Linda Wood Rondeau

My Favorite Bible Verses

POINTS TO PONDER
Monday, March 17, 2025 by Frank Ball

 

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AUTHOR FRANK BALL

TO

MY FAVORITE BIBLE VERSE

 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV

The above verse is my selection to supplement Frank’s poignant thoughts on growing closer to the Lord and finding God’s will.

 

FRANK’S POINTS TO PONDER

If we can be thrilled by seeing God’s blessings, then we don’t have to be disappointed because we didn’t get what we wanted.


There’s nothing better than a close-call accident to teach us to be more careful.


God’s omnipotence and the extent of his lack of control due to free will deserve careful consideration if we are to understand reality.


To reach out and take God’s hands, we must first get up and take our baby steps toward him.


Misdirected worship is more noisy fanfare than heartfelt God fare.


If we want to provide genuine help to meet people’s needs, we must have God’s guidance to know when, where, and how.


All of God’s commandments are opportunities to experience more of his grace and glory.


My next step is crucial because the slightest deviation from God’s will takes me in a direction I don’t want to go.


When people see our actions, they should know that the Kingdom of God is here.


People need church, fellowship, and devotions to be energized, but I most need to bask in God’s presence for a long while.


The Good News is good only for the ones who hear, believe, and follow it.


Complete trust in God must reach beyond every reason we might have to doubt and believe anyway.


When we’re walking with God, we get to experience one thrilling adventure after another.


Praise brings us closer to God, where we put ourselves in a position to abandon our wants so we can have what God wants.


When God doesn’t explain his plan, we must trust him, step-by-step, and that’s his plan.


With a little faith and a very big God, we need only to abandon our self-serving desires and follow Jesus to be saved.


Until we die to self, we cannot really live as the Lord would have us live.


Before God can be in complete control of my life, I must completely surrender my desire to be in control.


Delight in the Lord has its greatest value when we can rejoice amid hard times.


My prayer is for God to answer my desire with what he knows is best for me, not what I think is best.


Patience is doing all we can while waiting for the opportunity to do more.


The problem with sin is not the action, but it is the desire that is contrary to what God would have us do.


Our suffering is the evidence of our faith and the proof or our testimony.
There is no greater blessing than to be used of God on Earth, for with each good deed, we get a taste of Heaven.


I might be 80 percent right and 20 percent, but I’m not sure which is the 20 percent.


Pursuing God’s will is not merely a methodology, but it is a motivation to please him above our self-serving.

 

ABOUT FRANK BALL


After thirty years of computer programming and business administration, I abandoned the technology I loved most so I could pursue what I hated most: writing and teaching. Why? Several vivid dreams led me to believe God wanted to change my direction. No matter how difficult that journey was, it had to be better than my own way. Therefore, in the twenty-five years that followed, writing and teaching became my greatest treasures in life.


I learned that if people want to experience God and fulfill the Great Commission they need to tell their life-changing stories. Well-crafted stories deliver an experience of truth that the audience can’t reject. Also, the storytellers’ lives are changed.

Christians acquire a new delight in being used of God to feed the multitudes that didn’t know what they were hungry for.


The Bible describes the powerful arrival of the Kingdom of God and the casting down of Satan by people who overcame by “the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.” The storytellers’ experience was so satisfying that they were willing to give their lives for the message (Revelation 12:10–11). For centuries, churches have preached the blood of the Lamb. But we might have missed the next important part: a ministry to help Christians tell their stories.


That’s why my Twitter handle is @ManWithTheSCOOP and I wholeheartedly support “Your Story for God’s Glory.”

For more about Frank and his books go to:

https://frankball.org/
 

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