Day 147 Words with Purpose

 

 “Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.”
― Alan Redpath

 

Sometimes I have nothing to say. Today my thoughts have been muddled. Perhaps the incessant rain, perhaps melancholy over a memory so dear or so frightful, or maybe even.... See, no words can express the depth of my soul. But, regardless of what memories or present realities arise on the day after remembering those who selflessly gave their lives for our country, I am grateful, and there is a joy that is so within my soul that no unhappiness can touch it. The joy of the LORD will always be my strength. So I share Alan Redpath's words today - a man I was recently introduced to by Jack Hibbs. He was born on January 9, 1907 and died March 16, 1989. He was a well known British evangelist and pastor who accomplished much for the kingdom of God before journeying home to be with his Savior. I hope his words inspire, encourage, and enable to live a life for Christ and to love your neighbor as yourself.

 

“When GOD wants to do an impossible task He takes an impossible man and crushes him.”
― Alan Redpath 

 

 “The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David 

 

 

“There is some task which the God of all the Universe, the Great Creator, your Redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do--and which will remain undone and incomplete until, by faith and obedience, you step into the will of God.”
― Alan Redpath

“Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David