You can't want what you don't want while you don't want it. But you can ask to want. And if God wills, the want will happen - Piper

Lord help me to never lose focus of the priority of Christ in all things (Colossians 1:18).

Christ is All

Jesus, You have given Yourself for me, may I give myself to You; You have died for me; may I live to You in every moment of my time, in every movement of my mind; in every pulse of my heart. May I never dally with the world and its allurements, but walk by Your side, listen to Your voice, be clothed with Your graces, and adorned with Your righteousness.

 (a reworded Puritan Prayer)

May my pursuit be not to become merely good but rather godly - in the likeness of Christ.

I purpose to love and follow Jesus Christ to the utmost of my ability.

Many who confess Christ are pampering themselves to death rather than pushing themselves to holiness. (Lawson)

A transformed life is the inevitable consequence of genuine faith - JMAC So, what are your consequences?

If I am 'in Christ' then the primary purpose of my life is to become in practice what I am in position.

"Under no circumstances ought we to be content unless we reflect the grace which was in Him." Spurgeon (2 Peter 3:18)

Hallel - final preps for Seder

Hallel - final preps for Seder

Faith's way of walking is to cast all care upon the Lord, and then to anticipate good results from the worst calamities. CHS

A morning flower from CFA

A morning flower from CFA

Simple Regeneration - by Spurgeon

Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are "born again," for there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of a Christian is not the nature of a Christian; and that being born in a Christian land, and being recognized as professing the Christian religion is of no avail whatever, unless there be something more added to it—the being "born again," is a matter so mysterious, that human words cannot describe it.

"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."

Nevertheless, it is a change which is known and felt: known by works of holiness, and felt by a gracious experience. This great work is supernatural. It is not an operation which a man performs for himself: a new principle is infused, which works in the heart, renews the soul, and affects the entire man. It is not a change of my name, but a renewal of my nature, so that I am not the man I used to be, but a new man in Christ Jesus.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: man can do the one, God alone can do the other. If you have then, been "born again," your acknowledgment will be, "O Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, Thou art my spiritual Parent; unless Thy Spirit had breathed into me the breath of a new, holy, and spiritual life, I had been to this day 'dead in trespasses and sins.' My heavenly life is wholly derived from Thee, to Thee I ascribe it. 'My life is hid with Christ in God.' It is no longer I who live, but Christ who liveth in me." May the Lord enable us to be well assured on this vital point, for to be unregenerate is to be unsaved, unpardoned, without God, and without hope.

John 3:7

We are resolved about it, Jesus must have the crown of our heart's delight; we will not dishonor our Bridegroom by mourning in His presence!

We may be certain that whatever God hs made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. CHS

We are resolved about it, Jesus must have the crown of our heart's delight; we will not dishonor our Bridegroom by mourning in His presence!