The Connie Giordano Show

Is your life a life of listening to God? Or, are you more concerned about what man, self, or the world has to say? Are you guilty of giving a willing ear to all others but a closed ear to God?

No matter how hopeless your condition may be in the sight of men, there is no room for despair. All things are possible to God. You have a promise of restoration. JESUS is as good as He is powerful. Hope therefore in Him.

"To walk in the land of the living is the wicked man's desire, yea, were it possible he would walk here for ever; but for what end? Only to enjoy his lusts, have his fill of pleasure, and increase his wealth; whereas the godly man's aim in desiring to live is that he may 'walk before God,' advance His glory, and perform His service." (Charles Spurgeon) What does it mean to "walk before God"? What...

"Many are inclined to preach, but the Psalmist was inclined to practice; many are inclined to perform ceremonies, but he was inclined to perform statutes; many are inclined to obey occasionally, but David would obey alway, and, alas, many are inclined for temporary religion, but this godly man was bound for eternity, he would perform the statutes of his Lord and King even unto the end. Lord, send...

"Luther counsels every Christian to answer all temptations with this short saying, 'Christianus sum,' I am a Christian; and I would counsel every Christian to answer all temptations with this short saying,'The Lord is my portion.' O Christian, when Satan or the world shall tempt thee with honors, answer, 'The Lord is my portion'; when they shall tempt thee with riches, answer, 'The Lord is my port...

"We are too often in haste to sin; O that we may be in a greater hurry to obey...To be slow to keep the commands is really to break them. There is much evil in a lagging pace when God's command is to be followed...Many are zealots to obey custom and society, and yet they are slack in serving God. It is a crying shame that men should be served post haste, and that God's work should have the go by,...

"Whatever others do, this I will do; though I be singular, though all about me be evil-doers, and desert me; Whatever I have done hitherto, I will for the future walk closely with God. They are the commandments of God, of my God, and therefore I will keep them. He is God and may command me, my God, and will command me nothing but what is for my good." (Matthew Henry) It's time for separation. It's...

"It is the mark of a growing Christian that in his view Christ increases; the mark of a great Christian that to him Christ is very great. Augustine, Bernard, Leighton, Rutherford, Owen, Martyn - were these great Christians? And what had they in common? Large and admiring thoughts of Christ...A great Christian is one to whom the Lord has given 'largeness of heart.' " (The Pulpit Commentary) Secreta...

"The peril of the godly life is drifting into ease and indifference; the doing of religious duties as mere routine; the meeting of religious obligations listlessly and without heart...We must not rest without energy and activity in the religious life. A formal obedience should be as distressing to us as it is to God." (The Pulpit Commentary) Where are you today in your Christian walk? Have you dri...

"The great end of religion is active obedience to the will of God. True understanding of our ways brings the grand conclusion - that man's 'way ought to be God's way.' We are forgiven in order to this." (The Pulpit Commentary) Are you aware of the fact that the great end - the bottom line, the conclusion, the target, the resolution - of Christianity is active obedience to the will of God? Not pass...

"We must first get a thing before we can keep it. In order to keep it well, we must first get a firm grip of it: we cannot keep in the heart that which we have not heartily embraced by the affections." "Highly prize the Scriptures, or you will not obey them." (Charles Spurgeon) Are you "keeping" or obeying God's Word? Do you have a firm grip of the Holy Scriptures? Are you "keeping" them in your h...

"Some give to God a careless service, a sort of hit or miss obedience. but the Lord has not commanded such service, nor will He accept it. His law demands the love of all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and a careless religion has none of these." (Charles Spurgeon) "God has never given a commandment, the observance of which He knew to be impossible...and to whatsoever He has commanded, He req...

"If, in the worst of times, God's people can lift up their heads with joy, knowing that all shall work for good to them, they will own it is God, that is the lifter up of their head, that gives them both cause to rejoice and hearts to rejoice." (Matthew Henry) "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me..." (Psalm 27:6) Receive this word from the Lord today. But, before...

