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  I hope you are as encouraged by these as I have been! 

I searched some sites and found all these quotes from Alan Redpath. I know very little about him but nearly all of these greatly encouraged me in some way.  I hope you are also blessed, challenged and encouraged.  (This first one is abridged to make it more personal.)  "God expects nothing from (insert your name here) but failure. We are no different today from the day before we were converted. We would be capable of committing any sin imaginable but for the grace of God. We are no different as people from what we were as youngsters. And the sins that beset us then beset us now, were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Ghost to keep us.  As long as I seek by His grace to maintain the attitude of committal and surrender to Him, then every demand, however unexpected or grim, hard, tough; every decision, however difficult; every temptation, every fierce dart of the Enemy of my soul is an at...

"Living out God's thoughts. Let your highest ambition be to become what God has planned for you. Lay all your plans at his feet. Let God's will be your will, and he will lead you to just that life which will be for you the most beautiful, the most honourable, and the most blessed. If you would have God's thoughts to live out in your life, you must go to God for them. You must sit down often with him in the silence. You must look reverently into the divine Word and ponder deeply its holy sentences. You must turn your steps habitually to the place of prayer. You will not have heavenly visions if you never look upward for them." J.R. Miller D.D.

Last week, I was challenged by these words, spoken by a local preacher. I think they're a good reminder. Have I fully surrendered to Jesus? Has He cleansed and filled me so He can use me? Am I truly satisfied with Him? and is He satisfied with me?

 “Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.”  -  Hudson  Taylor   (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 52.) I read a very similar quote this morning, but it mentioned our health as well. I think sometimes we think we have given everything to God, but so often we take some of it back. It's so good to know that we really can trust God to "keep that which we've committed to Him against that day". I found it encouraging anyway. Hope you do too!!