Cultivated by the hands of time and watered by the clouds of adversity, the family tree stands sure in the middle of life’s most turbulent of storms. If believed in, she will even bear the fruit of love, laughter and memories.
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
“No faith is as precious as that which lives and triumphs in adversity.”
~ Charles Spurgeon
When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost…
The prophet is only useful so long as he is…
• Stoned as a public nuisance…
• Calling us to repentance…
• Disturbing our comfortable routine…
• Shattering our sacred conventions, and
• Breaking our respectable idols.
~ Huss Shearer / “Restitution of All Things Spoken by the Prophets”
I am a simple man. I don’t do much in the way of fancy or complicated. I’ve learned, in the military, on the job, in ministry….master the basics, work them ‘by the numbers’, and KEEP AT IT with a bulldog tenacity!
Pray, Fast, Read, Study, Obey, Submit, Love, Worship, Witness, Give, Forgive…..stay sensitive, and keep your heart clean!
~ J. Samuel Willoughby
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
~ St. Augustine
If our love to one another shows that we are his disciples, then our lack of love to one another shows that we are not.
~ Joel Urshan
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
~ Langston Hughes
I thank God that thorns have roses! It helps me to know that on the worst of days…when I hurt …when I don’t understand…when it doesn’t make sense; there is still the fragrance and beauty of God’s Presence somewhere in the mix.
~ J. S. Willoughby
Danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
~ Michaelangelo
Being overshadowed by The Cross changes who you have been. Being overshadowed by The Christ changes who you will be. He speaks and breathes DESTINY!
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished, but because the wounded are merciful.
~ Max Lucado
“To succeed in life , you need three things; a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
~ Reba McEntire
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong admit it, whenever you’re right, shut up.”
~ Ogden Nash
Hope is the poor man’s bread…He that lives in hope dances without music.
~ George Herbert
“I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the teacher is immortal.”
~ Jesse Stuart
“Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The measure of a man is determined by three things…what he FLEES from, what he FOLLOWS after, and what he FIGHTS for.”
~ Philip Harrelson
Proper apologies have 3 parts…
1. What I did was wrong.
2. I feel badly that I hurt you.
3. What do I need to do to fix this?
When someone says, “IF I have offended…” There’s no real apology being offered.
~ Author Unknown
So many preachers are famous for their relationship with the church, unlike the old time preachers who were famous for their relationship with God. Having revival in tents was the norm. We need a sawdust hunger in this cathedral generation.
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
D. L. Moody’s critics said they didn’t like his way of doing things. “I don’t like it either, but I prefer it to your way of NOT doing things”
In Genesis 32, Jacob wrestled with God all night in the Mud, the Blood, and the Fear. But in the morning, out of Jabbok’s mud, limped a Mighty Prince of God named Israel!
All you know right now is the fear and turmoil of the fight of your life; but if you’ll hold on, God’s got some changes for you! A NEW name! A NEW walk! Power with God and men!
~ J. S. Willoughby
“We never are really men of prayer in the best sense until filled with the Holy Ghost.”
~ S. A. Keen (1896)
“In the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.”
~ John Eldridge
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
~ Augustine
Maturity is when you have the perfect opportunity to seek revenge on someone who has hurt you, and you let the moment pass without regret! To forgive is a testimony to your ability to love beyond yourself… unlike unforgiving, which is simply a testimony to pride.
~ Leah L. Barnaby
Musician hint #5 we worship through our instrument, but it’s also important to have a worship experience off of your INSTRUMENT.
~ Author Unknown
“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”
~ Author Unknown
There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
…We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Faith IS Faithfulness! It is impossible to separate the two.
~ K. W. Douglas
True faith will inevitably manifest itself in the performance of works of obedience. The performance of works are the result of faith and the fruit of justification.
~ R.C. Sproul
A gift from God does not have to be showcased with flashing revelation or shrouded with dark mystery….a gift from above can be as simple as a heartfelt smile.
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
Praise given in the beginning of a speech comes off as flattery. The same praise given in the middle comes off as sincerity.
~ Winston Churchill
QUIT is a four letter word people use when they curse themselves!
~ Joel Urshan
“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
~ Unknown
Talent will take you, where only integrity will keep you.
~ T.F. Tenny.
Whatever happens–just keep running. Through rain, past the pain. Give the world your best stuff. Pick yourself up–and help someone else–go on, you matter. God made only one–you.
~ Mark Grisham
Lessons of my Father: “Loyalty is kin to Royalty. It cannot fail one time or it abdicates it’s Throne. It cannot be a hobo on the Highway of Life, It must be the Driver in Grand Style.”