"The God of Jacob then is the God Who met Jacob while he had nothing, and deserved nothing but wrath, and Who gave him everything. Happy indeed are they who have such a God for their God!" (Grace Gems) What the God of Jacob did for Jacob, He will do for us! Who He was to Jacob - Judge...Protector, Supporter, Deliverer, Enabler...Miracle Worker...Mighty God...Refuge...Prayer hearing God...King...an...

"If God is not sovereign, if He is not in control, if all things are not under His dominion, then He is not the Most High, and we are either in the hands of fate (whatever that is) or in the hands of men or in the hands of the devil. But take courage beloved for...the Most High God, El Elyon, is in total control. He always has been in total control. He will always be in total control." (Precept Au...

"Mr. Moody says: 'There is much more said in the Bible about praise than abour prayer. The Psalms are nothing but praise, and as David got nearer the end of the journey, he seems to have thought of little else. So it is with Christians - the nearer they get to heaven, the more they praise God." (The Biblical Illustrator) David was resolved to "sing praise" to God. Whenever he did, God filled his e...

"He who has any proper sense of the greatness, the majesty, and the glory of God, 'intends' to praise Him forever. He sees that there is enough in the character of God to demand eternal praise, and he does not anticipate that a period can ever occur in all the future when he will feel that the causes for praise have come to an end, or when his heart will be indisposed to celebrate that praise." (B...

"David would praise God because he had many times, and all along, found Him his refuge in the day of trouble. He that is all this to us, is certainly worthy of our best affections, praises, and services. The trials of His people will end in joy and praise. When the night of affliction is over, they will sing of the Lord's power and mercy in the morning." (Matthew Henry) In the presence of his enem...

"The LORD deals bountifully with men when He gives Himself unto them as their portion and inheritance; His Son, and all things along with Him, His Spirit, and the graces of it; and every daily needful supply of grace." (John Gill's Commentary) God is saying to you today through this message that the end will be different from the beginning. How will that be brought about? Because there is a God in...

"The fixed heart is resolved to 'sing and give praise' in spite of everything that might make sobs and tears choke the song." (Alexander MacLaren) Let me ask you today - do you have a "fixed" heart? Is your heart steadfast -steadfast with a fearless confidence in God? If it is, then, like David, in every situation in life, you will be ready and resolved to sing and give praise. How do you get a "f...

"Let it be blessed for ever, it shall be blessed for ever, it deserves to be blessed for ever, and we hope to be forever blessing it." (Matthew Henry) David seemingly had a revelation of Psalm 45:17 - the promise given to Messiah that His name would be remembered in all generations. He served his own generation by carrying on the fame of Messiah through the praise of His name. What about you? Will...

"Let us not forget that we have much to praise God for." (The Biblical Illustrator) In this Bible Message, we looked at the Grandest Resolution - "while I live will I praise the LORD." We saw that it is sparked by our being in covenant with God...that there is a certain manner in which it is done... there is a particular subject matter behind it...and that it is to follow us throughout this life i...

"No one grows who does not mean to grow." (The Biblical Illustrator) "The longer we live, the more expert we should grow in praising God and the more we should abound in it." (Matthew Henry) Let me ask you today - are you growing in praising God? Are you abounding in it? Like David, you can resolve to hope continually...to hope in all conditions...to never give up to despair...however painful your...

"One thing - God is fixed, and it is a simple truth that man is never fixed until he is fixed upon God. Surely a house, as to its fixedness, depends upon the foundation...Oh! the heart can only be fixed according to the fixedness of that on which it rests." (The Biblical Illustrator) The heart is the main thing. Nothing is done to purpose in Christianity further than it is done with the heart. The...

"If we praise God as we ought, we shall be kept from praising ourselves. Surely that is good. I have heard that most self-made men are very apt to praise their maker; indeed we are all liable to sing the praises of self. The sure way of escaping this danger is to fill your heart and mouth with praise to God." (The Biblical Illustrator) In our teaching today, we saw from the word of God that the #1...