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SantoshPoonen

  1. #Knowledge puffs up, #love builds up. Which one are you doing: in your marriage, as a parent, as a member of Christ's Body, as an employee?
  2. God's plan for you began when you were just a twinkle in His eye, and hasn't changed since then, despite your failures! bit.ly/KsYJbu
  3. You'll be a shy Christian if you: seek your own honor; rely on your ability; don’t have power; don’t know God as Father bit.ly/L6oc9u
  4. The converse of 1Cor.15:19 is - "If only in the next life we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable." #GodlinessNow (2Pet.1:3)
  5. Be sure your sin will find you out. You WILL get caught in this lifetime or before God after you die & the former option is actually better!
  6. "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving" We would do well to learn from Othello!
  7. It matters not how great the pressure but where it lies: whether it comes between you & God or presses you closer to His heart ~HudsonTaylor
  8. If God's AUTHORITY is on your AUTHENTIC life He imparts GRACE & FAITH through you into the lives of those given to you: bit.ly/I9zhGd
  9. "Holiness is obeying God: loving one another as He loved us; even when it's against our own interests; even when inconvenient." ~ChuckColson
  10. "In the midst of all this [narcissistic destruction in the world].. for the church, this ought to be an hour of opportunity." ~ChuckColson
  11. If we are unable to learn from the Old Testament, we've missed almost two-thirds of God's instruction to us. So take heed! (I Cor. 10:11-12)
  12. The richest person in heaven will be the one who obeyed the Father the most in doing good and being generous (I Timothy 6:18-19).
  13. The love of money will turn a church with its ministries, perseverance, etc., into one from which Jesus removes His light (Revelation 2:2,5)
  14. The love of money will turn you from being a co-worker with God to a deserter — Demas is a classic example of this (II Timothy 4:10).
  15. The love of money will turn your zeal for God into legalism -- the Pharisees were a classic example of this (Luke 16:14).
  16. The Parable of the Lawn Chair and the Tree (bit.ly/H2jT13)
  17. When you love God and not Mammon (Matthew 25:31-46), you will focus on building eternal wealth by doing good to others (I Timothy 6:18-19).
  18. "God has shown that there is nothing He won't do or give or suffer, that men may be saved" (Henry W. Frost) - So will I #spend and be spent.
  19. Kingdom of the world: from child to Self-dependent adult. Kingdom of heaven: from Self-dependent adult to little child. bit.ly/GTe5cu
  20. When you truly become like a little child (Matthew 18:2), there will never be any substitute for the pure Word of God (1 Peter 2:2).