In this episode Pastor Duane Brooks discusses the importance of seeking revival and the need for change within the church. Using the example of the lukewarm church in Laodicea, he emphasizes the danger of self-sufficiency and urges listeners to acknowledge their need for God. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode on letters to the churches! #PastorDuaneBrooks #Revival #SeekingChange
Message based on Revelation 3:14-22.
Quotes:
Keith Green: My eyes are dry, my faith is old, my heart is hard, my prayers are cold. I know how I ought to be alive to you and dead to me. Oh what can be done for an old heart like mine? Soften it up with oil and wine. The oil is you, your Spirit of love. Please wash me anew in the wine of your blood.
Henri Nouwen: God speaks to us not only every once in a while but always.
Emily Dickinson wrote:
I am nobody . . . Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
How dreary to be somebody
How public like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Vance Havner observed: A "halfway Christian" works both sides of the street. He is religious because it helps him in business and gives him a self-righteous satisfaction. But he has no intention of making Jesus Lord of his life. Yet our Lord said He would rather a man be cold, utterly without profession to be Christian, rather than medium, lukewarm.
Duane Brooks: In my journal at Laodicea I wrote, “All that is left is a lonely hillside. Grass and dirt have covered the broken stones of a once proud civilization. Nobody lives in Laodicea today.
Donald L. Bubna: Discipline ... is to strengthen and restore, not condemn or destroy.
Henri Nouwen: Discipline is the other side of discipleship.
Rebecca DeYoung: God wants to kick down the whole door to our hearts and flood us with his life; we want to keep the door partway shut so that a few lingering treasures remain untouched, hidden in the shadows.
Alexander MacLaren: We may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank and told to help himself, and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor?
Blaise Pascal sewed into his jacket the story of the moment of his conversion:
The year of grace, 1654
Monday, 23rd November,
From about half past ten in the evening until half past twelve
FIRE
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the
Philosophers and savants
Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.
God of Jesus Christ.
My God and Thy God
Steve Bezner: If our suffering doesn't awaken us spiritually, it's simply a tragedy.
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