Some Encouraging Thoughts from Johny (Late John George Samuel)

Wisdom

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. (John. 14:1-2; Prov. 17:22; Ps. 37:4)

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (Matt. 23:14; Luke. 17:19; Mark. 5:19)

Christ seeks not the circumference of our life, but its very centre. (Prov. 23:26; 1 Cor. 6:17; Gal. 5:24)

God’s Sufficiency

Patience is enjoying the journey. It’s not climbing the mountain to get to the top; it’s climbing the mountain to enjoy the climb. Enjoy the process of your own life. (1 Pet. 5:7; Ps. 37:5; 55:22)

We may not always understand God’s ways, but He will illumine our path and prove to be a faithful guide. (Nah 1:3; Ps. 18:20; 32:8)

We need not fear the perils AROUND us as long as the eye of the Lord is UPON us. (Ps. 34:15; 32:8; 2 Chr. 16:9)

God’s Intervention

When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty. If He is going to do something really wonderful, He begins with an impossibility. (1 Thess. 5:18; Heb. 13:15; Job. 1:21)

God may not give us an easy journey to the Promised Land, but He will give us a safe one. (Gal. 3:13; Rom. 6:18; Ps. 59:15)

The world may ask you to hit-back and get it out of your system, but God asks you to sit-back and get Him into your system, allowing Him to handle things. (James. 5:10; Heb. 10:36; 5:8, 9)

Some Encouraging thoughts from Johny (Late John George Samuel)

Love and Sacrifice

• Preaching the gospel calls for a simple life style and a serious purpose. (2 Tim. 2:2; Luke. 14:26; John. 8:31)

• Serving the Lord, is saying ‘no’ to self will and ‘yes’ to His will constantly. (Phil. 4:2; 1 Tim. 1:18; Neh. 3:1)

• Real love does not calculate the cost. (2 Cor. 10:17; Matt. 25:21; 1 Cor. 4:2)

Relax in God

• The Lord will fight for you; you only need to be still. (Jer. 15:19; 1 Sam. 17:47; Is. 41:12)

• More prayer, more exercise of faith, more patient waiting, and the result is blessing in abundance. (Luke. 18:1; 1 Thess. 5:16; Eph. 6:18)

• Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. (Job. 5:1; Like. 2:15; Is. 40:31; Ps. 37:7)

Character Improvement

•  It’s good to be battered, if eventually you’re bettered. (Jer. 18:1-5; Matt. 14:25; 15:25)

• Endure hardships as discipline; God is treating you as His son. (Acts. 14:22; 1 Tim. 3:12; 1 Pet. 2:21)

• The turning-lathe that has the sharpest knives produces the finest work. (Rom. 8:30; 2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 2:10) 

Some Encouraging thoughts from Johny (Late John George Samuel)

Hope

• The glory of tomorrow is rooted in the drudgery of today. (John. 15:2; Acts. 14:22; Esther. 8:15)

• Can I call it suffering when the Lord is there to comfort and guide me? (Is. 40:1; 1 Chr. 7:22; Rom. 15:4)

• We don’t know how the Lord works; but of one thing we’re sure, He works! (Is. 35:3-4; 55:8-9)

Faith

• Delayed answers to prayer give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him under apparent repulses. (Job. 42:1-3; Deut. 8:2; Ps. 11:5; Job. 23:10) 

• Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. (1 Cor. 16:13; Eph. 3:16; 6:10; 2 Cor 12:9; Is. 40:31; 2 Tim. 2:1)

• If you start something in faith, keep the faith. Your faith will win out in the end. (John. 5:24; Acts. 14:22; Heb. 6:12; Heb. 12:2-3)

Prayer

• Prayer is the telephone system between my heart and God. The Bible is His way of communicating with me. I need both. (1 Pet. 21:1; James. 1:22; Jer. 23:19)

• Allowing God to answer our prayer in His own way, in His own time, is well worth the waiting. (Ex. 33:20; Deut. 3:26; 1 Cor. 12:8)

• God is there to hear us when we have a special need. But how pleased He must be when we come to Him just because we want to talk. (1 Chr. 16:11; Ps. 63:1; Ps. 119: 2-4)