Quotes of the Week

Just remember that God's presence enables the child of God to face today and tomorrow with complete confidence. God forgives the past, He controls the present, and He holds the future. - J. R. Faulkner

When you pray it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart. - J.R.F.

God's will for your life never contradicts His general path given in the Word of God. - John Reynolds

Do you pray for your pastor on Saturday night? Don't criticize him, but rather pray for him. He needs your prayers. The devil gives him enough opposition. You don't need to join the crowd that crucifies the man who is preaching the Word of God. You ought to uphold his hands as Aaron and Hur upheld the hands of Moses on behalf of Israel. My heart goes out to pastors who are in need of congregations who will stand with them. - J. Vernon McGee

Note that Satan can quote the Word: "For it is written" (Luke 4:10), but he does not quote it completely. Satan tries to use the Word of God to confuse us, so it is important that we know every word that God has given us. "You can prove anything by the Bible," someone said. True - if you take verses out of context, leave out words, and apply verses to Christians today that do not really apply. The better you know the Word of God, the easier it will be for you to detect Satan's lies and reject his offers. - Warren W. Wiersbe

Note the words Paul uses to close this letter [Ephesians]: peace - love - faith - grace! He was a prisoner of Rome, yet he was richer than the emperor. - Wiersbe

No difficulty that I have to face is too great for God, and nothing that troubles me is too insignificant for His care. - H. A. Ironside

I am sure that at the judgment-seat of Christ, when our blessed Lord is giving a reward to the Apostle Paul, He will call up many of the saints of whom we have never heard and have them stand with Paul, for they were his fellow-helpers in his ministry, and He will say, "You held up his hands in prayer, and you must share in the reward." - Ironside

Do not trust yourself. If you trust yourself, as Peter did, you will fall as Peter did. Peter told Jesus, "Even if all fall away, I will not" (Mark 14:29). But that very night, Peter, who considered himself the strongest of all the apostles, denied his Lord three times, on the last occasion even with oaths and cursings (Mark 14:66-72). If we trust to ourselves, we will fall. But if we know our own weakness and therefore turn to God as our necessary defense against Satan, then we will be able to stand against the devil's schemes. The Bible says, "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you" (James 4:7). - James Montgomery Boice