Andy's Inspiration Box

Matthew 21:1-3 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 21 When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.[a]”

"Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them." - Dwight L Moody

Psalm 131 New International Version (NIV) 1 My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. 3 Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.

"Calling is where our talents and burdens collide." - Rebekah Lyons

Galatians 5:1 New International Version (NIV) - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT) -  This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

"If you do the works of love before the emotions match up, the feelings of love will eventually follow along." - Jill Briscoe

"Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, the nourishment of mind with His truth, the purifying of imagination by His beauty, the opening of the heart to love, the surrender of will to His purpose - and all this is gathered up in adoration to the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable, and therefore the chief remedy for all that self-centredness, which is the original sin and the source of all actual sin." - Archbishop William Temple

"The person who goes on to know God in a deep and intimate way is the one who can affirm that God is good even though there may be a thousand appearances to the contrary. We may be very conscious that we have not yet arrived at that place of absolute trust in God. Nevertheless, we are making progress when there is a deep longing within that we might come to the place of trusting God even when we cannot trace Him." - Mick Brooks

"We are here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of that person. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshipper, and after that he or she can learn to be a worker. The work done by a worshipper will have eternity in it." - A. W. Tozer