Elmer Towns Quotes

You must go beyond everything you have known about God and prayer in the past. You must pray many ways1 and at many times.

Gratitude is the least remembered of all virtues but is the acid test of character.

We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

O Lord, give me a daily burden for my children. Teach me how to pray for them, and lead me into effective intercession.

Just as my mother reminded me to live up to the reputation of my family name, we all need to be reminded to live up to the reputation of the name of Jesus.

If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. 1 J O H N 5: 1 41 5

But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14 NKJV).

write and rewrite the problem three or four times. Each time you process the information about the problem, you get a different view-point. Rewrite the problem again. Eventually you will clearly understand the problem, and your mind will focus on an answer.

studying God’s names reveals His character to us more intimately. Among other names, for example, we know God as Creator, Judge, Savior and Sustainer. By reflecting on His names, we can gain insight into His nature and understand more about how He works in our lives.

Also, to build a million-member church, the pastor must have the evangelistic power of Billy Graham, the expositional ability of Charles Spurgeon, the apologetic answers of Josh McDowell, the teaching focus of John MacArthur, the organizing skills of Bill Bright, and the persuasive ability of Ronald Reagan.

Church was a term describing a real community of believers who meet in the presence of Christ. A church is not described by what Christians do, but who they are. But over time a problem arose. Christians began going to church, rather than being the church. Then outsiders began seeing church as a place rather than a way of life.

The ever-reliable Bill Thompson filled the gap with a new character, Wallace Wimple. Wallace gave new meaning to the word “wimp,” for this was the nickname pinned on him by Fibber McGee. Wimple was terrified of his “big old wife,” the ferocious, often-discussed but never-present “Sweetie Face.” Also in 1941 came Gale Gordon as Mayor LaTrivia, who would arrive at the McGee house, start an argument, and become so tongue-tied that he’d blow his top. A year later, all these characters disappeared: Gordon went into the Coast Guard, and when Thompson joined the Navy, four characters went with him. With LaTrivia, Boomer, Depopoulous, Wimple, the Old Timer, and Gildersleeve all on the “recently departed” list, Fibber found a new devil’s advocate in the town doctor. Arthur Q. Bryan, who had played the voice of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Brothers cartoons, became Doc Gamble, continuing the verbal brickbats begun by Gildersleeve. Their squabbles could begin over a disputed doctor bill—McGee always disputed doctor bills—or erupt out of nowhere about anything at all.

He’d asked one of his employees, an Ecuadoran named José Maria, to go to town and buy him an iPod and load it up with a playlist he’d entitled “Ranch Music.” It consisted largely of film scores. Cuts from Ennio Morricone like “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” the theme from A Fistful of Dollars, “L’Estasi Dell’oro (The Ecstasy of Gold),” and “La Resa dei Conti (For a Few Dollars More),” Elmer Bernstein’s theme from The Magnificent Seven, “The Journey,” and “Calvera’s Return,” and Jerome Moross’ theme from The Big Country. Big, wonderful, rousing, swelling, sweeping, triumphalist music from another era. It was music that simply wasn’t made anymore. The pieces were about tough (but fair) men under big skies on horseback, their women waiting for them at home, and bad guys—usually Mexicans—to be vanquished. In

We pour our hearts out to God on behalf of our children and it not only makes us feel better, it accomplishes something. God is able. He can do far more than we could ever imagine or guess or request in our wildest dreams. He is powerful. His power works in us and in our children so that it will all ultimately add up to His glory.

We need to pray that when tested they will not give in, but even when they fall, they will get back up and keep going for God. Sometimes they will get off track. We need to pray that those times are brief and that they will retrace their steps back to the Lord. As Jesus prayed for Peter, we need to pray that our children will learn from their mistakes to depend more completely on the Lord.

Pain is the road to both birth and death.

My first reaction was to say, “No, people will think I am a Pentecostal if I do it.

As a matter of research, a patient’s confidence will actually help block more pain signals to the brain than the morphine-medicine itself. What does that say to you? Our fears make us hurt a lot more than we actually do. And our confidence reduces our pain—we don’t hurt as much as we should.

Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger.

They are equal in nature (that is, they are both boys). Yet they are separate persons. In most cases one will submit to the other’s expertise, insight or perceived authority in the relationship. In this sense one might be described as subservient in duty to the other, at least in certain areas.

Korah

the most high God [El Elyon], the possessor of heaven and earth” (14:22), he is telling this Gentile leader that God is the king’s leader and that the king is God’s servant.

DAY 3

The failure of rebellious Israelites to enter the Promised Land could be a picture of the faithless organized church of today failing to possess the heavenly things promised by Christ.

Yet it seems that the more the Communists persecuted the church in China, the more it exploded in growth and power—again, without Western missionaries, Western money, Western technology, or Western guidance.

Today, at least 10 percent of the Chinese have accepted Christianity.

They didn’t seem to pray as hard as I prayed, and when God answered, they didn’t seem to rejoice as much as I did.

If you are serious enough to take up the discipline of fasting, you can expect resistance, interference and opposition. Plan for it, insofar as you are able. Do not be caught unawares. Remember that you are attempting to advance in your spiritual journey and to gain ground for the Kingdom. That necessitates taking ground away from the enemy - and no great movement of the Holy Spirit goes unchallenged by the enemy. (Intro)

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

...some Christians are in bondage to alcohol, drug, sex, and tobacco addictions. Others struggle with compulsive eating, extramarital affairs, and lying. Any sin that can't be broke with ordinary 'willpower' can be termed a besetting sin. Scripture promises, 'No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man' (1 Cor. 10:13). Your temptation to sin is not unique; others face it as well. You, however, are chained to it like a compulsive slave. Yet Scripture promises 'a way out' (see 1 Cor. 10:13). The Disciple's Fast can be that very way of escape for you, as a disciple." (Chapter 2)

He will be your Shaddai—your strength and satisfaction.

You may think nothing is happening when people are silent, but when the mouth is quiet, the heart, soul and mind can be actively engaged. In silence, people repent of their sins. In silence, people meditate on Scriptures and grow spiritually. In silence, people stand in awe of God.

Methods are many, principles are few. Methods may change, principles never do.

When you bless someone, you are making a commitment to that person. This means you shouldn’t walk through the mall trying to lay your hand in blessing on every person you see—you can’t help carry out the blessing you give. When you bless a person, it should be because you have a relationship with that person. Through that relationship, you will help them reach the blessing you speak.