INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS !!!!!!!!!!

In Christ there is all of God in a human         (COLOSSIANS 2:9)

Jesus was not a godlike man, nor a manlike God. He was God-man. . . . The maker of the world with a bellybutton. . . .
What do we do with such a person? We applaud men for doing good things. We enshrine God for doing great things. But when a man does God things? One thing is certain, we can't ignore him. Why would we want to?

Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. 
(PHILIPPIANS 2:6) _Need more patience? Drink from the patience of God (2 PETER 3:9). Is generosity an elusive virtue? Then consider how generous God has been with you (ROMANS 5:8). Having trouble putting up with ungrateful relatives or cranky neighbors? God puts up with you when you act the same. "He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked" (LUKE 6:35).
                 Can't we love like this???



I know those I have chosen (JOHN 13:18) _Would you choose a wanted murderer to lead a nation out of bondage? Would you call upon a fugitive to carry the Ten Commandments? God did. . . . Called his name through a burning bush. Scared old Moses right out of his shoes! . . . The reassuring lesson is clear. God . . . uses people to change the world. People! Not saints or superhumans or geniuses, but people.


If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 JOHN 4:12)
God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately.Others have promised and failed. But God had promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. And His love__if you will let it__can fill you and leave you with a love worth giving.


Thank God! He deserves your thanks. His love never quits.   (PSALM 136:1)
If I know that one of the privileges of fatherhood is to comfort a child, then why as I so reluctant to let my heavenly Father comfort me? Why do I think he wouldn't want to hear about my problems? ("They are puny compared to people starving in India.") Why do I think he is too busy for me???


I call to you in times of trouble, because you will answer me.
           (PSALM 86:7)
You can talk to God because God listens. Your voice matters in heaven. He takes you very seriously. When you enter His presence, the attendants turn to you to hear your voice. No need to fear that you will be ignored. Even if you stammer or stumble, even if what you have to say impresses no one, it impresses God, and He listens.

The heavens tell the glory of God.
           (PSALM 19:1)
If you were the only person on earth, the earth would look exactly the same. The Himalayas would still have their drama and the Caribbean would still have its charm. The sun would still nestle behind the Rockies in the evenings and spray light on the desert in the mornings. If you were the sole pilgrim on this globe, God would not diminish its beauty one degree. Because he did it all for you.

God is our protection and our strength. He always help in time of trouble. 

             (PSALM 46:12)

Ever feel as if you need to get away? So did Jesus. (MARK 1:35).
Ever have so many demands that you can't stop for lunch? He can relate. (MARK 6:31). . . .
Do your friends ever let you down? When Christ needed help, his friends dozed off. (MATTHEW 26:40) . . . .
When you turn to him for help, he runs to you to help. Why? He knows how you feel. He's been there. . . . So go to him.

DO YOU SEE YOUR CALLING ???

DO YOU SEE YOUR CALLING !!!!
"Separated unto the gospel." (ROMANS 1:1)
Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the Gospel of God. The one thing that is all important is that the Gospel of God should be realized as the abiding Reality. Reality is not human goodness, nor holiness, nor heaven, not hell; but Redemption; and the need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker today. As workers we have to get used to the revelation that Redemption is the only Reality. Personal holiness is an effect, not a cause, and if we place our faith in human goodness, in the effect of Redemption, we shall go under when the test comes. Paul did not say he separated himself, but, "when it pleased God who separated me. . . ." Paul had not a hypersensitive interest in his own character. As long as our eyes are upon our own personal whiteness we shall never get near the reality of Redemption. Workers break down because their desire is for their own whiteness, and not for God. "Don't ask me to come into contact with the rugged reality of Redemption on behalf of the filth of human life as it is; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes." To talk in that way is a sign that the reality of the Gospel of God has not begun to touch me; there is no reckless abandon to God. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul is unconscious of himself, he is recklessly abandoned, separated by God for one purpose__to proclaim the Gospel of God (ROMANS 9:3)


THE DILEMMA OF OBEDIENCE !!!!!!!
"And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision"
               (1 SAMUEL 3:15)
God never speaks to us in startling ways, but in ways that are easy to misunderstand, and we say, "I wonder if that is God's voice?" Isaiah said that the Lord spake to him "with a strong hand," that is, by the pressure of circumstances. Nothing touches our lives but is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence? Get into the habit of saying, "Speak, Lord," and life will become a romance. Every time circumstances press, say, "Speak, Lord"; Recall the time when God did speak to you. Have you forgotten what He said? Was it Luke 11:13, or was it 1Thessalonians 5:23? As we listen, our ear gets acute, and, like Jesus, we shall hear God all the time. Shall I tell my "Eli" what God has shown to me? That is where the dilemma of obedience comes in. We disobey God by becoming amateur providences__I must shield "Eli,"  the best people we know. God did not tell Samuel to tell Eli; he had to decide that for himself. God's call to you may hurt your "Eli"; but if you try to prevent the suffering in another life, it will prove an obstruction between your soul and God. It is at your own peril that you prevent the cutting off of the right hand or the plucking out of the eye. Never ask the advice of another about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will nearly always side with Satan. "Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood."