Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Justice without strength is powerless, strength without justice is tyrannical....Therefore, unable to make what is just
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Illustration: One day a small boy was trying to lift a heavy stone, but he couldn’t budge it. His father, passing by, stopped to watch his efforts. Finally he said to his son: “Are you using all your strength?’
“Yes, I am,” the boy cried, exasperated.
“No,” the father said calmly, “You’re not.
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 2, 2007
Billy Graham says: "As an evangelist, I have often felt too far spent to minister from the pulpit to men and women who have filled stadiums to hear a message from the Lord. Yet again and again my weakness has vanished, and my strength has been renewed. I have been filled with God’s power not only
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 23, 2004
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QUIET STRENGTH
There is a story about a sunken ship that illustrates the quietness of the spirit, but at the same time His Power in our lives.
"Several years ago engineers building a new bridge over the East River in New York, discovered that the wrecked hull of a ship, sunk many years before,
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2010
1 From strength to strength we sometimes go, then again we're sinking low,
In the shadow of a mountain looming high above our heads.
We need not fear what lies ahead for the Word has clearly said,
That our faith would be sufficient to make the mountain disappear.
CHORUS:
Speak to the mountain,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"God always gives us strength enough, and sense enough, for every thing
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Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 23, 2007
Illustrations: Forgiveness Is Strength
Christian forgiveness should not be a refusal of strength, but rather ought to manifest an alternative power; Christian love, whether of neighbors or of enemies, should be a sign not of repressed anger and hatred but of anger and hatred confronted and,
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Baptist
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 19, 2009
I found a story called “Pushing the Rock” told by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. It is the story of a weak, sickly man, who could not afford to go to the doctor and his condition seemed to grow worse.
The man lived in the deep back woods in an old log cabin. Out in front of his cabin was a huge
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Richard Tow on Nov 30, 2003
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The hope of heaven is a powerful strength for godly living that many people seem to virtually ignore in their daily lives. It was Myrtle Erickson who wrote:
Think of stepping on a shore and finding it heaven
of taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s hand
of breathing new air and finding it
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Charismatic
Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 29, 2011
STRENGTH WON'T DO IT
My Dad died in Dec 04. He was the strongest man I ever knew...he was the most honest man I ever knew….he was a good farmer...good mechanic ...good Dad...good husband...but he wasn't strong enough to defeat death. If I could write down the good deeds my Dad done in his life on
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Baptist
Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Oct 11, 2021
My beautiful mama was always so strong, a tower of strength, courage and faith that stood like a beacon for our family.
Psalm 46:1 says God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
As I meditated on this, I remembered a time when I was about 3 years old or so.
I saw myself
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
It takes courage to livecourage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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The strength of a nation derives from the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the
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