billy graham marian wright edelman romans 12:1-2
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GET YOUR FIRE BACK. IT’S NOT
OVER UNTIL GOD SAYS IT’S OVER. START BELIEVING
AGAIN. START DREAMING AGAIN. START PURSUING WHAT GOD PUT IN
YOUR HEART.
Billy Graham
“I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing
thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly.”
Billy Graham
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others
are often stiffened.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not
something you do in your spare time.”
Romans 12:1-2“1Therefore, I urge you, brothers
and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your
true and proper worship.”
Romans 12:1-2“2 Do not conform to the pattern
of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what
God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
The Moment that Matters - Journal
“What is the chief end of man?
A Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him
forever.”
Matthew 16:27“For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he
will reward each person according to what they have
done.”
Matthew 16:23-25“23 Jesus said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a
stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns
of God, but merely human concerns.”
Matthew 16:23-25“24 Then Jesus said to his
disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny
themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For
whoever wants to save their life
will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
Hebrews 11“ 1-2 The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in
God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything
that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t
see...” [The Message]
Hebrews 11“…The act of faith is what
distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd. 3 By faith,
we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what
we see created by what we don’t see.” [The Message]
Hebrews 11“7 By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was
warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what
he was told. The result? His family was saved...”
[The Message]
Hebrews 11“... His act of faith drew a sharp
line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the
rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became
intimate with God.”[The Message]
Hebrews 11“13-16 Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the
distance, waved their greeting, and…” [The Message]
Hebrews 11
“…accepted the fact that they were transients in this world.
People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for
their true home...”[The Message]
Hebrews 11“…If they were homesick for the
old country, they could have gone back any time they
wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—
heaven country...”[The Message]
Hebrews 11
“... You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City
waiting for them.”
[The Message]
Hebrews 11“24-28 By faith, Moses, when
grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God’s
people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with
the oppressors...” [The Message]
Hebrews 11“…He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than
Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. By an act of faith, he
turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind
rage...”[The Message]
Hebrews 11“…He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he
kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on
each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn
wouldn’t touch them.”[The Message]
Hebrews 11“29 By an act of faith, Israel
walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned. 30 By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days,
and the walls fell flat.”[The Message]
Hebrews 11
“ 31 By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the
spies and escaped the destruction that came on those
who refused to trust God.”[The Message]
Hebrews 11
“32-38 I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak,
Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . …”
[The Message]
Hebrews 11“…Through acts of faith, they
toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for
themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and
sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, …”[The Message]
Hebrews 11“…won battles, routed alien
armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something
better: resurrection. …”[The Message]
Hebrews 11“…Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and
dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed
in two, murdered in cold blood; ...”
[The Message]
Hebrews 11“…stories of vagrants
wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t
deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the
cruel edges of the world.”[The Message]
Hebrews 11
“39-40 Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith
were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had
a better plan for us: ...”[The Message]
Hebrews 11
“…that their faith and our faith would come together to make
one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart
from ours.”[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17“5-9 Who do you think Paul is,
anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as
you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master.
…” [The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17“…I planted the seed, Apollos
watered the plants, but God made you grow. It’s not the one who plants or the one
who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who
makes things grow. ...”[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17
“…Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God’s field in
which we are working.”[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17
“9-15 Or, to put it another way, you are God’s house. Using the
gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints;
Apollos is putting up the walls. …”
[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17“…Let each carpenter who
comes on the job take care to build on the foundation!
Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already
laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. …”
[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17
“…Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use
cheap or inferior materials, you’ll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won’t get by with a thing. ...”
[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17
“…If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn’t,
your part of the building will be torn out and started over.
But you won’t be torn out; you’ll survive—but just barely.”
[The Message]
1 Corinthians 3:5-17
“16-17 You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?
No one will get by with vandalizing God’s temple, you
can be sure of that. ...”[The Message]
C.T. Studd
“Two little lines I heard one day, Traveling along life’s busy way;Bringing conviction to my heart, And from my mind would not depart;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
C.T. Studd
“Only one life, yes only one, Soon will its fleeting hours be done;Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet, And stand before His Judgment seat;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
C.T. Studd
“Only one life, the still small voice, Gently pleads for a better choiceBidding me selfish aims to leave, And to God’s holy will to cleave;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
C.T. Studd
“When this bright world would tempt me sore, When Satan would a victory score;When self would seek to have its way, Then help me Lord with joy to say;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
C.T. Studd
“Give me Father, a purpose deep, In joy or sorrow Thy word to keep;Faithful and true what e’er the strife, Pleasing Thee in my daily life;Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
C.T. Studd
“Oh let my love with fervor burn, And from the world now let me turn;Living for Thee, and Thee alone, Bringing Thee pleasure on Thy throne;Only one life, “twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”