Quotes from David Jeremiah

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

Adversity promotes the progress of the gospel. 2. Adversity provides opportunities to witness. 3. Adversity produces courage in our fellow believers. 4. Adversity proves the character of our friendships. 5. Adversity provokes growth in our lives. 6. Adversity purifies our motives. 7. Adversity prepares us to see life and death in perspective.

Whatever happens, remember that death is not the end; rather, it is just a temporary separation of the soul from the body.

So we identify the fear, then we confess it. As we bring our fear before God and own up to it, we do one other thing. We repent. That means to disavow the sin completely, to turn and walk the other way. Then we can look toward the steps that lead us to victory over our fears.

The Antichrist will acknowledge no religion at all other than the worship of himself and Satan. In his attempt to wipe the thought of God from the world's collective mind, he will try to change the moral and natural laws of the universe (Daniel 7:25).

As civilization speeds toward its final destiny, the appearance of a powerful world ruler is inevitable.

we identify the fear, then we confess it. As we bring our fear before God and own up to it, we do one other thing. We repent. That means to disavow the sin completely, to turn and walk the other way. Then we can look toward the steps that lead us to victory over our fears.

3. Claim God's Promises of Protection

If you know God through Jesus Christ, then you are experiencing eternal life right now even though you haven't physically died. And if you are experiencing eternal life right now, death is no more than a brief interruption to that which you are already experiencing—life that has no end.

Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm" (Joel 2:13).

The outward man is perishing; the inward man is being renewed daily. •?The light affliction is today's problems; the eternal glory is tomorrow's promise. •?The things that are seen are temporary; the things that are not seen are eternal.

As Pierson implies, Christ abolished death so completely that even the term death is no longer appropriate for believers.

Worship is the corridor through which we make the exchange of heaven. It is the avenue that leads us from the emptiness of this world to the fullness of the next world. It is the street that leads from decay and discouragement to renewal and glory.

Paul exposed this strategy in his letter to the Corinthians, saying that Satan has blinded people's minds, "lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them" (2 Corinthians 4:4).

When I ask, "What are you afraid of?" I'm asking, "What is it that immobilizes you? What is stealing your joy and destroying your hope? What is robbing you of sleep, night after night? What keeps you from living by faith and being a risk taker? What keeps you from giving your life wholly to a loving God who wants nothing but the best for you?

We are not citizens of earth who are going to heaven; we are citizens of heaven who are traveling through earth.

Vernon M. Whaley wrote: One day, worshipper, you and I will be a part of that great multitude, that choir from all the nations. No one really knows what kind of choir it will be—contemporary, classical, traditional, or gospel—but it won't matter. And even if you couldn't carry a tune on earth, or

didn't have a lick of musical talent, it won't matter. You and I and all who love Christ will be qualified to join the eternal chorus, and together our voices will sound across the universe, in one unified statement: "We love Jesus; He is worthy to be praised!"5

will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,' says the LORD" (Jeremiah 30:17).

God does not give us desires that cannot be realized.

If Jesus had to suffer, why would we think ourselves exempt? After all, as He explained, "a disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master" (Matthew 10:24).

John shows us the way when he writes, "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues'" (Rev. 18:4). God calls us to get out of Babylon—that is, to separate

Your will, not mine, O Lord.

Sometimes it is only through pain that we become who God wants us to be.