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12 December, 2015

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 THE BIG BOOK OF CHRISTIAN QUOTES

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This collection of timeless quotes and Bible verses have been gathered with you in mind. You will have access to the writings of great Christians of early days and also great Christians of our times, right at your fingertips. It is my hope that your walk with God will be influenced in a very deep way as you go through those pages. 


Get this jam-packed treasure chest for less than the price of a cup of coffee, It is filled with a wide range of Bible verses listed by subjects. You will also get a section with Bible study helps along with a vast array of Christian quotes on various subjects such as: Blessings, character, children, marriage, contentment, faith, encouragement, friendship, life, love, God, the Church, Christ, salvation, The Holy Spirit, the soul, sin, virtues, God's Will, the spiritual life, spiritual walk, eternity, heaven, unbelief, spiritual gifts, leadership, eternal life, surrender, obedience ,loving God, marriage, prayer, relationship, and much more. Here is a list of names of puritans, classics and great theologians that you will find within the pages of this book: 
Brother Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, R. C. Sproul, Charles Colson, Charles Spurgeon, Dallas Willard, D. L Moody, D. Martyn LLoyd-Jones, DeWitt Talmage, Dietrick Bonhoeffer, E. M. Bounds, Henry Blackaby, John calvin, Ebenezer Erskine, F. B. Myer, F W Krummacher Francis Chan, G K Chesterton, J. C. Ryle, J. R. Miller, James Hudson Taylor, J. I. Packer, James Smith, Jerry bridges, John Piper, John Wesley, Johnathan Edwards, Leonard Ravenhill, Martin Luther, Mathew Henry, Paul Washer, John F MacArthur John Newton, Oswald Chambers, and much more 

19 December, 2014

What is Prayer?


Prayer is a COMING to God. Some Bible expressions are: "He who comes to God." "He who comes to me." "Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden." "He is able also to save those to the uttermost — who come unto God by him." "Come to the waters." "Come buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk." "Come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

God is the Christian's tender Father. In prayer, we should come to Him — as a child to its father. God loves this familiarity. This is not irreverence. We can come to Him familiarly — and yet reverently.
We can conceive of God both as the Supreme Ruler of the universe on His throne — and as our tender Father by our side. We should be so conscious of His being with us, that when we go into our prayer closets — we shall almost feel like holding the door ajar to admit Him! Then a little closer still, we can conceive of Him as being in our own hearts. We should turn our voice inward and speak to Him in our own heart. We see Him then, not only as a ruler in Heaven — but as a ruler in our own hearts. When we come to God, we should have this view of Him.

We should come to God in prayer and speak to Him, thanking Him or making a request of Him — as familiarly as with the closest friend. In true prayer, we talk personally with God; we embrace Him as a bosom companion; we see Him and hear Him and speak to Him and feel His presence — as we do that of a friend. This seeing and hearing and making Him a person with us — is in the province of faith. In prayer we close our eyes to things that are seen — and open them to things unseen. Prayer is a coming to God and embracing Him — a drinking in of His life and spirit, a leaning on His bosom, and feeling the beating of His heart warm with love.

Prayer is the Christian pilgrim's staff
To walk with God all day!

Enoch walked with God three hundred years. That long walk we do not suppose was a walk in silence — but a walk in converse. We do not know what was said, and it is not God's purpose that we should know — but we can come to Him, and He will teach us what to say.

Prayer is more than bending the knee and saying some words. It is the shutting of the closet door — and being ALONE WITH GOD. It is the coming of the soul, tremulous with love and holy awe — before His sacred presence; and at the same time — a talking to Him in childlike innocence and confidence.

The little child climbs upon its father's knee and, leaning upon his bosom, delighting itself in his companionship. There in the sacred silence, the heart seems to talk with heart, and the spirit of the child — is fashioned into the likeness of the parent! Just so, prayer is Heavenly Father and His redeemed child — in the most intimate converse and sweetest companionship. There he finds rest.

Wrapped in the bosom of his God,
His head upon his breast,
Forgetful of the cares of life,
He finds the perfect rest!


Charles Orr 
(1844-1913)


30 January, 2014

Charles Spurgeon Prayers - FREE Kindle

Excerpt from Spurgeon Prayer Kindle


Lord, You know there are some that have not yet begun to live for You, 
And the prayer is now offered that they may today be born again.  Others 
have been long in Your ways and are not weary of them.  We Sometimes 
wonder that You arc not weary of us, but assuredly we delight ourselves 
in the ways of holiness more than ever we did.  Oh! that our ways were 
directed to keep Your statutes without slipping or flaws.  We wish we 
were perfectly obedient in thought, and word, and deed, entirely sanctified.
We shall never be satisfied till we wake up in Christ's likeness, the likeness 
of perfection itself.  

