"People around you desperately need living examples

of Christian love, and you can be that example.

Love is the first fruit the Holy Spirit wants to produce and grow in your life (Gal. 5:22).

Don't resist His gentle prodding;

respond in obedience to the Spirit's leading to love as Christ loved."

-- Alexander Strauch --

"But the fact remains that the place in which we find ourselves 

is the very place in which the Master desires us to live our life!

There is no haphazard in God's world.

God leads every one of His children by the right way.

He knows where and under what influences, each particular life will ripen best."

-- J.R. Miller --

"Fulfillment is not a goal to achieve,
but always a by-product of sacrifice."
-- Elisabeth Elliot --

~Brittany

Is Your All on the Altar?

When I woke up this morning and was thinking on a difficult situation, this old favorite hymn came to mind.  It’s been a while since we’ve sung it, and I was amazed as I read the words.  I guess the Lord wanted me to hear this message this morning.  It is my hope that this song will minister to some of you as well.  May the Lord bless, and guide, and strengthen you, and may He help us each to lay all things on the altar so that He can fulfill His perfect will in our lives.  I know someday we will see the bigger picture.

~Brittany

Is Your All on the Altar?

You have longed for sweet peace,

And for faith to increase,

And have earnestly, fervently prayed;

But you cannot have rest

Or be perfectly blest

Until all on the altar is laid.

Would you walk with the Lord,

In the light of His Word,

And have peace and contentment always,

You must do His sweet will,

To be free from all ill,

On the altar your all you must lay.

Oh, we never can know what the Lord will bestow

Of the blessings for which we have prayed,

Till our body and soul He doth fully control,

And our all on the altar is laid.

Who can tell all the love

He will send from above,

And how happy our hearts will be made,

Of the fellowship sweet

We shall share at His feet,

When our all on the altar is laid.

Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid?

Your heart, does the Spirit control?

You can only be blessed

And have peace and sweet rest,

As you yield Him your body and soul.

"Measure thy life by loss instead of gain;

For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice,

And whoso suffers most hath most to give."

- Ugo Bassi -

~Brittany