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Shellie Rushing Tomlinson QUOTES

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson QUOTES

1 " One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can’t hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like “all that”. We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody’s bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won’t let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you’ll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

2 " Southern Mamas are known for being subtle, like a freight train. "

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3 " All the building tools you and I will ever need are found between the pages of His living Word and in listening to His Spirit who comes to live in us. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

4 " I’d done my best to leave every child there with that message: “You matter. And it’s not based on your performance or the status of your family. If you breathe in and out, you have purpose. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

5 " On this side of the cross, God asks us to believe and trust in Jesus so we can behave—through the power of His Holy Spirit, the hope of glory, living through us. And then He asks us to keep our eyes on Jesus and keep believing so that we can keep on behaving. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

6 " There is only one shadow where all who come find passion and purpose, and that’s the shadow of the cross. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

7 " Have you ever tried to follow the Lord but felt like you were taking two steps forward and one step back? If so, I’d like to offer you a giant step. For, unlike my sister and her cohorts, your heavenly Father is rooting for you in this game of life. You don’t have to have a ton of starts and stops, and He will never trick you by changing the rules! The average believer can take a giant step toward a fulfilling relationship with Jesus by deciding that knowing about Him isn’t enough, by determining that he or she must know Him on a personal level to survive and thrive. Oh, and here’s the best part: if you want a life-changing relationship with your God, His answer to your fully surrendered “Father, may I?” is always, “Yes, you may. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

8 " It’s impossible to seek the friendship of Jesus in an ongoing and determined way and not be transformed over time in the process. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

9 " The truth? Only God knows what we have been called to do in our years here on earth, and what we will do. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

10 " Rather, our challenge is to live with one main goal: to know God and celebrate the One whom He has sent, Jesus Christ, His Son. In doing this we can’t help but become exactly who He purposed us to be. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

11 " The Bible can’t be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path if it’s gathering dust on the nightstand. While neglecting God’s Word is a mistake that brings much more serious consequences than the ones I suffered in my backyard, the good news is that I had an opportunity early on to stop and go back for the light. So do you. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

12 " How tragic that we would willingly coast on the fumes of a Sunday sermon when we need Jesus so today, and we each have been given the privilege of keeping our tanks topped off by nourishing ourselves in His Word and in His presence. Come on, y’all. Let’s live full to overflowing. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

13 " our thoughts may very well prove our existence, but they also dictate our experience. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

14 " person can read the Bible for years without coming to love and hunger for its holy truth—if, that is, the reading is done out of compulsion. Why? "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

15 " I talk a lot about this, and I’ll continue to share it as long as God gives me breath: introspection is the enemy of anyone who wants to grow closer to Jesus. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

16 " It’s precisely why you’ll find me telling the Lord these days that I simply can’t be trusted to be alone with my thoughts. I’ve come to understand that I need Him in all of them. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

17 " I don’t believe God’s Word opens to the person who reads it out of obligation "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

18 " We all are born with a desire to rule. If we can’t rule the whole world, we at least want to rule our own domain. And yet the only way we will ever learn to reign in life is by kneeling. In the words of Senior Pastor Emerson Ann, “He is our Shepherd; we are His sheep. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

19 " Just as our salvation is in Christ Jesus, so is our spiritual growth. We must think less of us and more of Him. Jesus is not some resource hidden under the muck of the believer’s heart. He is a person, the God-man who rescued us. When we worship Him, He transforms us. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

20 " apart from Him, my thoughts can deteriorate quickly. "

― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday