Feb. 16 2012

Encouraging Quotes

"Are you passing through a night of sorrow?  This thing is from Me.  I am the Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief.  I have let earthly comforters fail you that by turning to me you may obtain everlasting consolation.  (II Thes. 2:16-17)  Have you longed to do some great work for me but instead have been laid aside on a bed of pain and weakness?  This thing is from Me.  I could not get your attention in your busy days and I want to teach you some of My deepest lessons.  "They also serve who only stand and wait."  Some of my greatest workers are those shut out from active service, that they may learn to yield the weapon of all prayer.

This day I place in your hand this pot of holy oil.  Make use of it free my child.  Let every circumstance that arises, every words that pains you, every interruption that would make you impatient, every revelation of your weakness be anointed with it.  The sting will go as you learn to see me in all things."  Streams in the Desert - Feb. 3

"A visitor at a school for the deaf and dumb was writing questions on the blackboard for the children.  By and by he wrote this sentence:  "Why has God made me to hear and speak, and made you deaf and dumb? "

The awful sentence fell upon the little ones like a fierce blow in the face.  They sat palsied before that dreadful, "Why?"  And then a little girl arose.

Her lip was trembling.  Her eyes were swimming with tears.  Straight to the board she walked, and picking up the crayons, wrote with firm hand these precious words:  "Even so, Father for it seemed good in they sight!"  What a reply!  It reaches up and lays hold of an eternal truth upon which the maturest believer as well as the youngest child of God may alike securely rest- the truth that God is your Father. 

Do you mean that?  Do you really and fully believe that?  When you do, then your dove of faith will no longer wander in weary unrest, but will settle down forever in its eternal resting place of peace.  "Your Father!"  I can still believe that a day comes for all of us, however far off it may be, when we shall understand; when these tragedies that now black and darken the very air of heaven for us, will sink into their places in a scheme so august, so magnificent, so joyful, that we shall laugh for wonder and delight."  Arthur Christopher Bacon.  Streams in the Desert. Feb. 12

"The very fact of trial proves that there is something in us very precious to our Lord; else He would not spend so much pains and time on us.  Christ would not test us if He did not see the precious ore of faith migled in the rocky matrix of our nature; and it is to bring this out into purity and beauty that He forces us through the fiery ordeal. 

Be patient, O sufferer!  The result will more than compensate for all our trials, when we see how they wrought out the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.  To have one word of God's commendation, to be honored before the holy angels; the be glorified in Christ, so as to be better able to flash His glory on Himself- at!  that will more than repay for all."  Streams in the Desert- Feb. 16