Oh! wake us to this perfection, we beseech You.  May experience teach us
more and more how to avoid occasions of sin.  May we grow more watchful; 
may we have a greater supremacy over our own spirit; may we be able to 
control ourselves under all circumstances, and so act that if the Master were
to come at any moment we should not be ashamed to give our account in His hands.

Lord, we are not what we want to be.  This is our sorrow.  Oh! that You 
would, by Your Spirit, help us in the walks of life to adorn the doctrine 
of God our Saviour in all things.  As men of business, as work-people, as 
parents, as children, as servants, as masters, whatever we may be, may we 
be such that Christ may look on us with pleasure.  May His joy be in us, 
for then only can our joy be full.

Dear Savior, we are Your disciples, and You are teaching us the art of 
living; but we are very dull and very slow, and beside, there is such a 
bias in our corrupt nature, and there are such examples in the world, and 
the influence of an ungodly generation tells even on those that know You. 
O, dear Saviour, do not be impatient with us, but still teach us at Your 
feet, till at last we shall have learned some of the sublime lessons of 
self-sacrifice, of meekness, humility, fervor, boldness, and love which 
Your life is fit to teach us.  O Lord, we beseech You to mold us in Your 
own image.  Let us live in You and live like You.  Let us gaze on Your 
glory till we are transformed by the sight and become Christlike among 
the sons of men.

Lord, hear the confessions of any that have backslidden, who are rather 
marring Your image than perfecting it.  Hear the prayers of any that are 
conscious of great defects during the past.  Give them peace of mind by 
pardon, but give them strength of mind also to keep clear of such 
mischief in the future.  O Lord, we are sighing and crying more and more 
after Yourself.  The more we have of You the more we want You; the more 
we grow like You; the more we perceive our defects, and the more we pine 
after a higher standard to reach even to perfection itself.

Oh! help us.  Spirit of the living God, continue still to work in us.  
Let the groanings that cannot be uttered be stilled within our Spirit, 
for these are growing pains, and we shall grow while we can sigh and cry, 
while we can confess and mourn; yet this is not without a blessed 
hopefulness that He that has begun a good work in us will perfect it in 
the day of Christ.

Bless, we pray You, at this time, the entire church of God in every part 
of the earth.  Prosper the work and service of Christian people, however 
they endeavor to spread the kingdom of Christ.  Convert the heathen; 
enlighten those that are in any form of error.  Bring the entire church 
back to the original form of Christianity.  Make her first pure and then 
she shall be united.  O Savior, let Your kingdom come.  Oh! that You would 
reign and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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07 January, 2014

Coming up From the Wilderness- From Volume 5



For My New Year's Resolution!

My prayer  for you and me today is that God would lavish our hearts with His deep tenderness, and saturate our soul with His love and patience, that He would do whatever it takes to refine and mold  us completely to His image.... 

To find out why this short prayer, read January 1 post


This is an excerpt from the new uploaded Kindle which contains all the 11 volumes of J. C. Philpot's quotes

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"Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
 leaning upon her Beloved?" Song of Solomon 8:5

To come up from the wilderness, is to come up out 
of OURSELVES; for we are ourselves the wilderness. 
It is our wilderness heart that makes the world 
what it is to us . . .
  our own barren frames; 
  our own bewildered minds; 
  our own worthlessness and inability;
  our own lack of spiritual fruitfulness;
  our own trials, temptations, and exercises;
  our own hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

In a word, it is what passes in our own bosom 
that makes the world to us a dreary desert. 

Carnal people find the world no wilderness. It is an 
Eden to them! Or at least they try hard to make it so. 
They seek all their pleasure from, and build all their 
happiness upon it. Nor do they dream of any other 
harvest of joy and delight, but what may be repaid 
in this 'happy valley', where youth, health, and good 
spirits are ever imagining new scenes of gratification.

But the child of grace, exercised with a thousand 
difficulties, passing through many temporal and 
spiritual sorrows, and inwardly grieved with his own 
lack of heavenly fruitfulness, finds the wilderness 
within

But he still comes up out of it, and this he does 
by looking upward with believing eyes to Him who 
alone can bring him out. 

He comes up out of his own righteousness, and 
shelters himself under Christ's righteousness.

He comes up out of his own strength, 
and trusts to Christ's strength.

He comes up out of his own wisdom, 
and hangs upon Jesus' wisdom.

He comes up out of his own tempted, tried, 
bewildered, and perplexed condition, to find rest 
and peace in the finished work of the Son of God.

