Corrie Ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place and concentration camp survivor

Pastor Breck Boyd, pastor at The Resting Place, Sisters, OR
Discouraged in the work of life,Disheartened by its load,Shamed by its failures or its fears,I sink beside the road;—But let me only think of Thee,And then new heart springs up in me. S. LONGFELLOW
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944) Sister Aimee was a passionate woman devoted to the work of the Lord. Full of boundless creativity, she used every bit of her abundant energy to exemplified God’s miraculous mercy. Among being a missionary, a leader of revival and reform, she established The Foursquare Church,…
I think of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, “I want it NOW!” How many times did I pray for something never realizing how truly awful for me it would have been to have received it!? Mercifully, our Lord knows what it best for us, because He holds the plans for our…
I think I find most help in trying to look on all interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one’s work. Then one can feel that perhaps one’s true work— one’s work for God —consists in doing…
This little bird has had its supper, and now it is getting ready to go to sleep here, quite secure and content, never troubling itself what its food will be, or where its lodging on the morrow. Like David, it abides under the shadow of the Almighty. It sits on its little twig content, and…