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A Practical Help In Keeping Your Personal Purity Unblemished In Your Relations With Other People Is To Begin To See Them As God Does. Say To Yourself, “that Man Or That Woman Is Perfect In Christ Jesus! That Friend Or That Relative Is Perfect In Christ Jesus!

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A Practical Help In Keeping Your Personal Purity Unblemished In Your Relations With Other People Is To Begin To See Them As God Does. Say To Yourself, “that Man Or That Woman Is Perfect In Christ Jesus! That Friend Or That Relative Is Perfect In Christ Jesus!

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Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

One Of The Greatest Snares Is The Number Of Good Things We Might Do. Jesus Christ Never Did The Good Things He Might Have Done, He Did Everything He Ought To Do Because He Had His Eye Fixed On His Father's Will And He Sacrificed Himself For His Father.

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We Will Suffer A Sharp Painful Disullisionment Before We Fully Surrender. When People Really See Themselves As The Lord Sees Them, It Is Not The Terribly Offensive Sins Of The Fleshthat Shock Them, But The Awful Nature Of The Pride Of Their Own Hearts Opposing Jesus Christ. When They See Themselves In The Light Of The Lord, The Shame, The Horror, And Desperate Conviction Hit Home For Them.

Jesus Christ Became Incarnate For One Purpose, To Make A Way Back To God That Man Might Stand Before Him As He Was Created To Do, The Friend And Lover Of God Himself.

When We Are Consciously Aware Of Being Used As Broken Bread And Poured Out Wine, We Have Yet Another Level To Reach - A Level Where All Awareness Of Ourselves And What God Is Doing Through Us Is Completely Eliminated. A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint - A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

I Cannot Give Up My Will - I Must Exercise It, Putting It Into Action.

When God Gets Us Alone Through Suffering, Heartbreak, Temptation, Disappointment, Sickness, Or By Thwarted Friendship - When He Gets Us Absolutely Alone, And We Are Totally Speechless, Unable To Ask Even One Question, Then He Begins To Teach Us.

If We Are Abandoned To Jesus We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.

We Are Not Made For The Mountains, For Sunrises, Or For The Other Beautiful Attractions In Life - Those Are Simply Intended To Be Moments Of Inspiration. We Are Made For The Valley And The Ordinary Things Of Life And That Is Where We Have To Prove Our Stamina And Strength.

The Thing That Awakens The Deepest Fountain Of Gratitude In A Human Being Is That God Has Forgiven His Sin.

Never Make The Blunder Of Trying To Forecast The Way God Is Going To Answer Your Prayer.

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There Have Been Prophets And Students Who Handle The Bible Like A Child's Box Of Bricks; They Explain To Us The Design And Structure And Purpose; But As Time Goes On Things Do Not Work Out In Their Way At All. They Have Mistaken The Scaffolding For The Structure, While All The Time God Is Working Out His Purpose With A Great And Undeterred Patience.

He Must Deny His Right To Himself, And He Must Realize Who Jesus Christ Is Before He Will Bring Himself To Do It. Beware Of Refusing To Go To The Funeral Of Your Own Independence

God Saved Us To Make Us Holy, Not Happy. Some Experiences May Not Contribute To Our Happiness, But All Can Be Made To Contribute To Our Holiness. Vance Havner The Destined End Of Man Is Not Happiness, Nor Health, But Holiness. God's One Aim Is The Production Of Saints.

All Heaven Is Interested In The Cross Of Christ, All Hell Terribly Afraid Of It, While Men Are The Only Beings Who More Or Less Ignore Its Meaning.

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We Have To Take The First Step As Though There Were No God. It Is No Use To Wait For God To Help Us, He Will Not: But Immediately We Arise We Find He Is There.

Do We Not See God At Work In Our Circumstances? Dark Times Are Allowed And Come To Us Through The Sovreignty Of God. Are We Prepared To Let God Do What He Wants With Us? Are We Prepared To Be Separated From The Outward, Evident Blessings Of God? Until Jesus Christ Is Truly Our Lord, We Each Have Goals Of Our Own Which We Serve. Our Faith Is Real, But It Is Not Yet Permanent. And God Is Never In A Hurry. If We Are Willing To Wait, We Will See God Pointing Out That We Have Been Interested Only In His Blessings, Instead Of God Himself.

We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

Keep Your Life In Its Constant Contact With God That His Surprising Power May Break Out On The Right Hand And On The Left. Always Be In A State Of Expectancy, And See That You Leave Room For God To Come In As He Likes.

If A Crisis Has Come To You On Any Front, Surrender Your Will To Jesus Absolutely And Irrevocably.

We Have All Had Times...when We Have Seen Things From God's Standpoint And Have Wanted To Stay There; But God Will Never Allow Us To Stay There. ...[i]t Is In The Valley Where We Live For The Glory Of God.

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One Of The Most Subtle Burdens God Ever Puts On Us As Saints Is This Burden Of Discernment Concerning Other Souls. He Reveals Things In Order That We May Take The Burden Of These Souls Before Him And Form The Mind Of Christ About Them. It Is Not That We Bring God Into Touch With Our Minds, But That We Rouse Ourselves Until God Is Able To Convey His Mind To Us About The One For Whom We Intercede.

