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Feb
09

THOT 4 2 DAY — 02.09.10

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“Have you heard God’s blessing in your inmost being? Are the words “You are my beloved child, in whom I delight” an endless source of joy and strength?

Have you sensed, through the Holy Spirit, God speaking them to you? That blessing – the blessing through the Spirit that is ours through Christ – is what Jacob received, and it is the only remedy against idolatry. Only that blessing makes idols uneccesary.

As with Jacob, we usually discover this only after a life of ‘looking for blessing in all the wrong places’ It often takes an experience of crippling weakness for us to finally discover it. That is why so many of the most God-blessed people limp as they dance for joy.” — Timothy Keller

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Feb
08

THOT 4 2 DAY — 02.08.10

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“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.” — John Wesley
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Feb
07

Sunday Quotes 02.07.10

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01763_fishingatdusk_1920x1080“There has not only been an objective, public act of divine self-disclosure in the crucifixion of God’s own Son, but there must be a private work of God by his Spirit, in the mind and heart of the individual. If we should express unqualified gratitude to God for the gift of his Son, we should express no less gratitude for the gift of the Spirit who enables us to grasp the gospel of His Son…Unless the Spirit enlightens us, God’s thoughts will remain deeply alien to us.” — D. A. Carson

“Never did creature turn his affections towards God, if the heart of God were not first set upon Him.” — John Owen

“We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:8 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.” — Timothy Keller

“What he (Jesus) desired was a new will, a new purpose, a new dominating impulse, arising out of one’s loyalty to God, which should activate a new type of man, so revolutionary in character that this change was likened to a new birth.” –Harland E. Hogue

“Our deliverance from the law is a rescue from its curse and its bondage, and so relates to the two particular functions of justification and sanctification. In both areas we are under grace, not law. For justification we look to the cross, not the law, and for sanctification to the Spirit, not the law. It is only by the Spirit that the law can be fulfilled in us.” -— John Stott

“If the mark of his blood is upon any word, thou needest never doubt it. If he has died, how canst thou perish? If he has bidden thee come, how can he cast thee out? If thou dost rest upon his finished work, how canst thou be condemned? Believe, I pray thee, and rest thee on the blood-sprinkled words of this wondrous Book.” — Charles Spurgeon

“We’re in God’s hands.” –Martin Schulz
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bible-1602.07
Exodus 26:1-27:21
Matthew 25:1-30
Psalm 31:1-8
Proverbs 8:1-11

02.08
Exodus 28:1-43
Matthew 25:31-26:13
Psalm 31:9-18
Proverbs 8:12-13

02.09
Exodus 29:1-30:10
Matthew 26:14-46
Psalm 31:19-24
Proverbs 8:14-26

02.10
Exodus 30:11-31:18
Matthew 26:47-68
Psalm 32:1-11
Proverbs 8:27-32

02.11
Exodus 32:1-33:23
Matthew 26:69-27:14
Psalm 33:1-11
Proverbs 8:33-36

02.12
Exodus 34:1-35:9
Matthew 27:15-31
Psalm 33:12-22
Proverbs 9:1-6

02.13
Exodus 35:10-36:38
Matthew 27:32-66
Psalm 34:1-10
Proverbs 9:7-8
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Feb
06

THOT 4 2 DAY — 02.06.10

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“Jesus’ message is not to be good boys and girls so that when you die you can go to heaven. The message of Jesus is ‘I love you. I love you so deeply it kills me.’” — Rich Mullins
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Feb
05

THOT 4 2 DAY — 02.05.10

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A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.–  A. W. Tozer
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Feb
04

THOT 4 2 DAY — 02.04.10

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Ah, tolerant generation, who pays the prophets and fondles them who are sent unto you…woe. Cursed be your Judas embrace. Damned be your friendliness…it lays shattering condemnation on your prophets….Damned be this cool tepidity….Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Make me a fork [in the road], that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. – Jim Elliot
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