QUIET TIME TAKEAWAYS There is power in praise! MY NOTES: “Praise is the most powerful force God gives us to combat evil. Yet our fears block praise.” “Rejoice Evermore, Christ has won the war.” God Calling “As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men…who were invading…and they were defeated.” …
QUIET TIME TAKEAWAYS Courage takes love. MY NOTES: “Courage is what shows up at the testing point of every virtue. At that moment we show who we love most, self or others.” ” It takes an incredible ethos love to lay down your life for another. “ “Only great courage combats great evil.” “No one …
QUIET TIME TAKEAWAYS God gave us the rules. How I live today matters in eternity. MY NOTES: “The choices we make now determine the choices we will or won’t have in life to come.” Greg Laurie “A man reaps what he sows.” Gal 6:7 “It’s either eternal destruction or eternal life. God tells us the …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: Interceding is holding others up to God when they are crushed down. MY NOTES: “In light of this week’s tragedy- God gave me all this today … …crushing hard week.” “Intercession is not petition, it’s position.” “The classroom of prayer is in the school of suffering.” “You see things differently through eyes …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: My best decision is to trust God’s Spirit in me to make all my decisions. MY NOTES: “Enthusiasm in Greek is ‘en Theos’, meaning God within.” TWFYT “There is no limit to what God can do with me if I let Him choose .” “Sometimes my ‘good’ choices aren’t the best for …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: Faithfulness in love takes action. MY NOTES: “We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” 2 Cor. 5:10 “In this Scripture, bad means worthless. So I ask, …
QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: God continues to offer me Himself through His Word. He wants it in me. MY NOTES: “God didn’t give up on Adam and Eve, He won’t give up on me either. I can’t be what He intended if I live without His heart in me.” Paul David Tripp “Jesus won’t accept my …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: Who controls my life’s pump? Do I drink earth’s or eternity’s water? MY NOTES: “An old surface pump requires us to prime it and then pump a lot to get the water to rise up. But in an artesian well it just springs up.” (Which water do I desire? The one with …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: Prayer unleashes God’s promise of power to handle my problems. MY NOTES: I focus more on my problem than on God’s promise and power. (Experiencing God) “These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me.” Isa. 29:13, Mat 15:8 “Jesus always prayed before he handled his problems. …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: God does all the work to soften my heart but he won’t force me to accept His love. TODAY’S NOTES ALL FROM: Charles Spurgeon’s book: ‘Talks to Farmers’ “Paying attention to your business without paying attention to God is a bit like trying to plough your field without a horse. “ “A …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: Our comparison compromises the monumental things God is doing in us individually. MY NOTES: “Jesus had just told Peter of his martyrdom; yet immediately Peter wanted to compare himself with John asking, ‘Lord, what about him?” John 21:21 (Experiencing God) Take care not to care more about how God handles others than …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: God will wash the slime out of our dead hearts. MY NOTES: “A lake with only an inlet dies … it must have a flow to have life. (Think of the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea.) We are similar in our need to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit or …
QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: God doesn’t try to be politically correct, but He is always correct. MY NOTES: “Be aghast at Who I disregard in favor of my own opinion.” William Grunall “Political correctness says: ‘tickle my ears, but don’t step on my toes!” TWFYT “Preach God’s message. It may not popular but it’s still true.” …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: My conscience wants to obey Jesus more than I do…. MY NOTES: “Our conscience always knows best, don’t debate it.” O. Chambers “…there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. So I strive…to keep my conscience clear before God and men.” Acts 24:15-16 “Being ‘nice’ on the outside …
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QUIET TIME TAKEAWAY: Life tends to harden us. But my heart can soften as I get older if I am tenacious in prayer. MY NOTES: We can live spiritually dehydrated. (Like an old scratchy sponge.) S. Gunter and my note “In prayer, there are no impossibilities. “ Brother Andrew “My strength lies solely in my …
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