And thus he comes up out of the wilderness of 
self, not actually, but experimentally. Every desire 
of his soul to be delivered from his 'wilderness
sickening sight' that he has of sin and of himself 
as a sinner. Every aspiration after Jesus, every 
longing look, earnest sigh, piteous cry, or laboring 
groan, all are a coming up from the wilderness. 

His turning his back upon an ungodly world; renouncing 
its pleasures, its honors, its pride, and its ambition; 
seeking communion with Jesus as his chief delight; 
and accounting all things but loss and rubbish for 
the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus his Lord 
as revealed to his soul by the power of God; this,
also, is coming up from the wilderness.

When we gaze upon the lifeless corpse

From the cradle to the coffin, affliction and sorrow are
the appointed lot of man. He comes into the world with 
a wailing cry, and he often leaves it with an agonizing 
groan! Rightly is this earth called "a valley of tears," for 
it is wet with them in infancy, youth, manhood, and old 
age. In every land, in every climate, scenes of misery 
and wretchedness everywhere meet the eye, besides 
those deeper griefs and heart-rending sorrows which lie 
concealed from all observation. So that we may well say 
of the life of man that, like Ezekiel's scroll, it is "written 
with lamentations, and mourning and woe." 

But this is not all. The scene does not end here! 

We see up to death, but we do not see beyond death. 

To see a man die without Christ is like standing 
at a distance, and seeing a man fall from a lofty 
cliff—we see him fall, but we do not see the crash 
on the rocks below. 

So we see an unsaved man die, but when we gaze 
upon the lifeless corpse, we do not see how his soul 
falls with a mighty crash upon the rock of God's eternal 
justice! When his temporal trials come to a close, his 
eternal sorrows only begin! After weeks or months of 
sickness and pain, the pale, cold face may lie in calm 
repose under the coffin lid; when the soul is only just 
entering upon an eternity of woe! 

But is it all thus dark and gloomy both in life and death? 
Is heaven always hung with a canopy of black? Are there 
no beams of light, no rays of gladness, that shine through 
these dark clouds of affliction, misery, and woe that are 
spread over the human race?

Yes! there is one point in this dark scene out of which
beams of light and rays of glory shine! "God did not 
appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation 
through our Lord Jesus Christ."  1 Thessalonians 5:9

There, on the other side, is my solitary soul

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gains the
 whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what can
 a man give in exchange for his soul?" Mt. 16:26

Here is my scale of profit and loss.

I have a soul to be saved or lost.

What then shall I give in exchange for my soul? 

What am I profited if I gain the 
whole world and lose my soul? 

This deep conviction of a soul to be saved 
or lost lies at the root of all our religion. 

Here, on one side, is the WORLD and all . . .
  its profits 
  its pleasures,
  its charms,
  its smiles,
  its winning ways,
  its comforts,
  its luxuries,
  its honors, 
to gain which is the grand struggle of human life.

There, on the other side, is my solitary SOUL,
to live after death, forever and ever, when the 
world and all its pleasures and profits will sink 
under the wrath of the Almighty.

And this dear soul of mine, my very self, my
only self, my all, must be lost or saved. 

Even your own relatives think you are almost insane

"The Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, 
 because it neither sees Him nor knows Him." 
    John 14:17

The world—that is, the world dead in sin, and the 
world dead in profession—men destitute of the life 
and power of God—must have something that it can 
see. And, as heavenly things can only be seen by 
heavenly eyes, they cannot receive the things which 
are invisible. 

Now this explains why a religion that presents itself 
with a degree of beauty and grandeur to the natural 
eye will always be received by the world; while a . . .
  spiritual,
  internal,
  heartfelt and
  experimental 
religion will always be rejected.

The world can receive a religion that consists of . . .
  forms
  rites, and 
  ceremonies

These are things seen.

Beautiful buildings,
painted windows,
pealing organs,
melodious choirs,
the pomp and parade of an earthly priesthood,
and a whole apparatus of 'religious ceremony', 
carry with them something that the natural eye can 
see and admire. The world receives all this 'external 
religion' because it is suitable to the natural mind 
and intelligible to the reasoning faculties.

But the . . .
  quiet
  inward
  experimental
  divine religion,
which presents no attractions to the outward eye, but 
is wrought in the heart by a divine operation—the world 
cannot receive this—because it presents nothing that 
the natural eye can rest upon with pleasure, or is 
adapted to gratify their general idea of what religion 
is or should be.

Do not marvel, then, that worldly professors despise a 
religion wrought in the soul by the power of God. Do not 
be surprised if even your own relatives think you are 
almost insane, when you speak of the consolations of 
the Spirit, or of the teachings of God in your soul. They 
cannot receive these things, for they have no experience 
of them; and being such as are altogether opposed to 
the carnal mind, they reject them with enmity and scorn.