* The cross is the signature of God, endorsing His new and final covenant with mankind. * God tugs us toward His kingdom with cords of adversity while captivating us with His chains of love. * Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. (Bob Dylan) * When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. (Bonhoeffer) * God cannot be to us the life of God without being the death of self. The fretful, greedy, fussy, self-centered, lustful, hateful “flesh-life” must die for the abundant life to live. * No one grows in the Lord nor in their capacity to serve the Lord unless they are pressed beyond measure. * All difficulties are within God’s purposes. * It is never the trial that makes us stronger. It is what we choose to do with it that strengthens us, so choose wisely. * We must drink deep of the word of God, for shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and drinking deep sobers one again. * Sometimes truth causes love to hurt. * We are so easily satisfied with lovers less wild. * Temptation’s response: In Christ I died, in His name I refuse. * Prayer is understanding what God wants to do, then asking Him to do it. * We need to hold all things of this life loosely, except Jesus, hold tight to Him. * God is our Sabbath – the day of rest is but a picture of Him. * God builds by design – we are to be obedient to the blueprint. * My job is the relentless pursuit of who God has designed me to be. Anything else I do is superfluous.
You hold my breath in Your hands
And own all my ways
So I will glorify You
My soul gives You praise
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