“The change
that Jesus Christ brings is permanent in its nature,
infinite in its scope, and invincible in its power.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The
old life is gone; a new life has begun!
---II Corinthians 5:17
February 2,
2007
“Pray for a
tough hide and a tender heart.”
---Ruth Graham
It wouldn’t do for a prophet of God to be killed except in
Jerusalem! O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the
prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have
wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects
her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me.
---Luke 13:33-34
February 3,
2007
What does it
take to be the best? Everything. And everything is up to
you.”
---Emmitt Smith
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one
person gets the prize? So run to win!
---I Corinthians 9:24
February 4,
2007
“The bravest
are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is
before them, glory and danger alike, and yet
notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”
---Thucydides
As the time drew near for him to ascend to heaven, Jesus
resolutely out for Jerusalem.
---Luke 9:51
February 5,
2007
“I have a lot
of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life
fearlessly.”
---Oprah Winfrey
How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight in
obeying his commands…They do not fear bad news; they
confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They are
confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly.
---Psalm 112:1, 7-8
February 6,
2007
“Sorrow looks
back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.”
---Joyce B. Brown
When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the
water, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and
there was a great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you
afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
---Mark 4:39-40
February 7,
2007
“It is much
easier to be critical than to be correct.”
---Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British statesman and
novelist
Stop criticizing others or it will come back on you.
---Luke 6:37
February 8,
2007
“Love, I
thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only
by it, by love, life holds together and advances.”
---Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the
greatest of these is love.
---I Corinthians 13:13
February 9,
2007
“Never mistake
knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other
helps you make a life.”
---Sandra Carey
The rewards of wisdom come to all who obey him.
---Psalm 111:10
February 10,
2007
“Success
doesn’t come to you…you go to it.”
---Marva Collins, educator
Now therefore give me this mountain…And Joshua blessed him
and gave Caleb an inheritance.
---Joshua 14:12; 14
February 11,
2007
“God is present
even in His absence.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
O Lord, how long will this go on?
Will you hide yourself forever?
---Psalm 89:46
I can never escape from you Spirit! I can never get away
from your presence!
---Psalm 139:7
February 12,
2007
“You need never
give up hope of holiness. When you find yourself in the
midst of any kind of temptation, God says, I’m right there
in it with you, because I don’t want you to sin.”
---Bruce Wilkinson, in Beyond Jabez
There is no temptation that comes to you but such as is
common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you
to be tempted above what you are able to withstand or
resist.
---I Corinthians 10:13
February 13,
2007
It’s not only
children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to
see what our children do with their lives, they are watching
us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to
reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
---Joyce Maynard
Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and
heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be
with you.
---Philippians 4:9
February 14,
2007
“The mistake we
make is when we seek to be loved, instead of loving.”
---Charlotte Young (1823-1901), writer
Love each other with genuine affection.
---Romans 12:10
February 15,
2007
“There are only
two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy
will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy
will be done.’”
---C.S. Lewis, (1898-1963), author, scholar
O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me;
nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.
---Matthew 26:39
February 16,
2007
“People are
like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the
sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light within.”
---Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004), psychiatrist, author
This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to
you “God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.”
So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go
on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the
truth.”
---I John 1:5-6
February 17,
2007
“Faith is not
intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to
a Person where I see no way.
---Oswald Chambers, (1874-1917), Scottish minister and
teacher
What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we
hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we
cannot yet see.
---Hebrews 11:1
February 18,
2007
“We are told to
let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell
anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call
attention to their shining—they just shine.”
---Dwight L. Moody, (1837-1899), American evangelist
You are the light of the world---like a city on a hilltop
that cannot be hidden.
---Matthew 5:14
February 19,
2007
“We aren’t
called to be messiahs; we’re called to be messengers. You
don’t have to be a messiah in your home; you don’t have to
be a messiah in your church. You can be the best messenger
to point others to God.”
---Gary Thomas, founder of the Center for Evangelical
Spirituality in Bellingham, Washington
The following day John was again standing with two of his
disciples. As Jesus walked by, John looked at him and
declared, “Look! There is the Lamb of God!” When John’s two
disciples heard this, they followed Jesus.
---John 1:35-37
February 20,
2007
“Be quick
without hurrying.”
---John Wooden, former UCLA basketball coach and member of
the Basketball Hall of Fame
(46)A blind beggar named Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was
sitting beside the road as Jesus was going by. (49) When
Jesus heard him, he stopped and said, “Tell him to come
here.”
---Mark 10:46, 49
February 21,
2007
“Greatness lies
not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
---Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887), American minister,
author
(16)May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who loved
us and in his special favor gave us everlasting comfort and
good hope, (17) comfort your hearts and give you strength in
every good thing you do and say.
---II Thessalonians 2:16-17
February 22,
2007
“Pray as if
everything depended upon God and work as if everything
depended upon man.”
---Francis Joseph Spellman, (1889-1967), Catholic archbishop
of New York
(37) He said to his disciples, “The harvest is so great, but
the workers are so few. (38) So pray to the Lord who is in
charge of the harvest, ask him to send out more workers for
his fields.
---Matthew 9: 37-38
February 23,
2007
“Don’t give up,
don’t ever give up.”
---Jim Valvano, (1946-1993), college basketball coach and
motivator who died of cancer
And so, since God in his mercy has given us this wonderful
ministry, we never give up.
---II Corinthians 4:1
February 24,
2007
“Man, alone,
has the power to transform his thoughts into physical
reality; man, alone can dream and make his dreams come
true.”
---Napolean Hill, (1883-1970). American speaker, author
By faith these people overthrew kingdoms, ruled with
justice, and received what God had promised them.
---Hebrews 11:33
February 25,
2007
“The Word is
not only strengthening but sweetening, sweeter than honey
and the honeycomb. Some believers are strong but not sweet.”
---Vance Havner, American evangelist
(9) The laws of the Lord are true; each on is fair. (10)
They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the
comb.
---Psalm 19: 9-10
February 26,
2007
“Those who work
the hardest are the last to surrender.”
---Rick Pitino, basketball coach
(15) When our enemies heard that we knew of their plans and
that God had frustrated them, we all returned to our work on
the wall. (16) But from then on, only half of my men worked
while the other half stood guard with spears, shields, bows,
and coats of mail.
---Nehemiah 4: 15-16
February 27,
2007
“The reward of
a thing well done is to have done it.”
---Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
The master said, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
---Matthew 25:23
February 28,
2007
“Do you feel
like you are overwhelmed by the circumstances that surround
you? Feeling like you are not the right person for the task?
Remember, God sends his most faithful, not necessarily his
most talented, servants into life’s most difficult battles.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
David shouted in reply (to Goliath), “You come to me with
sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of
the Lord Almighty.”
---I Samuel 17:45
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