Sayings of Samuel Godfrey George - September 2015, Part 2

The fire must not only be in your voice. It must first be in your heart, and it must also be in your mind. Just loud words with no heart and mind will only be empty.

Two things are possible today. You can focus on what has gone wrong in your life and feel sorry for yourself. Or you can focus on what God is doing in your life and believe that he will not let your life slip beyond his control. What will you choose to do today?

Don't be sad today no matter how tough life is. Remember this. God loves you. And he is good. And he wants to do something good in your life today. So wipe away your tears and wear a smile on your face. God is near and he will not let you down.

Our present troubles are nothing compared to the everlasting joy that we are going to experience in the life with God. Yes, we will live eternally with God after we go through this life of troubles. So let us patiently endure our sufferings and give thanks to God for his kindness to us, for he made it possible for us to live with him eternally, by the death of his Son on the cross. And let us not fail to rejoice in his goodness today.

If you are going to feel sorry for yourself today there will be no time for rejoicing in what God has done in your life.

Don't waste your time feeling sad for yourself. All of us are going through some trouble or the other. Even those of us who are smiling forever are going through some hidden trouble. Life is not without troubles. In fact Jesus Christ said that in this life we will have many troubles. Let us be grateful for what we have, for the good things that God has kindly given us. We may not have much, but as long as we have God, we have everything we need. Shall we rejoice in this today?

It is good to meet people who want to meet you. It is good to meet such people even if you don't want to meet them.

Learn to appreciate God's pace even when it seems terribly slow.

Believing in people may not be a very sensible thing to do. People may lie and cheat and deceive and make themselves look good when they are deeply flawed within. Yet we must love people, trusting and believing in them even when such an attitude can be self-defeating. Love always trusts. Love always believes in the best in people knowing well that people are essentially unreliable and unpredictable. This is a terrible way to live yet this is the only way God wants us to live.

Moving forward may actually be sitting down and enjoying what you have, instead of running after something you will never have.

I don't want everything. But I want something. And I want to enjoy it when I get it. I don't want to constantly desire something else, that I don't sit down and enjoy what I have with me right now. Yes, I want to sit down and enjoy what I have. Walking always, seeking always is not going to bring me the joy that I need today.

You need to like what you do. That is all this required. The appreciation of others is desirable, but not mandatory. You can go on in life without the appreciation of people, as long as you can appreciate yourself and do what brings you satisfaction.

Respond to those who knock on your door. Friendship is not easy. It takes courage to make friends in the world. It takes courage to open your door to someone despite your innermost fears. The one who keeps his door locked may think he is protecting himself from intruders. But God didn't create us to lock ourselves in our secure homes. We need to go out and meet people, even those and especially those whom we find uncomfortable, undesirable and dangerous. If we won't respond to the knock on our door we will not know how much we can give or receive. If we play safe we will lose more than we will ever know. Trust in God and open your door to the one who seeks your love today. If you won't you are surely withdrawing your love from someone, to say the very least. And you will not receive all the love that you can possibly receive.

Do you want to love? Love yourself first. Love what you are, and who you are. Love God who created you for a certain purpose. And the purpose is to know the love of God who loved you enough to put you on this planet. He loved you enough to let you see the wonder of life. Now see that wonder, and appreciate your life. Do what you are able to do, and do it well, and do it happily. Be grateful for everything, even when you feel you don't have much. Be grateful for anything, even if it seems like a trifle. Don't compare yourself with others. Just look at yourself today, and count your blessings, even the ones that seem to have gone away. Hold on to the blessings that are still with you, and appreciate what you have. This will be a step forward in your life.

What can you do? You can keep trying. Try to smile. Try to be happy about something that you can still do. Do it. And enjoy doing it. Help yourself before you help any other person. You just can't do good to others if you can't do good to yourself. Like yourself. Be yourself. Do what only you can do. Love yourself so much that you don't hurt yourself. And when you're done doing that you can go out and help others.

What should I be happy about? Be happy about everything. Why should I be happy about things that are not so great when compared with what someone else has? Don't compare yourself with others. Just look at what you had once and what you have now. Be happy with progress if there is progress. If there is no progress, be happy that you still have something left.

