“Look at the world today.
There are no political solutions to spiritual problems… ”
– Steve Quayle
(source)
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“If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes.”
– Corrie Ten Boom
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“Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing,
leading to surrender and obedience
to the commandments of Christ.”
– Aiden Wilson Tozer
1 John 4:16,17:
“We know and have BELIEVED the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains IN LOVE remains IN GOD, and God remains in him. In this, love has been made PERFECT among us, that we may have BOLDNESS in the day of judgment, because as he is, even SO ARE WE in this world.”
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“Knowing the Bible is one thing. Knowing the Author is another.”
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Very well said — and I prove this at ToBeFree (see Related, below)
Church history in most Christian schools and seminaries has been altered too.
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“What if I told you that the version of History you were taught in school, was heavily revised to favor your own nations’ agenda while hiding its crimes and in doing so fostered an unrealistic sense of false patriotism used to manufacture your allegiance to a corporate entity masquerading as your government?”
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And in church history taught in America, anything to do with charismatic gifts is often not in the texts and taught by teachers. I witnessed this firsthand while in seminary.
My tobefree.press site has 7,000 posts. Many of the categories list articles proving the above statement, as to what’s really going on in America, why and how we’re getting jacked, what we’ve really done to others, who pulls the strings, FOX News is spin central, etc.. Real History has 400 posts. Help yourself. It’s free. (Categories in the pull-down menu present 10 posts per page; latest appear first)
Here is just one from ToBeFree, showing why they hate US:
Years ago, Leonard Ravenhill said, “One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”
I want to be that simple soul. How about you?
– Michael Brown
From:
‘ONE’ will happen!
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“There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”
– James Hudson Taylor
Bonhoeffer summarized Luther’s view of the human situation (and his own) in Luther’s famous formula simul justus et peccator (both justified and a sinner). He realized that this dialectical reading of Paul was open to abuses, as evident in the Lutheran church of his day. Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship is an attempt to address these abuses by differentiating between “cheap grace”, the grace that Lutheranism has tended to preach based upon Luther’s doctrine of justification, and “costly grace”, the grace that demands obedience and true discipleship (CD 45-48). According to Bonhoeffer, the Reformation understanding of costly grace turned into cheap grace when “the justification of the sinner in the world degenerated into the justification of sin and the world” (CD 53). The true proclamation of justification, justification of the sinner, is the call to obedient, costly discipleship, not an invitation to passive assent to a doctrine. In fact, justification is costly obedience: “Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes” (CD 69). Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” – Jesus in Mt. 7:21
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“In your life, where have you given way to the lies that the world teaches? Lies are usually subversive. Before you know it, lies can become so much a part of your worldview that they disciple you to an imbalanced view of the gospel.”
– unknown worship leader (source)
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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The average American minister prays…4 minutes a day —
and you wonder why the church is powerless.”
– R.T. Kendall
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
– Flannery O’Connor
The closer I’ve gotten to God the more I realize how totally trustable He is, and I know I’ll never be disappointed with any part of who He really is.
Those who doubt God’s goodness are talking about Someone they don’t really know well enough. They stopped seeking, and started complaining, and some have let themselves get a root of bitterness (Heb. 12) along the way.
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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
– Corrie Ten Boom
“Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”
– Corrie Ten Boom
“A plane ride isn’t a miracle. Ministry always starts at home. Were called to do the works of the Kingdom where we live before we’re sent to other places.”
– John Wimber
“I think it’s a dangerous gift to be absolutely beautiful.”
– Actress Jeanne Moreau
From the film, French Beauty
“Putting your head in the sand will not save your backside.”
– unknown origin,
just mentioned by John B. Wells on ‘Coast to Coast AM’
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Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers
[WordPOWER!] 2 Peter 3: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
[FreedomQuote] ”I Would Rather Know The Ugly Truth Than A Beautiful Lie”
[FreedomQuote] “It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.”
Gandhi: Widespread Belief Doesn’t Make an Error True
“Truth … lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.”
“If Americans don’t concentrate in prayer,
they’ll concentrate in concentration camps.”
– Leonard Ravenhill, decades ago
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Book is available at: offspringpublishers.org
Leonard’s son, David Ravenhill speaks here:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfn-xvlMbc]Leonard Ravenhill – [America Is Too Young To Die]
Published on May 29, 2012
This straightforward message is meant to avert the untimely death of a “child” among nations. In a time when nations all over the world point at America calling her everything but Christian, the voice of a “minor” prophet once again speaks a major truth: “It is time to quit playing church.” The author exhorts modern-day clergy to be prophets instead of puppets, agonizers instead of organizers. In spite of this age of mass-communication, he says we are failing to save the contented from the curse of compromise, imitation and professionalism. The book is available at:http://www.offspringpublishers.org
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Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) was an English Christian Evangelist and author who focused on the subjects of prayer and revival. He is best known for challenging the modern church (through his books and sermons) to compare itself to the early Christian Church as chronicled in the Book of Acts. His most notable book is Why Revival Tarries which has sold over a million copies worldwide.[1] (Wikipedia)
From: Charisma
10 Quotes to Rock Your World
Over the years, I have committed to memory numerous quotes that have stirred my heart and impacted my life, and in the days of the Brownsville Revival, we used to post some of the best, most succinct quotes on the large marquees in front our ministry school.
Today, with the explosion of social media, we can post and tweet these quotes day and night, to the edification and even transformation of many. Here are 10 of my all-time favorites:
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2. “How shall I feel at the judgment, if multitudes of missed opportunities pass before me in full review, and all my excuses prove to be disguises of my cowardice and pride” (W.E. Sangster). …
3. “The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—‘off with his head!’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven” (Joseph Parker). This quote was another of the jewels found in Why Revival Tarries, and it ultimately inspired Keith Green to write the song “I Pledge My Head to Heaven.” Are you really ready to preach repentance?
4. “When I really enjoy God I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness the more unquenchable. O this pleasing pain. It makes my soul press after God” (David Brainerd). People who are sick sometimes lose their appetite, and when the appetite returns, it is often a sign of health. The same applies spiritually. How hungry are you? That says a lot about your spiritual health.
5. “Satan is so much more in earnest than we are—he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost” (Amy Carmichael).
So it’s not that real Christianity won’t satisfy here on Earth (not just in heaven), it’s that ‘ONE’ isn’t even being tried.
And we’re settling for chicken feed.
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“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting;
it has been found difficult and not tried.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“If the whole church goes off into deception,
that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.”
– Leonard Ravenhill
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“Your ministry is your function, not your rank.”
– Rick Joyner
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”
– Leonard Ravenhill
Jesus in John 15:18-25
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Jesus in Luke 6:20-26
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
“Until people understand we’re involved in a spiritual battle being played out on a political battlefield — we got a one party system, and everything else is a fraud — until people understand that, nothing really makes sense today.”
– Dr. Stanley Monteith — Radio Liberty, 10/21/13 Hour 3
“They think they’re protected by not caring,
but their ‘not caring’ is what’s allowing the evil to take over.”
– Alex Jones
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From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth and Truth-tellers
“Too many people who ask for counsel
are really looking for an accomplice to what they believe.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page
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2 Peter 3: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
[FreedomQuote] ”I Would Rather Know The Ugly Truth Than A Beautiful Lie”
[FreedomQuote] “It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.”
Gandhi: Widespread Belief Doesn’t Make an Error True
“Truth … lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.”
“Weak people will find it hard to be sincere,
as there are always too many opinions to please.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page
“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
― Richard Evans
“One who refuses to change their opinion proves they love themself
more than they love truth.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page