~ Bishop Kenneth Phillips
“True slavery occurs when those enslaved are unaware of their captivity.”
~ Author unknown
“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feels like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”
~ Andy Stanley
“If we have the word without the spirit, we dry up. If we have the spirit without the word, we blow up. But if we have the word and the spirit, we grow up.”
~ Unknown
Exposure of sin is God’s last great act of mercy!
~ Bishop Chester Wright
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
~ John C. Maxwell
“There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.”
~ J. T. Pugh
“Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there!”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Looking into the eyes of others to see who you truly are will only give you their perception of you and not God’s. The only place we can find our true identity is on our knees at the foot of the cross.
~ Nathaniel J. Gillis
Every day Orville and Wilbur Wright went out to fly their plane, they would bring enough materials for multiple crashes. That way, when they crashed, they could rebuild the plane and try again. Think about it a moment: every time they went out–every time–they knew they were going to fail. But that’s what they did: Crash and rebuild. Crash and rebuild. And that’s why they finally took off.
~ Jay Jones
The first step to weathering a storm is to make sure your shelter has a strong foundation.
~ Anonymous
Every fresh division or party in the church gives to the world a contradiction as to the oneness of the Body of Christ, and the truthfulness of the gospel. Multitudes are bowing down and burning incense to a doctrine rather than Christ….The Spirit is laboring for the unity of believers today, for the “one body”, that the prayer may be answered “that they all may be one, that the world may believe”.
~ Frank Bartleman.
The best way to determine if you have the heart of a servant, is how you react when you’re treated like one.
~ Author Unknown
Everyone of us must plant some trees we will never sit under. We must live not only for today but for tomorrow. I hope we do nothing in our today that our grandchildren will have to undo.
~ T.F. Tenney
Joseph’s trials didn’t create his character …they revealed it.
~ T.F. Tenney
An unfair situation is God’s way of setting you up for a miracle. To ignore it is to give in to fear. To lash out for justice is to react in anger. The best course of action is to respond honestly with humility and watch God turn it for your good.
~ Rob McKee
Visit our teaching blog » Meat in Due Season
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Quotable Quotes 4
Cultivated by the hands of time and watered by the clouds of adversity, the family tree stands sure in the middle of life’s most turbulent of storms. If believed in, she will even bear the fruit of love, laughter and memories.
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
“No faith is as precious as that which lives and triumphs in adversity.”
~ Charles Spurgeon
When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost…
The prophet is only useful so long as he is…
• Stoned as a public nuisance…
• Calling us to repentance…
• Disturbing our comfortable routine…
• Shattering our sacred conventions, and
• Breaking our respectable idols.
~ Huss Shearer / “Restitution of All Things Spoken by the Prophets”
I am a simple man. I don’t do much in the way of fancy or complicated. I’ve learned, in the military, on the job, in ministry….master the basics, work them ‘by the numbers’, and KEEP AT IT with a bulldog tenacity!
Pray, Fast, Read, Study, Obey, Submit, Love, Worship, Witness, Give, Forgive…..stay sensitive, and keep your heart clean!
~ J. Samuel Willoughby
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
~ St. Augustine
If our love to one another shows that we are his disciples, then our lack of love to one another shows that we are not.
~ Joel Urshan
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
~ Langston Hughes
I thank God that thorns have roses! It helps me to know that on the worst of days…when I hurt …when I don’t understand…when it doesn’t make sense; there is still the fragrance and beauty of God’s Presence somewhere in the mix.
~ J. S. Willoughby
Danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
~ Michaelangelo
Being overshadowed by The Cross changes who you have been. Being overshadowed by The Christ changes who you will be. He speaks and breathes DESTINY!
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished, but because the wounded are merciful.
~ Max Lucado
“To succeed in life , you need three things; a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
~ Reba McEntire
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong admit it, whenever you’re right, shut up.”
~ Ogden Nash
Hope is the poor man’s bread…He that lives in hope dances without music.
~ George Herbert
“I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the teacher is immortal.”
~ Jesse Stuart
“Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The measure of a man is determined by three things…what he FLEES from, what he FOLLOWS after, and what he FIGHTS for.”
~ Philip Harrelson
Proper apologies have 3 parts…
1. What I did was wrong.
2. I feel badly that I hurt you.
3. What do I need to do to fix this?
When someone says, “IF I have offended…” There’s no real apology being offered.
~ Author Unknown
So many preachers are famous for their relationship with the church, unlike the old time preachers who were famous for their relationship with God. Having revival in tents was the norm. We need a sawdust hunger in this cathedral generation.
