Seeking Truth Meditations

Quote (April 13/14, 2020): "Chase the Sunset" "Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds... the testing of your faith produces perseverance." (James 1:2) "Blessed is the one who God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty" (Job 5:17)

Quote (April 12, 2020): "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." (Mark Twain) "Blessed (Happy) are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold." (Prov. 3:13-14)

Quote (April 11, 2020): "Doubt whom you will but never yourself." (Christian Nestell Bovee) "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt... ...because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive...

Quote (April 10, 2020): "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing Enthusiasm." (Winston Churchill) "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand" (Isa. 21:10).

Quote (April 9, 2020): "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." (Beverly Sills) "Show me the right path, O LORD; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you." (Psa. 25:4-5)

Quote (April 8th, 2020): "Sometimes you have to be your own hero." Ecclesiastes 11:4-10 -> Whose who wait for perfect weather will never plant seeds; those who look at every cloud will never harvest crops.... You don't know what God is doing, or how, so do just take action. "For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "Plans for Good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hop...

Quote (April 06/07, 2020): "Push Yourself" Isaiah 53 talks of the coming Messiah's struggles with men but how he overcame the world in the end. God allowed one of his sheep to be led to the slaughter but only to save the many other sheep that God has called and wants in His Kingdom. Isaiah 54 gives us a hope for future Israel. Yes, they have been through a lot at this point but God tells them to c...

Quote (April 5, 2020): "Be Scared, and do it Anyway." "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." (Isa. 41:10) "for you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 John 4:18)

Quote (April 4, 2020): "The purpose of life is to be happy." (Dalai Lama) (Ecc. 9:7-10)

Quote (April 3, 2020): "A man of Courage is also full of Faith." (Marcus Tullius Cicero) "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ."...

Quote (April 2, 2020): "He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything." (Thomas Carlyle) "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me... he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord...

Quote (April 1, 2020): "Your only Limit is You." "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, be rooted and established in love..." (Eph. 3:16-17)

Quote (March 30/31, 2020): "Ambition Never Comes to an End." (Kenneth Kaunda) "God, who is Rich in Mercy, because of His Great Love with which He loved us," (Eph. 2:4) "No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit." (John 3:5)

Quote (March 29, 2020): "Nothing will work unless you do." (Maya Angelou) "For it is God which works in you to do his good pleasure... in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world..." (Phil. 2:13-18)

Quote (March 28, 2020): "Shake it off" Deut. 4:39-40 -> Let's keep his decrees and commands, that we may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you. Romans 10:17 -> Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. Hebrews 11:6 -> Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he i...

Quote (March 27, 2020): "Great Hopes make Great Men." (Thomas Fuller) "Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD, trust in Him; and he shall bring it to pass." (Psa. 37:3-5) "Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They...

Quote (March 26, 2020): "If you want to leave Footprints in the Sands of Time, Don't Drag Your Feet." (Sir A.P.J. Abdul Kalam) Let us retain his words: keeping his commandments to live. Let us pray for wisdom and understanding, forgetting it not... Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting you shall receive understanding... When thou goest, thy steps shall not b...

Quote (March 25, 2020): "Nothing can dim the Light which Shines from within." (Maya Angelou) Isaiah 40:31 -> Strong. 2 Sam. 13 28 -> Valiant. Prov. 31:25 -> Fearless. Psa. 46:5 -> She is Enough. "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my Heart, be acceptable in thy sight, Oh LORD, my Strength, and my Redeemer." (Psa. 19:14)

Quote (March 23/24, 2020): "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." (C.D. Jackson) Let us shine as lamps of the truth so others may be drawn to it and rejoice (John 5:35). Let us pray for one another, sing psalms, and confess our shortcomings (James 5:13).

Quote (March 22, 2020): "If not Now, then When?" "And now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name." (Acts 22:16)

Quote (March 21, 2020): "We must Embrace Pain and Burn it as Fuel for our Journey." (Kenji Miyazawa) "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isa. 55:8-9) God has much bigger plans than we even have for ourselves!!

Quote (March 20, 2020): "The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings." (Dave Weinbaum) Because of His Great Love we are not consumed, for His Compassion never fails. His Mercies are new every Morning; Great is His Faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-24)

Quote (March 19, 2020): "It is not the Mountains that we conquer, but ourselves." (Edmund Hillary) Let us not love in only word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:18) If we have faith the size of a Mustard Seed, we can do anything; we can move Mountains. (Matt. 17:20)

Quote (March 18, 2020): "Action is the real measure of intelligence." (Napoleon Hill) "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." (Prov. 9:10) "Fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." (Job. 28:28) "Fear of the Lord is beginning of wisdom; a good understanding is who keeps commandments." (Psa. 111:10) "Who is wise an...

Quote (March 16/17, 2020): "The harder I work, the luckier I get." (Thomas Jefferson) "...the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favour to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all ." (Ecc. 9:11) "We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according...