Category Archives: John Flavel
Spirit-filled Preaching
Ministers are like trumpets, which make no sound if breath be not breathed into them. Or like Ezekiel’s wheels, which move not unless the Spirit move them. Or like Elisha’s servants whose presence does no good unless Elisha’s spirit be there also.
Were the Whole Realm of Nature Mine…
The whole world is not a theater large enough to display or unfold one half of the unsearchable riches that lie hidden in Christ.“
HT: @NickRoark
Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me All the Days of My Life
The child of God is pursued by divine goodness all of his life and is never, ever able to escape it.
HT: girltalkhome.com
An Incomprehensible Mystery
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
The Purpose of Problems
Afflicting providences are sanctified to us, when we draw near to God under them.
HT: @CJMahaney
Where the Heart Ends
The heart is the treasury, the hand and tongue but the shops; what is in these, comes from that; the hand and tongue always begin where the heart ends.
Doers of God’s Word, Not Just Hearers
A man may go with a heedless spirit from ordinance to ordinance, abide all his days under the choicest teaching, and yet never be improved by them; for heart-neglect is a leak in the bottom — no heavenly influences, however rich, abide in that soul.
Chosen before the Foundations of the World
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
How Godly Are You?
Your delight and readiness in the paths of obedience is the very measure of your sanctification.
