Find Time!!

He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will find one day that he has time to be sick. 

 He who has no time to pray must find time to die. 

 He who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin. 

 He who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail. 

 [The Preachers Book]

Psalm 90:12 ...  So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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You Keep Track of All My Sorrows!

Not a single sigh for past sins, escapes His ears; not a groan of the heart, but is heard by Him; not a tear falls to the ground, but He puts it into His bottle. Not a breathing of the soul after His holiness; not a loathing of our own unholiness; not an act of self-abasement or humbling ourselves for sin; not a yearning of the soul for a purity which it has not; not a single act of mercy; not an act of self-denial; every fragment of our poor sorrow and service God gathers and stores up. Nothing is forgotten or lost! 

[The Preachers Book]

Psalm 56:8 ... Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? ❤

Preachers!

A preacher's life should be a commentary of his doctrine; his practice should be a counterpart of his sermons. Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.  [Thomas Brooks] 

We preach to people who must live forever in Heaven or Hell; with God or devils; in an eternity of joy or of torment. [Thomas Doolittle] 

An over-attachment to human learning has been the very bane of vital, spiritual, experimental godliness.  [John Newton] 

The chief means for attaining wisdom and suitable gifts and graces for the Christian ministry, are the Holy Scriptures and prayer. [John Newton] 

A faithful preacher is a rare creature. And, like a diamond, as precious as he is rare. [Charles Spurgeon] A word to a minister, is worth a word to three or four thousand souls sometimes. [M. Cheyne] 

There is not a sermon which is heard but it sets us nearer to Heaven or Hell. [John Preston, puritan] The preaching of the Word is that lattice where Jesus looks forth and shows Himself to His saints. [Thomas Watson] 

Preaching is that ordinance of God, sanctified for the begetting of faith, for the opening of the understanding, and for the drawing of the will and affections to Christ. [Richard Sibbes] 

Sound doctrine and holy living are the marks of true pastors. [J.C. Ryle] 

The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words. Their tongues may persuade but their lives command. [Thomas Brooks] 

A man ought to preach only that which he has learned from God, in the secret exercise of prayer, and in meditation on the Scriptures. [Quesnel, 1634-1719] 

Much reading and thinking may make a popular minister. But it takes much secret prayer to make a powerful preacher. [John Berridge] 

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing. [J.H. Jowett]

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You Keep Track of All My Sorrows

Not a single sigh for past sins, escapes His ears; not a groan of the heart, but is heard by Him; not a tear falls to the ground, but He puts it into His bottle!

Not a breathing of the soul after His holiness; not a loathing of our own unholiness;  not an act of self-abasement, or humbling ourselves for sin; not a yearning of the soul for a purity which it has not; not a single act of mercy; not one act of self-denial;every fragment of our poor sorrow and service

God gathers and stores up! Nothing is forgotten or lost!

[The Preachers Book]

Psalm 56:8 ... Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?❤

The Lot of A Christian

If I have no Cross to bear today, I shall not advance Heavenwards. To have no Cross, to lie quietly on a bed of down, may seem a very sweet existence but pleasant ease and rest are not the lot of a Christian.

Alas! for those who have no daily Cross! What will be my Cross today? How bear it? Dear Cross, you are helping me on, how ought I to love you!

To carry the Cross, is to join ourselves to the Savior, to company with Him.

[The Preachers Book]

Luke 14:27 ... And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.


Matthew 10:38 ... And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.


Mark 8:34 ... And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.❤

He Redeemed Me!

The tears of a slave girl just going to be put up for sale, drew the notice of a gentleman as he passed through the auction mart of a southern slave state. The other slaves of the same group, standing in a line, for sale like herself, did not seem to care about it while each knock of the hammer made her shiver.

The gentleman stopped to ask why she wept, and was told that the others were used to such things, and might even be glad for a change from a hard, harsh master but that she had been brought up with much kindness by a good owner, and she was terrified to think who might buy her.

"What is her price?" the stranger asked. He stood a moment in deep thought when he heard the greatness of the ransom, but paid it nevertheless.

But no joy came to the poor slave girl's face when he told her that she was free. She had been born a slave, and knew not what freedom meant. Her tears fell fast on the signed parchment which her deliverer brought to prove it to her. She only looked at him with fear. At last he prepared to go on his way, and as he told her what she must do when he was gone, it began to dawn on her what freedom was.

With sudden joy, she cried out, "I will follow him! I will serve him all my days!" And to every reason urged against it, she only cried, "He redeemed me! He redeemed me! He redeemed me!"

When strangers afterwards visited that master's house, and noticed, as all did, the loving, constant service of the glad-hearted girl, and asked why she was so eager with unbidden service night and day she had but one answer, and she loved to give it: "He redeemed me! He redeemed me!"

So may it be with us. When any note the joy in our looks, the love in our voice, the freedom of our service, we have but one answer, "He redeemed me!"

[The Preachers Book]

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Psalm 71:23 ... My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

Galatians 3:13 ... Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

Revelation 5:9 ... And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;❤