone.
361 Jesus only did what the Father was doing
at that moment.
362 Obedience is better than sacrifice.
363 Ignoring the Call of God is
disobedience.
364 Let your speech be seasoned with, not consist of, salt.
365 Faith = when the infirmity of man takes
hold of the Infinity of God.
366 We are not Called to keep everyone
happy, we are Called to make God happy.
367 Holiness is ‘Godliness with guts’. (Eric
Delve)
368 When we get to the place where it can’t
be done unless God does it, God will do it!
369 Satan will try to isolate Missionaries
by causing friction between them.
370 It is possible to see God Blessing you,
and Annointing you, and using you for His glory, but still not be in that
place with Him where He is able to use you as effectively and fully as He
would like. (Colin Urquart)
371 Scriptural faith may be defined as
believing God means what He has said in His Word - and that God will do
what He has promised in His Word to
do. (Derek Prince)
372 Faith = knowing what God has said, Believing what God has said, Saying what God has said, Acting on what God has said.
373 God is looking for worshippers – not
workers.
374 Unity is given by God – it has to be
lived in, not striven for.
375 When we’re conscious of the Holy Spirit
in our midst there is unity.
376 We must live in the Spirit – not
experience.
377 Whatever God Calls you to do, He will
give you faith to do.
378 Conflict = when my will conflicts with
God’s Will, at the Cross.
379 If God’s Called you – you must know what
he said and you must act on what he said to you.
380 Disobedience to the Word of God ruins
the Call of God.
381 Pride, arrogance and unforgiveness hinder Faith.
382 Someone sky diving for the first time
has their instructor strapped to their back, to ensure the right cords are
pulled at the right time – both to steer and to land safely. We Christians
need to be aware of the Holy Spirit instructing us, so our lives are
steered correctly and we land in heaven.
383 If Satan can cause you to be
discouraged, he will, for then you may be persuaded to leave the area of
service the Lord has prepared for you, in the place of His choosing.
384 How sad it is when people of God moved by his Spirit to repentance,
change and growth . . . stop moving with Him, as complacency and religious
pride sets in and spiritual stagnation starts.(Jason Richards)
385 In 1805 some Indian Chiefs and warriors
met at Buffalo Creek , New York, to hear the Christian message from
Mr Cram of the Boston Missionary Society. Afterwards Red Jacket said
“you have been preaching to the white people here . . . .we’ll see if
your preaching makes them honest
and less disposed to treat Indians badly, then we will consider what
you have said.”
386 Robert Murray McShane said “remember,
you are God’s instrument. In great measure, according to the purity and
perfection of the instrument will be the success. It is not a great talent
God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus . . . if the workmen loses the
edge . . Christ’s work will be
badly done.”
387 The devil is the godless, relentless,
brutal, yet brilliant adversary of our souls.
388 The devil has no strategy to deal with
true humility.
389 The Holy Spirit will not flow up
mountains of arrogance and pride but only in the valleys of humility.
390 Stubbornness = is making idols of our
own opinions.
391 The Good News is that God calls us to
relationship with Him – not a religious performance.
392 We need to fast from our own thoughts
and opinions more than from food.
393 God only speaks once on a subject - yet is always willing to confirm His
Will.
394 To believe the impossible we must see
the invisible.
395 It is impossible to hold the nail scared
Hands of Jesus and also clutch sins we know to be offensive to Him – as sin
separates us from Him.
396 God’s delight is in showing His Power
through weak and unlikely people.
397 You won’t have God’s Strength to kick a
bad habit until you say “No” to it.
398 In prayer it is better to have a heart
without words than words without a heart. (John Bunyan)
399 A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one
step (Chinese proverb)
400 The only way to do a job well is to do
it as if it were the only job in the world.
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