If we want to love God with all our heart and mind and might, that is a good thing, even if we can't achieve it in our own strength. Let not our failure to love God in this way be a stumbling block to our spiritual growth. This thing we must do cannot be done in our strength. Our love for God is something that we cannot produce on our own. We need to pray for it day and night, and wait as long as it takes to receive that love. So be grateful now for this desire you feel in your heart. Feeling this surely indicates that you belong to God.

God is for you. Don't be ashamed of what you've done. None of us have measured up to God's standard of good. None of us ever will. The only way we find acceptability before God is when we stand in Christ. And that is what we must do today.

Rejoicing in God means rejoicing in life, and all the good that we find in life.

Live with the desire to give to someone even if that takes something away from you.

Be willing to give even when you are not acknowledged as the giver.

When something goes wrong, remember the time when everything went right, and give thanks to God.

People come and go, but God goes on with me forever.

God knows your needs. And he will supply. Trust in that promise and rest.

I am a servant of God. I try to speak about him as well as I know him. I want the world to know God, as I know him.

Anyone can make a promise. But it takes a special person to live up to his or her word.

Problems began when the first human being chose to disobey God and obey the devil. God warned Adam about the dire consequences of disobedience. God warned him that he would die both spiritually and physically. But Adam still disobeyed. And God's warning came true. Adam and the generations of his children suffer the consequences of that disobedience. We are the children of Adam, and as long as we are in the flesh we are under a curse pronounced by God at the very beginning of history. Nevertheless we are not doomed. Jesus Christ came into the world to release us from the curse. But for us to experience the release we must endure the cross set before us, and live with our problems. God will not let us suffer beyond what we can bear.

Friend, I am sorry about the problems in your life. But you have a God who loves you very much. And he will not forsake you in a time of trouble. Know that and rest in that promise.

God won't fail you, whatever you are going through. Just turn to him and lay down your burdens at his feet. You should rest in the assurance that he will surely take care of what you handed over to him.

There are problems in every life. But that does not diminish the truth of a loving God. We go through problems in the knowledge that God is always present with us and ready to help us if we would turn to him. Maybe we go through problems in life to arrive at the feet of God who alone can give us relief. We find him out eventually, after much worrying and questioning. And when we go to him he will not fail us.

Pay attention to what is commonly believed and accepted. There may be quite a lot to treasure in that. The uncommon may be sensational but it may not be true. There is much to speak for a way of life that has been preserved for many centuries.

People are often drawn to the uncommon. They will gravitate to the uncommon even if it not true. They work under the assumption that something of interest and value is usually found in what is not commonly known. This may be true in some cases. But in the process of being always attracted to the uncommon, there is a danger of not paying attention to what is common, for there is much to value in what is common.

If you can't accept yourself the way you are, it will be a tragedy. When God accepts you just as you are, you should attempt to do the same.

It is not by gritting one's teeth and clenching one's fists that the great victories in faith are won. It is by trusting in the unchanging nature of God, who will never leave us or forsake us. This we must remember even as the ground beneath us is shaking and our world is appearing to collapse.

Lord, may your great wisdom penetrate my head and lord over my heart. Let your eternally valid truth guide my wayward feet till the day I die. May my dissolute heart find permanent health in your glorious light that dispels the hellish darkness I find inside.

You should welcome the people who walk into your door and not look for others who will not come in.

Sayings of Samuel Godfrey George - September 2015, Part 1

Let us not fail to approach God today with our problems. Let us be confident of his help. Let us cast all out cares on God because he cares for us.

God, please care for your children today. We are calling out to you, asking for your help. Will you not help us? Will you not care for us? The Bible says that we should cast all our cares on you, because you care for us. That is what we are doing today. Please respond to us favourably. Please care for us today. Let those who turn to you today not be disappointed.

Give a little bit of love and you will get a lot of it back.

If God gave it to you he will help you keep it. Just trust him to do it. Don't panic if he is late.

Don't worry about it. It's not going to go away if you worry. God is there for you. Count on him. It won't be a waste of time. God won't disappoint the one who counts on him.

Attend to the one who knocks on your door. Stop thinking about those who will not even bother to come near your door.

Let tomorrow rest with God. Let your worries about tomorrow cease today. Look around and appreciate what is still there. And then decide to be happy about it.

Let me like the one who seems to go against me. Let me particularly like that one. If possible let me appreciate that person.

It's fear that makes us do the most foolish things in the name of faith. There is no fear in love. And when you know God's love, there is nothing to fear.

