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This page was designed to refresh you with various Scripture verses, short  messages thoughts, and maxims.  We have placed, by the Lord's leading, many different "maxims" (an expression of a general truth or principal of conduct, a proverb),  These have been compiled by many different Authors.   Please, take time to truly "meditate," upon these and I believe the Lord will give you strength to walk with Him as you allow the revelation of these precious truths into your heart.   I believe this is truly "POWERED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD,"  TO BLESS YOU!

I Believe that the content of this page is more than just a "maxim,"  I believe these words came from the hearts of men who were truly seeking God.  I believe they are words to "chew on," Please read them slowly and prayerfully, and may the Lord bless and refresh you!

~    Gary R. Kane

 

I have chosen the the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hill-tops.

~    John Bunyan

 

The kingdom of heaven is not for the well meaning:   it is for the desperate.

~    James Denny

 

Jesus tells us that..."Narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it........" Beloved, that is because few want it!

~    Gary R. Kane

 

Romans 1:17 says....The just shall live by faith. "When I understood these words, "the just shall live by faith, I felt born again like a new man. I entered through the open doors into the very paradise of God!"

~    Martin Luther

 

You've got to have fire to set fire with.  You've got to have life to propagate life with.

~    Dwight L. Moody

 

God creates out of nothing, therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

~    Martin Luther

 

In our walk with the Lord, we spend far to much time,"picking off'" the bad fruits in our lives, instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to cut down the "root," of the problem.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

"No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken away from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear."

~    Martin Luther

 

I do not want people to come with me under certain reservations.   In battle you need soldiers who fear nothing.

~    Pere Didon

 

The only right a Christian has is to give up hi rights.

~ Oswald Chambers

 

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self,   and live wholly to Him.

~    Charles H. Spurgeon

 

Cursed be that love and unity for whose sake the Word of God must be put at stake.

~    Martin Luther

 

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real,   while you preachers too often speak of things that are real as though they were imaginary.

~    Thomas Betterton

 

In prayer....."I must wrestle like Jacob, and pant like David, and hope like Elijah and be persistent like Bartimeus, and cry with tears like my blessed Lord."

~    Alexander Smellie

 

If we are saved by grace, let us learn by grace.    For the same grace that turned us toward God, will now turn us away from sin.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

Jesus goes wherever you go

~Asia Kane~

 

He is the carpenter, and we are the wood. His handiwork is the dear, the Holy Cross, which is bound to follow upon the teaching of the gospel.  He plies His tools and works on us, in order to kill the "old Man"  within us.

~    Martin Luther

 

To want to merit grace by works which precede faith is to want to appease God by sins.

~    Martin Luther

 

Before we can soar on the heights with Christ; we must first learn to walk in the depths with Him.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

Be persuaded, timid soul, that He has loved you to much to cease loving you now

~    Fenelon

 

The spirit of prayer is pressing forth the soul out of this earthly life; it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God

~    William Law

 

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

~    Charles H. Brent

 

The fearful are in the forlorn of those who march to hell

~    William Gurnall

 

He that hath God's heart cannot want His arm.

~    William Gurnall

 

THERE IS NO DEATH, THAT THERE WAS NOT FIRST A LIFE! AND THERE CAN BE NO LIFE IN CHRIST, UNLESS THERE IS FIRST A DEATH TO SELF.

                                                                            ~  Gary R. Kane

 

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

~    William Gurnall

 

"Pray,"  But how?  "Without ceasing."  "Rejoice."  But when?  "Evermore."   "Give thanks."  for what?  "In everything."

~    William Gurnall

 

"The more holy a man is, the more humble, self-renouncing, self-abhorring, and the  more sensitive to every sin he becomes, and the more closely he clings to Christ."

~      Hodges Outlines

 

Some have more faith in the ability of Satan to keep them in bondage, than they do the ability of God to deliver them!

~    Gary R. Kane

 

"...Ignorance of God-ignorance of both his ways and the practice of communion with Him, lies at the root of the church's weakness today.

~    J. I. Paker

 

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life; his work and his life must go off the stage together.

~    William Gurnall

 

When the light comes on in a dark room; that room is immediately filled with the light. Now every object which could have caused me to stumble has been revealed!  So it is when rhe Holy Spirit comes into our heart. God is light!

~    Gary R. Kane

 

Mechanical worship is easy, but worthless.

~    Charles H. Spurgeon

 

If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust Him for the soul and not for the body?

~    Charles H. Spurgeon

 

The more you run away, is just the farther you have to walk back!

~    Jessica Renee' Kane

 

When afflicted, love can allow thee to groan, but not to grumble.

~    William Gurnall

 

Sin only sets Satan in the throne

~    William Gurnall

 

Since man was turned out of his paradise, he can do nothing without labour, except sin.

