Quote For Today - Nate Saint

“People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.”

~Nate Saint

Quote for Today - Livingstone

If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be a sacrifice?

~David Livingstone

Quote for Today - Pink

“The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.”

~ A.W. Pink

Quote for Today

Unforgiveness is the poison we drink hoping others will die.

~Unknown

“For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.”

~ Matthew 6:14

“Then Peter came and said to Him, ‘Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.’”

~ Matthew 18:21

Quote for Today - Booth

“‘Not called,’ did you say?

‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say.

Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there.

Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.”

~ William Booth

Quote for Today - Tozer

In the New Testament there is no contradiction between faith and obedience. Between faith and law-works, yes; between law and grace, yes; but between faith and obedience, not at all. The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are opposite sides of the same coin. Were we to split a coin edgewise we would destroy both sides and render the whole thing valueless. So faith and obedience are forever joined and each one is without value when separated from the other. The trouble with many of us today is that we are trying to believe without intending to obey.

~ A. W. Tozer

Quote for Today - Ten Boom

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

“And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? . . . Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

~ Matthew 6:27, 31-33

A Psalm for Today

~ Psalm 24 ~

1: The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it.

2: For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

3: Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place?

4: He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.

5: He shall receive a blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6: This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face--even Jacob. Selah.

7: Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!

8: Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

9: Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!

10: Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.

Quote for Today - Luther

God doesn't need your good works, but your neighbor does. 

~ Martin Luther

A Psalm for Today

 ~ Psalm 18 ~

This is a long read but it is well worth it. There are many treasures in this Psalm! I have highlighted just a few of them that stood out to me.

1: I love You, O Lord, my strength.
2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
4: The cords of death encompassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.
5: The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
6: In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry for help before Him came into His ears.
7: Then the earth shook and quaked; and the foundations of the mountains were trembling and were shaken, because He was angry.
8: Smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it.
9: He bowed the heavens also, and came down with thick darkness under His feet.
10: He rode upon a cherub and flew; and He sped upon the wings of the wind.
11: He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12: From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, hailstones and coals of fire.
13: The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
14: He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, and lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
15: Then the channels of water appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16: He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
18: They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay.
19: He brought me forth also into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
20: The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
21: For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22: For all His ordinances were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me.
23: I was also blameless with Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
24: Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.
25: With the kind You show Yourself kind; with the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
26: With the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
27: For You save an afflicted people, but haughty eyes You abase.
28: For You light my lamp; the Lord my God illumines my darkness.
29: For by You I can run upon a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.
30: As for God, His way is blameless; the word of the Lord is tried; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
31: For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God,
32: The God who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless?
33: He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places.
34: He trains my hands for battle, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35: You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand upholds me; and Your gentleness makes me great.
36: You enlarge my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
37: I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were consumed.
38: I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.
39: For You have girded me with strength for battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40: You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, and I destroyed those who hated me.
41: They cried for help, but there was none to save, even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.
42: Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind; I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.
43: You have delivered me from the contentions of the people; You have placed me as head of the nations; a people whom I have not known serve me.
44: As soon as they hear, they obey me; foreigners submit to me.
45: Foreigners fade away, and come trembling out of their fortresses.
46: The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation,
47: The God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
48: He delivers me from my enemies; surely You lift me above those who rise up against me; You rescue me from the violent man.
49: Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, O Lord, and I will sing praises to Your name.
50: He gives great deliverance to His king, and shows lovingkindness to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

A Psalm for Today

~Psalm 146~

1: Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! 
2: I will praise the Lord while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 
3: Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. 
4: His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 
5: How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, 
6: Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; 
7: Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free. 
8: The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; the Lord raises up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous; 
9: The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, but He thwarts the way of the wicked. 
10: The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!