God's timing and our timing do not always agree. Often God appears late. God has his reasons, and works according to his plan. And though he takes time, he achieves what he wants in the most complete manner. This is why Solomon said, "He makes all things beautiful in his time."

Nothing is more valuable than knowing God and being with him. Not even the people in life that we value the most, such as parents, siblings, spouses and friends, and even our very lives, matter less than our being with God. To be with God we must love him more than anything else in the world.

Let me seek God today. Let me ask him to do his will in my life. Let God's plan be my life. Let his desires be mine. Let his joy be mine. Let me love like God and give without restraint expecting nothing but the joy of giving. Let me rejoice in all that God has done in this universe and in this world. Let me proclaim him as King in every place, especially in my own heart. Let this come to pass now.

Live your life no matter how unattractive it is. Don't try to live someone else's life no matter how attractive it is.

Is it hard to forget your past mistakes? It's because you haven't forgiven yourself. God's forgiveness is of no use to you if you won't forgive yourself.

Say to yourself, "If God can forgive me, I can forgive myself. I'm only human. I'll always make mistakes as long as I live. And every time I make a mistake I'll ask God to forgive me, and I'll accept his forgiveness. I'll also forgive myself, and move on in life."

Whatever you have done, God is ready to forgive. Just go to him, and confess your sins, if you haven't done that already. Then accept his forgiveness, and believe that you are forgiven.

You MUST LIVE and enjoy the life God has prepared for you. God loves you. And that's all that matters.

We all have Satan in us. But it's time to kick him out. And the only one who can do this is Jesus Christ. Let him in and he'll take care of Satan.

People will always disappoint you because you always expect them to be what they cannot be. Just learn to love them as you love yourself. You are not perfect, still you love yourself. Love others in the same way.

Love people. Love everything about people. Don't discriminate between the good and the bad. Love as God loves. And God loves both the good and the bad.

Celebrate people today. Celebrate those in your life. Delight in their presence. Appreciate everything that they do. Honour them as children of God. And love them as you would love yourself. Life is short. It can end any time. But before it ends celebrate the people in your life. And give thanks to God for them.

What about today? What about this moment? Don't let it slip away because you are troubled about tomorrow. Submit your fear of tomorrow to God. Submit all your tomorrows to God, and let them rest there in his capable hands. Trust in him to do good in your life. Believe that he wants the best for you always. And what he wants from you now is to rest without worry, and enjoy this moment in your life. It will not come again.

Worry is the enemy of faith. When we worry we reveal our lack of faith. God puts us in situations that demand our trust. In such situations we can choose to worry and despair. But if we choose to worry we should ask ourselves the question: what does worry achieve for us? Does it save us, or make the situation more tolerable? We will find out that worry achieves nothing. It does not improve our situation. It makes it even worse, for we feel miserable about our plight. When this happens, we will not look to God. We will look away from him to something else, which can never save us.

Worry is a waste of time and God-given energy. If we fail to enjoy life today because we are worried about what might happen tomorrow, then we waste a precious opportunity to glorify God and do good in this life. We also show God that we don't trust him to take care of us tomorrow.

If you trust in God, don't worry about tomorrow. Let tomorrow rest securely in his hands. Focus on today, and what you can do right now. This very moment you can give thanks to God by enjoying your life, and helping others enjoy their lives as well. Will you smile today in joy? Will you be grateful for life today?

When I am focused on tomorrow I fail to enjoy today. Let tomorrow rest with God. Today enjoy every good thing that you can find in life.

Enjoy this day as it comes. Be happy about what you have, and don't be bothered by what you don't have. Be happy to be where you are. For God is near you, and he will keep walking with you.

When you know you are with God, learn to look away from what oppresses you, and try to smile. Ask God to fill you with hope and joy. And then your smile will appear.

Don't make promises that you can't keep. You can never stop doing wrong until God gives your the grace to stop. Wait until then.

We will always make mistakes as long as we are human. So it is wise on our part to tolerate our mistakes and learn from them whenever possible.

God already knows you and he loves you. You can do nothing to change that. What you should do is to accept his love and be happy about it. And then you should share your thoughts and feelings with him. And a relationship with God will begin.

Anything that leads you to God is a blessing.

Spell out even painfully your expectations. Declare them as truth even if they should look utterly improbable. As light came to dispel a huge darkness your hope will eventually dismantle the barriers that seem impregnable.