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
D. L. Moody’s critics said they didn’t like his way of doing things. “I don’t like it either, but I prefer it to your way of NOT doing things”
In Genesis 32, Jacob wrestled with God all night in the Mud, the Blood, and the Fear. But in the morning, out of Jabbok’s mud, limped a Mighty Prince of God named Israel!
All you know right now is the fear and turmoil of the fight of your life; but if you’ll hold on, God’s got some changes for you! A NEW name! A NEW walk! Power with God and men!
~ J. S. Willoughby
“We never are really men of prayer in the best sense until filled with the Holy Ghost.”
~ S. A. Keen (1896)
“In the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.”
~ John Eldridge
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
~ Augustine
Maturity is when you have the perfect opportunity to seek revenge on someone who has hurt you, and you let the moment pass without regret! To forgive is a testimony to your ability to love beyond yourself… unlike unforgiving, which is simply a testimony to pride.
~ Leah L. Barnaby
Musician hint #5 we worship through our instrument, but it’s also important to have a worship experience off of your INSTRUMENT.
~ Author Unknown
“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”
~ Author Unknown
There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
…We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Faith IS Faithfulness! It is impossible to separate the two.
~ K. W. Douglas
True faith will inevitably manifest itself in the performance of works of obedience. The performance of works are the result of faith and the fruit of justification.
~ R.C. Sproul
A gift from God does not have to be showcased with flashing revelation or shrouded with dark mystery….a gift from above can be as simple as a heartfelt smile.
~ Nathaniel Jordan Gillis
Praise given in the beginning of a speech comes off as flattery. The same praise given in the middle comes off as sincerity.
~ Winston Churchill
QUIT is a four letter word people use when they curse themselves!
~ Joel Urshan
“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
~ Unknown
Talent will take you, where only integrity will keep you.
~ T.F. Tenny.
Whatever happens–just keep running. Through rain, past the pain. Give the world your best stuff. Pick yourself up–and help someone else–go on, you matter. God made only one–you.
~ Mark Grisham
Lessons of my Father: “Loyalty is kin to Royalty. It cannot fail one time or it abdicates it’s Throne. It cannot be a hobo on the Highway of Life, It must be the Driver in Grand Style.”
~ Bishop Kenneth Phillips
“True slavery occurs when those enslaved are unaware of their captivity.”
~ Author unknown
“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feels like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”
~ Andy Stanley
“If we have the word without the spirit, we dry up. If we have the spirit without the word, we blow up. But if we have the word and the spirit, we grow up.”
~ Unknown
Exposure of sin is God’s last great act of mercy!
~ Bishop Chester Wright
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
~ John C. Maxwell
“There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.”
~ J. T. Pugh
“Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there!”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Looking into the eyes of others to see who you truly are will only give you their perception of you and not God’s. The only place we can find our true identity is on our knees at the foot of the cross.
~ Nathaniel J. Gillis
Every day Orville and Wilbur Wright went out to fly their plane, they would bring enough materials for multiple crashes. That way, when they crashed, they could rebuild the plane and try again. Think about it a moment: every time they went out–every time–they knew they were going to fail. But that’s what they did: Crash and rebuild. Crash and rebuild. And that’s why they finally took off.
~ Jay Jones
The first step to weathering a storm is to make sure your shelter has a strong foundation.
~ Anonymous
Every fresh division or party in the church gives to the world a contradiction as to the oneness of the Body of Christ, and the truthfulness of the gospel. Multitudes are bowing down and burning incense to a doctrine rather than Christ….The Spirit is laboring for the unity of believers today, for the “one body”, that the prayer may be answered “that they all may be one, that the world may believe”.
~ Frank Bartleman.
The best way to determine if you have the heart of a servant, is how you react when you’re treated like one.
~ Author Unknown
Everyone of us must plant some trees we will never sit under. We must live not only for today but for tomorrow. I hope we do nothing in our today that our grandchildren will have to undo.
~ T.F. Tenney
Joseph’s trials didn’t create his character …they revealed it.
~ T.F. Tenney
An unfair situation is God’s way of setting you up for a miracle. To ignore it is to give in to fear. To lash out for justice is to react in anger. The best course of action is to respond honestly with humility and watch God turn it for your good.
~ Rob McKee
Visit our teaching blog » Meat in Due Season
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Rev. J. S. Willoughby is an Evangelist and Bible Teacher, as well as a published author. His teaching ministry, Focal Points carries him into many different venues. Emphasizing…discipleship training, small group development, structures and strategies for leadership, and ministry mentoring for young men and women. His evangelistic ministry has been blessed of God with great anointing, and powerful demonstration of the Spirit in healings and miracles as he ministers the Word of Faith.