Early Rising

Mark 1:35  

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.

Luke 1:78  

Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven

Exodus 34:4  

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

God’s Love for You

John 3:16  

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 3:1

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Hebrews 13:8  

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Evangelism:

"I am convinced that no Christian teacher can be a great spiritual power in China in whom this ideal is not embodied and manifested in an eminent degree. He must be more than a good man (shan jen); he must be a holy man (sheng jen), exhibiting the vigor of every right purpose, and the intensity of every devout affection. He must be a man full of the Holy Ghost, and the divinity within must energize mightily through him. He must be a man who will take time, not only to master the language and literature of this people, but also to be holy. It is not ourselves-our poor selves-the Chinese want to see, but God in us" – Griffith John

Thought:

Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving.  If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men.  But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God's blessing…Randy Alcorn