#deliverance

I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate. ↗

— Larissa Ione

#eternal-rider #larissa-ione #lords-of-deliverance- #respect

My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. ↗

— C.H. Spurgeon

#god #obedience #promises #business

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience. ↗

— Bubba Sparxxx

#chalk #deliverance #experience #first #first time

Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It’s only a matter of time. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #sustenance #trials #faith

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. ↗

— Keith Richards

#been #blues #deliverance #esoteric #generous

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#defenders #deliverance #deserve #does #heart

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#inspirational #interdependence #salvation #inspirational

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#deliverance #trauma #beauty

We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him. ↗

— Major W. Ian Thomas

#deliverance #sin-nature #nature