~    William Gurnall

 

It is not enough to have truth on our side, if we have not truth in our hearts

~    William Gurnall

 

Beloved there is no longer any need to "throw out a fleece to God,"  for we have the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

The gospel, what is it; but God's heart in print

~    William Gurnall

 

Never think to find honey in the pot, when God writes poison on the cover.

~    William Gurnall

 

Thou knowest, sinner, already, the best of thy sinful pleasure, but not the worst of thy punishment.

~    William Gurnall

 

Doubt and unbelief in the faithfulness of God and His word; is to blow the trumpet of pride.  For we are saying, God cannot! So I will do what must be done, it is up to me to work it out.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

While we are zealous for good works, let us be careful not to put them in the place of Christ's righteousness, and not to advance anything which may betray others into so dreadful a delusion..........

~    Matthew Henry

 

When a man throws a pebble from a high ledge into the river below, then walks away, he knows he shall never again hold that pebble.   So it is when we cast our cares on the Lord.  They are finally out of our hands.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

 

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will,  as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

~    Horace Bushnell

 

Sometimes God's silence can be deafening,

~    Gary R. Kane

 

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

~    William Gurnall

 

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin.  Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

~    William Gurnall

 

A man is born to live, but once he is "born from above,"  he lives his life for Christ.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

 

Where God is on one side, you may be sure to find the devil on the other.

~    William Gurnall

 

The work of salvation cannot be done by the candle-light of a natural understanding,  but by the sunlight of a gospel revelation

~    William Gurnall

 

We must come to good works by faith, not to faith by good works.

~    William Gurnall

 

When the Spirit of the Lord and His anointing is not genuinely present in our gatherings; some try to "counterfeit" His presence by excessive emotionalism.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

 

My understanding of the depths of God's heart, can only be realized by the illumination of the Holy Spirit,

~    Gary R. Kane

 

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe, and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it?

~    Hanna Whitall Smith

 

Just as a calf leaps from the stall, so it is at the death of a saint of God.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

 

See how the Pharisee in the temple stands, and justifies himself with lifted hands. whilst the poor publican, with downcast eyes, conscious of guilt, to God for mercy cries.

~    John Bunyan

 

I have no home, until I am in the realized presence of God.  This Holy presence is my inward home, and until I experience it, I am a homeless wonderer,  a straying sheep in waste howling wilderness.

~    Anonymous

 

The Grace of God, is an "enablement."  A drawing of God, that we could know His heart, and share in His glorious nature, and stand in His presence.   It is the power to keep His commands, and "stand" in the midst of His judgments.

~     Gary R. Kane

 

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe.

~ D. L. Moody


I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.


~ J. H. Jowett

 

Jesus bids us...."Take up your cross and follow me......",  Remember beloved, He was going to die upon it.

~    Gary R. Kane

 


If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies.
If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees.
Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for.


~ Charles Spurgeon

 

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?


~Corrie ten Boom

 

Just as swatting at a swarm of bees is futile, so is trying to rebuke the devil in the power of our flesh.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

 

It is better to have God’s approval, than the world’s applause:
there is a time shortly coming when a smile from God's face will be infinitely better than all the applause of men:
how sweet will that word be, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’ (Matt. 25: 21).


~ Thomas Watson

 

The self-righteous never apologize.


~ Leonard Ravenhill

 

The only way the Lord can use us as a fine tuned instrument, is by first tightening the strings.

~    Gary R. Kane

 

Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet.


~ Unknown



A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.


~Samuel Chadwick



God the Holy Ghost calls for crusaders…
How many ministers would be in church if it were not their job?
The answer will be found in the number who never go to the job that is outside.


~Samuel Chadwick



The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...
grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church.
He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.


~ Leonard Ravenhill

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God,
and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen,
they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.


~ John Wesley

I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach;
A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray.


~H. MacGregor



Some people do not like to hear much of repentance;
but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit,
I would desire to die preaching repentance
and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.


~Matthew Henry

 

 

There are five "deadly"  C's  in our lives

Complaining
Comparing
Condemning
Criticizing
Cutting Off

"SHORT READINGS"

 

In this section of, "POWERED BY THE SPIRIT,"   we want to bring you a series of short "thoughts and messages," we pray will both encourage, and stir you, to an even deeper love for Christ!  Some of these, are "excerpts," from sermons by Gary R. Kane.  God bless you as you meditate on these powerful thoughts and messages.

 

 

"IT IS FINISHED"

By: Gary R Kane

These words, "IT IS FINISHED," we find spoken by Jesus while on the cross! Look with me if you will at ....(John 19:30).         When he (Jesus), had received  the drink, Jesus said,  "It is finished."

          .........What do suppose Jesus meant when He said;  ..."It is finished?" Beloved He was saying, in effect. The curtain in the "temple," was only a picture of what was happening on the cross. The curtain being, "torn into,"    "the veil being rent,"  (that is the flesh). The body of Jesus as a sacrifice opening the way for us to have this, "intimate relationship and fellowship with God we've been speaking of."

