The Overflow of Heart

“Thy soul must overflow if thou
Another soul wouldst reach;
It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.”
~Horatius Bonar,
1808-1889

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Recommended Link: http://www.lakeroadchapel.org/

"Read part of the life of Jonathan Edwards. How feeble does my spark of Christianity appear beside such a sun! But even his was a borrowed light, and the same source is still open to enlighten me." ~Robert Murray McCheyne, 1813-1843

"Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity."
~Robert Murray McCheyne

“In proportion as a church is holy,
in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.”
~ C.H. Spurgeon

"If Any Man Thirst"

Souls of men have been thirsty ever since Adam turned his back on God. Thirsty for rest; thirsty for peace; thirsty for eternal life; thirsty for God. The greatest and the least; the wisest and the most simple; the outcast and the Pharisee, they all know this thirst. Here was a man who dared to cry, "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink." If He were only a man, these words were among the most blasphemous ever spoken. Had any other man but Christ said these words, he would be either pitied as a madman, or scorned as a most notorious blasphemer. No one feels that way about Him. These words from His lips carry with them the simple conviction of truth, so that without the least effort we bow our hearts to their blessed proclamation. But what wonderful words they are! Think of Him being able to quench the thirst of any man any where! This stranger from Galilee! this "carpenter" from Nazareth declaring He could meet the deep desires of the souls of men! How utterly stupendous the declaration! How absolutely God-like the promises! Surely, never man spake like this man.

~taken from "Our Lord Jesus Christ: A Plant of Renown" by Leonard Sheldrake

A Burden for Souls

“The more living experience there is of Christ,
and the stronger the faith of believers in the truth of his word,
the greater will be their concern for the conversion of others.”
~Iain Murray

My Favorites: Book Suggestion

To Die is Gain: The Triumph of John and Betty Stam
by Mrs. Howard Taylor

Thy Will for My Life

"Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes,
all my own desires and hopes,
and accept Thy will for my life.
I give myself, my life,
my all, utterly to Thee to be Thine forever.
Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit.
Use me as Thou wilt, send me where Thou wilt,
and work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost now and forever."
~written by Betty Stam at age 18,
missionary to China

All This For You

Look! Look! Look with solemn eye through the shades that part us from the world of spirits, and see that house of misery which men call hell! You cannot endure the spectacle. Remember that in that place there are spirits forever paying their debt to divine justice; but though some of them have been for these four thousand years sweltering in the flame, they are no nearer a discharge than when they began; and when ten thousand times ten thousand years shall have rolled away, they will no more have made satisfaction to God for their guilt than they have done up till now.
And now can you grasp the thought of the greatness of your Savior's mediation when He paid your debt and paid it all at once; so that there now remaineth not one farthing of debt owing from Christ's people to their God, except a debt of love? Eternity would not have been long enough to paying our debt, yet in one moment Christ did pay it all, so that the man who believes is entirely justified from all guilt, and set free from all punishment, through what Jesus hath done. Think, then, how great His atonement if He has done all this for you.
~C. H. Spurgeon

A Burden for Souls

“The more living experience there is of Christ,
and the stronger the faith of believers in the truth of his word,
the greater will be their concern for the conversion of others.”
~Iain Murray

The one concern of the devil is to keep the saint from praying.
He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion.
He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
~Samuel Chadwick

"If any man thirst"

Souls of men have been thirsty ever since Adam turned his back on God. Thirsty for rest; thirsty for peace; thirsty for eternal life; thirsty for God. The greatest and the least; the wisest and the most simple; the outcast and the Pharisee, they all know this thirst. Here was a man who dared to cry, "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink." If He were only a man, these words were among the most blasphemous ever spoken. Had any other man but Christ said these words, he would be either pitied as a madman, or scorned as a most notorious blasphemer. No one feels that way about Him. These words from His lips carry with them the simple conviction of truth, so that without the least effort we bow our hearts to their blessed proclamation. But what wonderful words they are! Think of Him being able to quench the thirst of any man any where! This stranger from Galilee! this "carpenter" from Nazareth declaring He could meet the deep desires of the souls of men! How utterly stupendous the declaration! How absolutely God-like the promises! Surely, never man spake like this man.

~taken from
"Our Lord Jesus Christ: A Plant of Renown"
by Leonard Sheldrake

“He who would learn to pray well,
must first study God’s Word,
and store it in his memory and thought.”
~ E. M. Bounds

"Religion is man searching for God;
Christianity is God seeking man,
manifesting Himself to him,
drawing Himself unto him."
~Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
Life in the Spirit, pg 380

Go & Tell

“We must go everywhere, and tell everyone.
There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.”
~Betsie Ten Boom

"Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only the shorter it is, the better."
~ C.H. Spurgeon

It Will Take Your Life

“How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.“? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! “We’re just trying to attract people and then we’ll gradually bring them in further and further.” That is what the cults do, that’s not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism [in most churches today].”
~Paul Washer