I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. … When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. … Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.
When the Holy Spirit blew through the Upper Room windows, there was a reversed Babel-effect. The hand of the Lord was no longer scattering and dividing men whose hearts were set against Him, but instead, gathering them for a new unified purpose. Where language once brought confusion and sounded of nonsense, it had now become a mighty tool to point men and women back to their Creator.
God can prepare a person their whole life to do more in one day than others do in their whole lives.
Crisis will come because we live in a fallen world, a time and place where there are angry people, bad choices, car accidents, disease, and other things that stand against us. But that’s why knowing our purpose is so important. When we know why we’re on the earth, we aren’t swept off our feet when crisis appears.
February 11, 2020
I refuse to be an ordinary man. You say, “Why do you?” Because I have an extraordinary God who makes extraordinary people.
January 1, 2020
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
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.
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
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.