Jesus, making the way for us to come, "directly," now, into the presence of Almighty God! His body, His flesh, torn, opened the way for us to have a new life and oneness with the Father. You see, beloved, we don't have to come to, or through, "a man,"  but, the way has been paved to come directly to God through His Son,  "BY THE BLOOD!

What He is saying here is this:   Because Jesus laid down His life on the altar called, "a cross," because He became the sacrifice for our sin, we now have,  "direct access to the throne room of God!"   The curtain in the temple that was torn into, was only the "picture," of the true curtain, Jesus Christ!

Once Jesus was nailed to that cross, and all our sins were placed upon Him, God's wrath came upon His own Son.  God's judgement that should have been upon us, was placed on His Son Jesus. The Lamb of God had been slain, the blood had been shed, the sacrifice was now complete!

Now God is saying to the world; "For all who look upon Jesus as their Lord and savior, and believe there is, "NO OTHER WAY."   "NO OTHER SACRIFICE." "NO OTHER OFFERING FOR THEIR SALVATION."   "NOTHING ELSE WHAT WHATSOEVER THAT YOU CAN DO TO COME TO HIM."   "TO KNOW HIM."   "NOW COME, TRUST ME BY FAITH IN ALL YOU DO!"

He is saying to all who come when I call, and believe your sins have been placed upon my Son, Jesus, and turn from those sins and trust me by faith, I will reveal myself to you! I in you and you in me, you can come into the,  "HOLY OF HOLIES."   "THAT'S  MY VERY PRESENCE!"     Because you are coming through the blood of Christ!  The veil has been removed!  The curtain is torn!  It is finished!      THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD!

Beloved, let this encourage you,and lift you up this day!   To know that no matter what is going on in your life, if you know Christ as Lord, you have all of Heaven itself now open to you! Don't try to,  "help God out in the energy of your flesh,"  It is finished!  It is all God!

~    Gary R. Kane

 

I have long withstood His grace,
Long provoked Him to His face,
Would not hearken to His calls,
Grieved Him by a thousand falls.
I have spilt His precious blood,
Trampled on the Son of God,
Filled with pangs unspeakable,
I, who yet am not in hell!
I my Master have denied,
I afresh have crucified,
And profaned His hallowed Name,
Put Him to an open shame.
Whence to me this waste of love?
Ask my Advocate above!
See the cause in Jesus' face,
Now before the throne of grace.
Jesus, answer from above,
Is not all Thy nature love?
Wilt Thou not the wrong forget,
Permit me to kiss Thy feet?
If I rightly read Thy heart,
If Thou all compassion art,
Bow Thine ear, in mercy bow,
Pardon and accept me now.
Jesus speaks, and pleads His blood!
He disarms the wrath of God;
Now my Father's mercies move,
Justice lingers into love.
Kindled His relentings are,
Me He now delights to spare,
Cries, "How shall I give thee up?"
Lets the lifted thunder drop.
Lo! I still walk on the ground:
Lo! an Advocate is found:
"Hasten not to cut Him down,
Let this barren soul alone."
There for me the Savior stands,
Shows His wounds and spreads His hands.
God is love! I know, I feel;
Jesus weeps and loves me still.
Pity from Thine eye let fall,
By a look my soul recall;
Now the stone to flesh convert,
Cast a look, and break my heart.
Now incline me to repent,
Let me now my sins lament,
Now my foul revolt deplore,
Weep, believe, and sin no more.
Long provoked Him to His face,
Would not hearken to His calls,
Grieved Him by a thousand falls.
I have spilt His precious blood,
Trampled on the Son of God,
Filled with pangs unspeakable,
I, who yet am not in hell!
I my Master have denied,
I afresh have crucified,
And profaned His hallowed Name,
Put Him to an open shame.
Whence to me this waste of love?
Ask my Advocate above!
See the cause in Jesus' face,
Now before the throne of grace.
Jesus, answer from above,
Is not all Thy nature love?
Wilt Thou not the wrong forget,
Permit me to kiss Thy feet?
If I rightly read Thy heart,
If Thou all compassion art,
Bow Thine ear, in mercy bow,
Pardon and accept me now.
Jesus speaks, and pleads His blood!
He disarms the wrath of God;
Now my Father's mercies move,
Justice lingers into love.
Kindled His relentings are,
Me He now delights to spare,
Cries, "How shall I give thee up?"
Lets the lifted thunder drop.
Lo! I still walk on the ground:
Lo! an Advocate is found:
"Hasten not to cut Him down,
Let this barren soul alone."
There for me the Savior stands,
Shows His wounds and spreads His hands.
God is love! I know, I feel;
Jesus weeps and loves me still.
Pity from Thine eye let fall,
By a look my soul recall;
Now the stone to flesh convert,
Cast a look, and break my heart.
Now incline me to repent,
Let me now my sins lament,
Now my foul revolt deplore,
Weep, believe, and sin no more.

 -Charles Wesley-

 

 

 

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