Sanctification Means The Impartation Of The Holy Qualities Of Jesus Christ. It Is His Patience, His Love, His Holiness, His Faith, His Purity, His Godliness, That Is Manifested In And Through Every Sanctified Soul. Sanctification Is Not Drawing From Jesus The Power To Be Holy; It Is Drawing From Jesus The Holiness That Was Manifested In Him, And He Manifests It In Me.

Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

Jesus Christ Demands The Same Unrestrained, Adventurous Spirit In Those Who Have Placed Their Trust In Him That The Natural Man Exhibits. If A Person Is Ever Going To Do Anything Worthwhile, There Will Be Times When He Must Risk Everything By His Leap In The Dark.

We Have The Idea That God Is Going To Do Some Exceptional Thing- That He Is Preparing And Equipping Us For Some Extraordinary Work In The Future. But As We Grow In His Grace We Find That God Is Glorifying Himself Here And Now, At This Very Moment. If We Have God’s Assurance Behind Us, The Most Amazing Strength Becomes Ours, And We Learn To Sing, Glorifying Him Even In The Ordinary Days And Ways Of Life.

The Greatest Competitor Of Devotion To Jesus Is Service To Him. It Is Never 'do, Do' With The Lord, But 'be, Be' And He Will 'do' Through You. The Only Way To Keep True To God Is By A Steady Persistent Refusal To Be Interested In Christian Work And To Be Interested Alone In Jesus Christ.

Intercession Means Raising Ourselves Up To The Point Of Getting The Mind Of Christ Regarding The Person For Whom We Are Praying.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

We Must Never Put Our Dreams Of Success As God's Purpose For Us; His Purpose May Be Exactly The Opposite. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And In His Power Now. His End Is The Process. It Is The Process, Not The End, Which Is Glorifying To God....his Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The 'afterwards' Of Obedience. If We Have A Further End In View, We Do Not Pay Sufficient Attention To The Immediate Present; If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment As It Comes Is Precious.

When Someone Thinks That To Develop A Holy Life He Must Always Be Alone With God, He Is No Longer Of Any Use To Others.

The Only Basis On Which To Work For God Is An Esteemed Appreciation Of His Deliverance.

No Matter What Changes God Has Performed In You, Never Rely On Them. Build Only On A Person, The Lord Jesus Christ, And On The Spirit He Gives.

Faith Is Not Intelligent Understanding, Faith Is Deliberate Commitment To A Person Where I See No Way.

Prayer Is The Practice Of Drawing On The Grace Of God. Don't Say, "i Will Endure This Until I Can Get Away And Pray." Pray Now - Draw On The Grace Of God In Your Moment Of Need. Prayer Is The Most Normal And Useful Thing; It Is Not Simply A Reflex Action Of Your Devotion To God. We Are Very Slow To Learn To Draw On God's Grace Through Prayer.

It Is Not The Thing On Which We Spend The Most Time That Moulds Us, But The Thing That Exerts The Greatest Power. Five Minutes With God And His Word Is Worth More Than All The Rest Of The Day.

The Christian Church Should Not Be A Secret Society Of Specialists, But A Public Manifestation Of Believers In Jesus.

It Is By No Haphazard Chance That In Every Age Men Have Risen Early To Pray. The First Thing That Marks Decline In Spiritual Life Is Our Relationship To The Early Morning.

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

God Never Forces A Person's Will Into Surrender, And He Never Begs. He Patiently Waits Until That Person Willingly Yields To Him. True Surrender Is A Matter Of Being 'united Together [with Jesus] In The Likeness Of His Death' (romans 6:5) Until Nothing Ever Appeals To You That Did Not Appeal To Him. And After You Surrender--then What? Your Entire Life Should Be Characterized By An Eagerness To Maintain Unbroken Fellowship And Oneness With God.

Watch Your Motive Before God; Have No Other Motive In Prayer Than To Know Him.

With Christ, It Is Not How Much We Give, But What We Do Not Give That Is The Real Test.

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God. That Is Why There Are So Few Fellow Workers With God And So Many Workers For Him. We Would Far Rather Work For God Than Believe In Him.

It Is A Tremendous Freedom To Get Rid Of All Self-considerat Ion And Learn To Care About Only One Thing-the Relationship Between Christ And Ourselves.

The Christian Who Is Truly Intimate With Jesus Will Never Draw Attention To Himself But Will Only Show The Evidence Of A Life Where Jesus Is Completely In Control. This Is The Outcome Of Allowing Jesus To Satisfy Every Area Of Life To Its Depth. The Picture Resulting From Such A Life Is That Of The Strong, Calm Balance That Our Lord Gives To Those Who Are Intimate With Him.

As Christians We Are Not Out For Our Own Cause At All, We Are Out For The Cause Of God, Which Can Never Be Our Cause. We Do Not Know What God Is After, But We Have To Maintain Our Relationship With Him Whatever Happens.

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Don't Forget To Pray Today Because God Did Not Forget To Wake You Up This Morning.

Prayer Is The Vital Breath Of The Christian; Not The Thing That Makes Him Alive, But The Evidence That He Is Alive.

It Is A Great Thing To See Physical Courage, And Greater Still To See Moral Courage, But The Greatest To See Of All Is Spiritual Courage; Oh, To See A Person Who Will Stand True To The Integrity Of Jesus Christ No Matter What He Or She Goes Through!

The Characteristic Of The New Birth Is That I Yield Myself So Completely To God That Christ Is Formed In Me.

No Man Has Ever Gone Through The Crisis Of Deliberately Making Jesus Lord And Found Him To Be A Failure.

God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede.

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