When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
Motivation
T.J. Green
If you need a crowd, a platform, a title or a mic in order to minister:
You might only be a performer, not a prophet.
You might only be a professional, not a pastor.
If you stop for the one, welcome to the ministry.
Dan Wilt
When people sense that the ‘worship show’ is all about the leader and the musicians, and is less about the congregation meeting with God, they sense a hollowness in the corporate worship experience over time.
N. T. Wright
If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his own work, rather than supposing our burst of anger (which will most likely have all sorts of nasty bits to it, such as wounded pride, malice and envy) will somehow how help God do what needs to be done.
Author Unknown
If you consider yourself too important to serve where no one notices and thus there is no advantage given to your push your platform, then you’ll never be effective as a leader.
Author Unknown
Never pray for something or wish something to happen to someone else that you would not be willing to happen to yourself or a loved one.
John Wesley
Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.
Amy Carmichael
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Floyd McClung
February 3, 2020
By trying to please people and live up to their expectations, we can easily fall into a false form of spirituality. We find ourselves praying, reading Scripture, and worshipping not from the heart but from a secret motive to impress others. We become more interested in how we look to others than how we look to God. The more insecure we are, the more susceptible we become to the opinions of others. Humility frees us from this form of pride, allowing us to live to please the Lord.
John Bunyan
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.