A smile is the best ornament that you can wear.

I wish that my road was smooth. But it is not smooth. I wish that my head was clean. But it is not clean. I wish that my heart was pure. But it is not pure. But I have to deal with the conflict that I feel in all these places. For that is the nature of my calling.

The work of Jesus Christ on the cross is finished as far as his involvement is concerned. But there is more that needs to be done. Human beings are not saved by not involving themselves in the act of salvation. They must involve themselves. And the involvement starts with belief. And when we believe, God works in us, God comes and lives in us and transforms us into the people that he wants us to be.

One cannot stop with saying that the Bible is simply a message from God that says, “I love you”. The message is both a reassurance and a warning. Human beings are reassured that God saved them. God saved them by dying on the cross. That’s the reassurance. And then there is a warning. You may call it a warning because there is a response expected of human beings. And this is that response. Humans need to believe in what God did on the cross. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came down to earth and died for all human beings. What he did is something that we must believe in. We must believe in his sacrificial act. And we must believe that it is enough. It is enough to cancel all our sins. And when we do so the Holy Spirit comes and lives in us. He give us a new spiritual life. We become children of God. And we live the life that children of God live. We are empowered to live that life.

Cast away your little-mindedness and put on the love that accepts all people, especially those whom you naturally dislike and distrust. In this alone are strength and salvation. And this is the love of Christ.

Do you like to be mastered or do you like to be the master? It is a personal choice. Those who chose to be the master of their lives should take care not to allow anyone or anything to take control of their lives. Those who like to be in control should ensure that nothing in their lives is so strong that it is beyond resistance. Everything must be brought under one's control. And every desire must be constantly reviewed and checked for its amenability to control. Such a task makes great demands, and may not be within the capability of many human beings. But with the exercise of the intellect and the awareness of the dangers some desires pose to the stability of the individual, a certain degree of mastery can be achieved in life. For this a thorough study of the heart is necessary. Every desire must be completely revealed in its nakedness and analysed to the point of finding out its bare essentials. Thus every desire can be tamed into the state of being controllable. For when we see clearly what really draws us, it loses its original appeal.

There are certain things we will resist. And there are other things we won't resist. There are certain things we won't allow. And there are other things we will allow. There are certain acts that we won't do publicly. And there are other acts that we will do privately. A life is a series of decisions. When we decide we consider what is best for us. We decide on what will bring us joy without invoking the displeasure of others. We live in constant awareness of what others think about us. And yet we want to live the way we secretly want to without being unfavourably noticed. This is a hard act in life. And those who do it well are most skilled. Yet it takes time to arrive at this skill. It takes a lot of consideration as well. But those who live life skilfully must also bear this in mind. Are they truly living their lives, or are their secret passions guiding their lives? Who is in charge eventually? This is what matters.

To be scared of getting lost when you are with God shows that you do not trust God to keep you protected. If a child feels that way about his parent it will be unusual behaviour, as most children feel secure when their parents are with them.

There are people who pray for things. I too have prayed for things. But these days I have learned to ask God for the desire to know him. I need to be attracted to God all the time. All love springs from an original attraction. And this is what I need to feel every day. And as long as the attraction is there, my heart will follow God. And when I follow him every good thing will follow me.

As a boy I was seized by a sudden desire to see Jesus Christ after I saw him as a raging train of fire in my dream. All that morning I repeated frenziedly, "I want to see Jesus. I want to see him now." This was followed by many years in the wilderness, and the desire to see Jesus was not even in my memory. But now in the last eight years of my work, that desire has surfaced again, and is moving me every day to do what I am doing. And I believe I am doing this just to see God, as I wanted to very early in life.

I said to God. "It is you that I wish to see. I don't want to see ghosts and demons. Seeing them may confirm the existence of the spiritual world. But seeing you is what will make me whole. So please let nothing appear before me except you."

Look for God. Don't look for Mars or Jupiter or any other celestial body with the longing that you should reserve only for God. The creations are beautiful. But let them not distract you from the Creator. It is he that you should long to see and experience.

Don't give place for any hard feelings. Let one thing alone guide you. Let it be love.

It is better to be honestly weak than dishonestly strong. When a man confesses his weakness he openly acknowledges his need of God.

You'll never wander very far when God is near you.