Ozzone 11-6 > Do you trust Jesus now? In the moment? Or is your faith based in future events?

 

#Ozzone 10-28> I am put right with God because prior to everything—prior to all my beliefs, actions, and experiences—Christ died.

 

Ozzone 10-21> Are you impulsive? Stop it! Impulsiveness is fine in a child but disastrous in an adult

 

Ozzone 10-16 > Distress and Conviction Produce a Harvest – Pray the Lord of the Harvest

 

Too often we intercessors pray for God to lift the burden from someone who is struggling, to heal them from sickness or pain when God is trying to produce a harvest. We end up praying against God. Pray the Lord of the Harvest to send workers and when He does, then pray for healing.

Ozzone 10-15 > The Limitlessness of the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the World

 

Ozzone 10-12 > Jesus sought His Father’s direction in His life; We need to seek Jesus' direction in ours.

 

Ozzone 10-11 > Do you have a friend whom you are comfortable with even in long periods of silence?

 

Larry King once interviewed Mother Theresa and asked her what she said when she prayed. She responded, “I don’t say anything, I just listen.”

King then asked what God said to her when she prayed. She stated, “He doesn’t say anything either, He just listens. And if you can’t understand that, I can’t explain it to you.”

God doesn’t listen to your words, but to your heart, we should try to emulate Him during some of our prayer time. To just be with Him.

Ozzone 10-10 > Study the Bible all you want, but if you are not obedient to the Lord, you will never grow in your relationship with Him.

 

Ozzone 10-9 > The great need in each of our lives isn’t to do things or to experience things but to believe them

 

Ozzone 10-7 > Sin is deliberate and emphatic independence from God which makes the righteousness of God impossible

 

Ozzone 10-4 > It is in the valley that we prove our faith, whether we are willing to be battered into shape and use by the Lord.

 

Ozzone 10-3 > The power of the saint lies in the coming down from the mountain and in the living down in humility

 

Ozzone 10-1 > Mountaintop experiences are for inspiration – Demon-possessed valleys are our job

 

Ozzone 9-30 > How much are you willing to suffer for God? Are you willing to identify with His cross?

 

And it will benefit God’s Kingdom, and will ultimately benefit you. Have you so surrendered your right to yourself to God that you will allow Him to make you into broken bread and poured-out wine? He will knead you, put you on the back burner until you rise, and then throw you into the oven. After all that, He will pull you apart like Jesus was pulled apart on the Cross. Are you willing to endure the pain?

Ozzone 9-29 > The ‘Call of God’ has nothing to do with salvation or sanctification. It is supernatural, and it comes with a glow.

 

Ozzone 9-27 > > God is not gentle when it comes to that which can hurt you or Him

 

‘Christ has no tenderness toward that which would ultimately ruin someone in His service’! That is likely true for both this world and Eternity. When, 26 years ago I shook my fist at God, He was not the least bit gentle in His rebuke. But I soon realized how arrogant I was to think God had anything other than His kingdom and my good character in mind. He is using me now and preparing me for Eternity. And I praise Him for it.

Ozzone 9-26 > Restoring the broken relationship – step by step

 

What if your ‘gift’ isn’t money or food but intercessory prayer? Is God saying here that if He convicts us of a broken relationship our prayers must wait until we have restored our relationship with our brother or sister in Christ? Is this an explanation of why some of our prayers seem to go unanswered?

Ozzone 9-24 > Have you surrendered your right to yourself to the Lordship of Jesus Christ? That's what He wants.

 

Ozzone 9-23 > Are you willing to go up to your Jerusalem with Jesus? Do you know what it means?

 

About 15 years ago I wrote a worship song with the line “Let me walk with you, Lord”, at the beginning and end of the chorus. Only now has it struck me what that actually means. It’s not just being in the Presence of the Lord, but it means following Him wherever He goes, and, inevitably, He went up to Jerusalem and His Gethsemane, His scourging, and His crucifixion. Am I prepared to go through those trials in my life? Should I expect anything less? We evangelicals like to take the easiest path, like to accept the suffering of Jesus as all that’s needed to save me. But we are called upon to identify with Jesus Christ in His sufferings, and how can we do anything less? Philippians 3:10.

Ozzone 9-22 > Jesus Christ never enforces obedience – this is one of the main differences between Christianity and false religions.