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Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/824994] BLOG: https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/missionary-jim-elliot-on-living-with.html |
70 years ago on this date, January 8, 1956, Missionary James Elliot, who was one of five missionaries killed while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador.
To remember this martyr, I will first post one of his quotes and explain why it is my trigger quote before posting another nine of his quotes.
Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats. – Jim Elliot
I love that quote by Jim Elliot, as it is an important reminder to us that we should live as though it is your last day on earth. It could be either your death or the return of Jesus Christ, either way means we are out of this world. Jim knew that he could die any day, that is why he reminded himself and his readers to prepare for death, as we do not know when it will come.
These two bible verses come to my mind whenever I remember this quote:
So teach us to number
our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. – Psalm 90:12 (KJV) [PHOTO SOURCE: https://kjvbibledaily.com/2018/12/31/psalms-9012-kjv/]
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“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” – Psalm 90:12 [PHOTO SOURCE: https://dtarbet.blog/2020/06/22/psalm-90/] |
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. – Proverbs 27:1 (ESV) [PHOTO SOURCE: https://share.google/qy2wlTxDOoxzDz1mw] |
PRAYERS AND QUOTES BY JIM ELLIOT:
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The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/437309] |
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jim_elliot_189244] |
Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on
earth and a safe path for today. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/824954]
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for
Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a
full one, like you, Lord Jesus. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/662226]
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://share.google/hAKkAUotGaxaq9c0a ..... https://au.pinterest.com/pin/lord-give-me-firmness-and-love--67765169369643528/] |
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything
temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the
tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling.
How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless'
longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of
Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released,
unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with
God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/697872]
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let
me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one
way or another on facing Christ in me. - Jim Elliot "Shadow of the Almighty" by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot,
1989. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/478450]
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Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/697867] |
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Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God. - Jim Elliot [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/390984] |
VIDEOS ABOUT THE END TIMES:
Jesus Warned Us: Only 3 Places Will Be Safe in the Tribulation
VIDEO SOURCE: https://youtu.be/q_hzdJXD7Rs?si=IWCOfNgITrebcBLr
Jesus Gave THIS Survival Instruction for the Last Days
Nov 30, 2025
VIDEO SOURCE: https://youtu.be/9YJGS0b1dDA?si=tG3yF4agKKDyYmYC
RELATED LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Elliot
https://www.leadershipresources.org/blog/christian-missionary-jim-elliot-quotes/
Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats. – Jim Elliot
https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/missionary-jim-elliot-on-living-with.html
It Will Cost You Everything To Be A Disciple Of Jesus Christ! - Dr. Steve Lawson
https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2019/01/it-will-cost-you-everything-to-be.html
GOING TO HEAVEN CHORAL MUSIC BY THE JAMAICANS
https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2019/08/going-to-heaven-choral-music-by.html
Jesus Must Increase: A Prayer for the New Year
https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-prayer-for-new-year.html
Prayers about the End Times
https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/02/two-prayers-about-end-times.html
https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/12/prayer-for-end-times.html
REVELATION 19: THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST
https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/revelation-19-return-of-jesus-christ.html
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Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there. — Michael Horton [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.idlehearts.com/635017/once-we-truly-grasp-the-message-of-the-new-testament-it-is] https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/10/prayer-word-takes-on-life.html |
BIBLE READING PLAN 2026
“Lord, thank you for this time you’ve given me to open your Word and discover who you are. Thank you that you don’t leave us in the dark about who you are and what you are doing in the world, but that you have revealed yourself and your will through the Bible, your sacred words to us. Lord, I need wisdom as I read your Word. You promise us in James 1:5 that we only have to ask for wisdom to receive it. Lord, please give me your wisdom now as I approach your word. Help me discern the truth of this text. Help me not rely on my own understanding. Thank you God for the clarity, encouragement and hope your Word brings. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.”
https://willingdon.org/app/uploads/2025/12/ScriptureTogether365_NOT-BOOKLET.pdf
https://davidjeremiah.blog/psalms-proverbs-31-day-reading-plan/
https://static.crossway.org/excerpt/2-esv-a-psalm-a-day-reading-plan.3.pdf
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