God’s book is written for failures. It is full of folks who were foul-ups and flops but got a second chance. Perfect people? No. Perfect messes? You bet. Yet God used them all. A surprising and welcome discovery of the Bible is this: God uses failures.
Service
Ed Silvoso
Bible-based, Spirit-led social action is absolutely necessary in transformation process. Simply preaching without accompanying good works will not do it. Preaching will get people saved, but cities will not be transformed (much less nations), because the proclamation of the Gospel has to be validated by deeds that benefit society.
Katherine Walden
When Isaiah beheld God in His courts, he didn’t set up a hammock, he said, “Send me.”
Oswald Chambers
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently, by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.
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.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: “Early will I seek thee”, “thou shalt early hear my voice.” Family prayer loses much of its power and sweetness, and I can do no good to those who come to seek from me. The conscience feels guilty, the soul unfed, the lamp not trimmed. Then when in secret prayer the soul is often out of tune. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.
Christine Caine
Be confident that God will take your little and make it much. You may think your brokenness has disqualified you, but your brokenness is often the very thing that is used by God to bring hope, restoration, and grace to others. God is always working on us and in us for our good and His glory.
Jane Douglas White
Too often we say, “I have no talent to teach a Sunday school class.” “My home is not nice enough to have a Bible study here.” “I don’t cook well enough to help with Meals on Wheels.” “I’m a businessman, not a carpenter. I wouldn’t know the first thing about building a house for Habitat for Humanity.” When we step out in faith and offer all we have, God will use it in powerful ways. How much is enough? Just what we have when God is with us!
Randy Hunt
You were created to be an instrument of God. When you are not being used as an instrument of God, neither you nor God will find satisfaction in your use. There is a word for things that are not used for their intended purpose – it’s call perversion. God created you for His own good. When you are used for bad your use is being perverted. And there is no satisfaction in perversion. Whether we’re talking about perverting sex, perverting money, perverting time or perverting our lives – there is no satisfaction in perversion.
John Wesley
He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
John Wesley