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Pastor Joe's Spiritual Food For Thought

Though the light shines on things unclean, yet it is not thereby defiled.
~ Augsutine

For with you is the fountain of life; In your light we see light.
~ Psalm 36:9

The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you: But the Lord will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

You sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the Lord will be your everlasting light, And the days of your mourning shall be ended.
~ Isaiah 60:19-20

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit for such things as God has promised.
~ Bunyan

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance: it is laying hold of its highest willingness.
~Trench

The prayer that beginning with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph and praise.
~ A. Maclaren

Light is the symbol of truth as darkeness is the symbol of falsehood.
~ J.R. Lowell

Moral light is the radiation of diviner glory.
~ Anonymous

The light of nature, the light of scinece, and the light of reason, are but as darkness compared with the divine light which shines only from the word of God.
~ J.K. Lord

This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
~ 1 John 1:5-7

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
~ Dwight L. Moody

Revival is a new beginning of obedience to God . . . just as in the case of a converted sinner, the first step is a deep repentance, the breaking down of the heart, a getting down in the dust before God, with deep humility and a forsaking of sin.
~ Charles Finney

Then he said to them "It is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day," and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jesrusalem.
~ Luke 24: 46-47

Prayer is the “open sesame” of the Bible. Always begin your Bible reading with prayer for divine guidance. All of us in reading some current book have wished the author were present to answer and explain some things, but this is rarely possible. Amazing as it seems, this is possible when reading the Bible.
~ G. S.

I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible.
- D. L. Moody

The very same Holy Spirit, who led these men to write, longs to lead us today so we can understand. Without the Holy Spirit, the .Bible is like an ocean which cannot be sounded, heavens which cannot be surveyed, mines which cannot be explored, and mysteries beyond unraveling. We must – we must – yield to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
~G. S.

That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, , you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
~Romans 10:9-10

All the sin that has darkened human life and saddened human history began in believing a falsehood: all the power of Christianity to make men holy is associated with believing truth.
-J. A. Broadus

The wages that sin bargains for with the sinner are life, pleasure, and profit; but the wages it pays him are death, torment, and destruction. To understand the falsehood and deceit of sin, we must compare its promises and payments together.
- South.

Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night.
-Talmage

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
~Romans 6:22, 23

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
-Psalm 33:12

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who Delights greatly in His commandments.
-Psalm 112:1

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
-AW Tozer

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
-Daniel Webster

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor his will as revealed by Christ and declared by the Holy Spirit.
-John Haggii

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
-Psalm 33:12

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who Delights greatly in His commandments.
-Psalm 112:1

When Karl Barth, a famous Theologian was asked what the greatest though he ever had, his reply was “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so”.

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
~1 John 4: 9 - 10

One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord. Moody’ s reply was “ I agree wit h you. I don’t like the way I do it either. Tell me, how do you do it?” The lady replied, “I don’t do it.” Moody retorted” Then I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”

~ Anonomous

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

~Matthew 28:18-20

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

~Romans 10:14-15