It isn’t what you have in your pocket
that makes you thankful,
but what you have in your heart.
Jer 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Let’s all think about being in His image and after His likeness as He longs for us to be.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
He paid a debt, He did not owe; I owed a debt, I could not pay.
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Only God can give all of Himself to everyone.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
People want Jesus to be their Savior, but they don’t want Him to be their Lord.
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
God needs our availability more than our ability.
Matthew 25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
The safest place to be is within the Will of God.
Luke 8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
Unless we rely on God’s power within us, we will yield to the pressures around us.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Man’s way leads to a hopeless end, God’s way leads to an endless hope.
1 Peter 3:1 5But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
J.C. Penney said:
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll show you a man who will make history; show me a man without a goal and I’ll show you a stock clerk.
Proverbs 10:4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Television relies for its effectiveness on tricks, not perceptiveness, complete with canned laughter, studio applause, and special effects–a medium fated never to get beneath the surface.
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
A true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection.
Psalms 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. –Charles Caleb Colton
Psalms 33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
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