Perspective

Perspective: from Latin perspicere, to see through…

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us. Donald Williams

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. Helen Keller

Tonight, at the Wednesday night Bible study and Prayer time we are going to look at “perspective” from Luke 24. This will be a facinating study on how the early diciples viewed the events of the crucifixion from their limited perspective.

We can learn from their mistakes. I hope to see you there!

Bro. Gordon

 

Abraham Lincoln on Prayer and Fasting

During the Civil War, after issuing his Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln set a National Day of ‎Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, MARCH 30, 1863, stating:
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‎”It is the duty of nations…to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins…with ‎assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy…‎

The awful calamity of civil war…may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins.”
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Lincoln continued: “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven…We have grown in numbers, ‎wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious ‎Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly ‎imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and ‎virtue of our own.”
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Lincoln concluded: “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of ‎redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for…forgiveness.”‎

-Steve Sharples

 

Developing a Burden for Evangelism

“If you want to develop a burden for the lost, go out and talk to the lost and find out how lost they really are. If you desire to have the crucial nature of evangelism branded on your heart, go out and do it, and you will become convinced of just how crucial it is. If you want to develop the conviction that Jesus does indeed change lives, take His life-changing message to others and see if this isn’t true.”        – Mark McCloskey (Tell It Often, Tell It Well)

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Brevity of Life

A famous quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth on the brevity of life. Compare it with the theme of the Book of Ecclesiastes life is short, all is vanity:

“Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.”

Luke Small

 

Conquering Defeating Thoughts

In order for old defeating thoughts to be invaded, conquered, and replaced by new, victorious ones, a process of reconstruction must transpire.

The best place I know to begin this process of mental cleansing is with the all-important discipline of memorizing Scripture. I realize it doesn’t sound very sophisticated or intellectual, but God’s Book is full of powerful ammunition! And dislodging negative and demoralizing thoughts requires aggressive action. I sometimes refer to it as a mental assault.

Charles Swindoll

 

WOW!!

I love this quote:

“A girl should get so lost in God that a guy has to seek God to find her”

-Dannah Gresh

Imagine if this were true in the lives of our students!

 

Quote worth remembering when you are discouraged in sharing Jesus

“To make converts in Tibet is similar to going into a cave and trying to rob a lioness of her cubs.”

Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, 1892

 

Prayer quote of Corrie Ten Boon

“A man is powerful on his knees”

 

Prayer Quote of John Calvin

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

 

We are fearfully and wonderfully made…

A single strand of human DNA would fill a thousand-volume encyclopedia comprising six hundred thousand pages with five hundred words on each page. Yet the individual marvelously transforms the information into a person and personality that is his or her own. Ravi Zacharias