Abisha Kasiyamhuru

Christian| Encourager|
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[Abisha Kasiyamhuru @abishakay]

I hope to be the Christian that neither needs adversity to seek God nor depravity to give Him attention. May my loyalty to God never be based on my circumstances. Neither my praise and trust in Him premised on my prayers being answered the way I want but on His Sovereignty alone.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Tonight, lay down the burdens you were never meant to carry. The Lord God is on His throne. Nothing has surprised Him, nothing has escaped His notice, and nothing can frustrate His purposes. Rest in His sovereignty, trust His providence, and sleep in peace. The Lord will be just as faithful tomorrow as He was today.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

7th Century Bishop Isaac of Nineveh contends that a heart that has not been enlarged into compassion will produce a voice that wounds rather than heals, even when its content is accurate, because the vessel imprints its own narrowness onto the word.

In the contemporary prophetic culture he would say that the prophet who has not wept for those he or she addresses has not yet been formed into a vessel fit to address them, and this is the cruciform discipline that keeps prophetic speech from becoming an instrument of the ego.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

The Bible is the truth, whether you agree with it or not.

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“Cease from self-confidence. Fall into the arms of Jesus.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you most.
- A.W. Tozer

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

"If there be anything I know, anything that I am quite assured of beyond all question, it is that praying breath is never spent in vain."

— Charles Spurgeon

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

Happy thought: when we suffer for Christ, we are suffering with Christ. He is there.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

At work today: do not complain, do not cut corners, do not gossip, do not flirt with sin, and do your labor before God. Be a man or woman of integrity.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Agreement was never the goal. Communion is. Scripture nowhere promises uniformity of opinion among the people of God. It promises one body with many members, which means the real task is not winning the argument but learning to remain at the table when agreement fails. Whoever leaves the table has already lost something greater than the debate.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Reason is a real gift and a genuine light, yet it shines best when it knows it is not the only light, and it grows luminous precisely when it bows before the mystery it cannot contain.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

The God who is true is not a theorem to be proven but a Person to be known, and he gives himself not to the one who masters an argument but to the one who opens a heart.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The Christian life is not lived in pieces, as though God owns our worship but not our work, our prayers but not our thoughts, our Sundays but not our ordinary days. Every breath is lived before His face.

“And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Hebrews 4:13).

This is what many forget. We do not step in and out of God’s presence. We live every moment under His gaze, sustained by His mercy, searched by His holiness, and called to walk in a manner worthy of Him.

“I have set the LORD continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken” (Psalm 16:8).

To live before God is to know that nothing is small. Our words matter. Our motives matter. Our private thoughts matter. Our suffering matters. Our work matters. Our obedience matters. The whole life belongs to the Lord.

“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men” (Colossians 3:23).

So the Christian does not live for applause, approval, comfort, or reputation. We live before God, answerable to God, dependent on God, and satisfied in God. That is Coram Deo. The whole life under the eye of the Holy One.

#CoramDeo

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

"If God has not cut you off from mercy, there is no room for despair."

— Charles Spurgeon

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

Even now, while I write, and while you read, they are praising the Lamb that was slain. 🙌

#Hallelujah #Amen

[Abisha Kasiyamhuru @abishakay]

@ScottRoberts Great song. Haven't heard it in a while.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

The image of God in us was not erased at the Fall. It was darkened, fragmented, and marred. The Patristics distinguished between the image (eikon) and the likeness (homoiosis). The image is what makes us human and remains. The likeness is what we were meant to grow into, and it has been gravely wounded. Salvation is not the manufacturing of something new in us from nothing. It is the restoration of what was always meant to be, through participation in the One who is the perfect Image of the Father.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

We were not made to imitate God from a distance. We were made to share in the divine life. The likeness of God is not restored by trying harder. It is restored by participating in the One who is the Image of the invisible God. Apart from communion with Christ through the Spirit, the image in us remains a buried treasure no one can spend. In Christ, the likeness begins to surface again from under the rubble of what we have made of ourselves.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

You bear the image of God. So does the person you most disagree with. So does the person who has hurt you. So does the one whose choices have made it nearly impossible to see that image any longer. This is not sentimentality. It is the hardest claim Christians make. It does not require us to call evil good. It requires us to remember that no human being is ever outside the reach of the mercy that knows how to restore the likeness wherever the image still endures.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

All death can do to the believer is deliever him to Jesus.
- John MacArthur

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“Let no one go to hell unwarned and unprayed for.”

— Charles Spurgeon