Velveteen Giraffe

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Notes Sunday morning reminder

“The heart must have in it the grace of prayer to sing the praise of God. Spiritual singing is not to be done by musical taste or talent, but by the grace of God in the heart. Nothing helps praise so mightily as a gracious revival of true religion in the church. The conscious presence of God inspires song…God’s presence begets singing and thanksgiving, while the absence of God from our congregations is the death of song, or, which amounts to the same, makes the singing lifeless, cold and formal. His conscious presence in our churches would bring back the days of praise and would restore the full chorus of song.”

—E.M. Bounds

May it be so :)

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My weakness needs His might.

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"Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It’s a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don’t want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel."

John Piper, God is the Gospel (via cafespirit)

(Source: meggielynne, via cafespirit)

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"O that now I might decrease!
O that all I am might cease!
Let me into nothing fall!
Let my Lord be all in all."

E.M. Bounds

#humility

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"Let the world their virtue boast,
Their works of righteousness;
I, a wretch undone and lost,
Am freely saved by grace;
Other title I disclaim,
This, only this, is all my plea,
I the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me."

E.M. Bounds

#humility

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Notes humility

“Happy are they who have no righteousness of their own to plead and no goodness of their own which to boast. Humility flourishes in the soil of a true and deep sense of our sinfulness and our nothingness. Nowhere does humility grow so rankly and so rapidly and shine so brilliantly, as when it feels all guilty, confesses all sin, and trusts all grace. ‘I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.’ That is praying ground, the ground of humility, low down, far away seemingly, but in reality brought nigh by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. God dwells in the lowly places. He makes such lowly places really the high places to the praying soul.”

“Humility is just feeling little because we are little. Humility is realizing our unworthiness because we are unworthy, the feeling and declaring ourselves sinners because we are sinners. Kneeling well becomes us as the attitude of prayer, because it betokens humility.”

-E.M. Bounds

#humility

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Gold does not suffer more heat than is needed to make it pure

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"Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things,
And revive me in Your way."

Psalm 119:37

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"You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ."

Charles Spurgeon (via cafespirit)

(Source: raisingmywhiteflag, via cafespirit)

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"The best way to guard your heart is to have it filled with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Todd Friel (via cafespirit)

(via nanceeeee)

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Notes God's Will: THE HUMILITY OF MEPHIBOSHETH - BY BOBBY MCDONALD

know-gods-will:

Lamentations 3:39
“What is man or any mortal to complain about anything in light of his sins?”

In Lamentations 3:39, the Bible commands us never to complain about anything because we have no right to “in light of our sins”. As sinners, we have to see that we don’t deserve anything – all the good…

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Still.

Text Integrity

“The lips of truth cannot promise more than the hands of love will surely give.”
-Spurgeon

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"Dear child, God does not say today,”Be strong”;
He knows your strength is spent; He knows how long
The road has been, how weary you have grown,
For He who walked the earthly roads alone,
Each bogging lowland, and each rugged hill,
Can understand, and so He says, “Be still,
And know that I am God.” The hour is late,
And you must rest awhile, and you must wait
Until life’s empty reservoirs fill up
As slow rain fills an empty upturned cup.
Hold up your cup, dear child, for God to fill.
He only asks today that you be still."

Grace Noll Crowell

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"See God in everything, and God will calm and color all that thou dost see! It may be that the circumstances of our sorrows will not be removed, their condition will remain unchanged; but if Christ, as Lord and Master of our life, is brought into our grief and gloom, “HE will compass us about with songs of deliverance.” To see HIM, and to be sure that His wisdom cannot err, His power cannot fail, His love can never change; to know that even His direst dealings with us are for our deepest spiritual gain, is to be able to say, in the midst of bereavement, sorrow, pain, and loss, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath, taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."

L. B. Cowman