Top 243 Quotes & Sayings by David Jeremiah - Page 4

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

Generational bonds are easily formed and rarely broken.

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.

Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

You may not be able to predict the time of a tornado, earthquake or the Lord's return. But you can know for a fact that He is coming back. Work today to share the escape route of God's grace with others, before the night cometh.

In the state of grace, there is no such thing as opportunity lost that cannot be found.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.

With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love.

Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don't allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires and deserves.

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.

I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

Though not everyone can attend seminary, every Christian has a seminary between two covers - the Holy Bible. God's Word is a school that trains us for the work He has planned for us on earth.

But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.

It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.

Grace means forgiveness-period.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.

Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.

The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through faith in the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who came to rescue this world.

We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.