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Am I Prepared To Let God Grip Me By His Power And Do A Work In Me That Is Worthy Of Himself? Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God's Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me, And He Has To Get Me Into The Attitude Of Mind And Spirit Where At Any Cost I Will Let Him Sanctify Me Wholly.

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Am I Prepared To

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Am I Prepared To Let God Grip Me By His Power And Do A Work In Me That Is Worthy Of Himself? Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God's Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me, And He Has To Get Me Into The Attitude Of Mind And Spirit Where At Any Cost I Will Let Him Sanctify Me Wholly.

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Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God, And Either Sin Or God Must Die In My Life.

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.

Don't Read To Remember; Read To Realize.

Naturally, We Are Inclined To Be So Mathematical And Calculating That We Look Upon Uncertainty As A Bad Thing...certainty Is The Mark Of The Common-sense Life. To Be Certain Of God Means That We Are Uncertain In All Our Ways, We Do Not Know What A Day May Bring Forth. This Is Generally Said With A Sigh Of Sadness; It Should Rather Be An Expression Of Breathless Expectation.

If We Understood What Happens When We Use The Word Of God, We Would Use It Oftener.

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Our Lord Did Not Say It Was Wrong To Pray In The Corners Of The Street, But He Did Say It Was Wrong To Have The Motive To "be Seen Of Men".

Sanctification Costs To The Extent Of "an Intense Narrowing Of All Our Interests On Earth And An Immense Broadening Of All Our Interests In God.

The Heart Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Christ. The Reason Salvation Is So Easy To Obtain Is That It Cost God So Much. The Cross Was The Place Where God And Sinful Man Merged With A Tremendous Collision And Where The Way To Life Was Opened. But All The Cost And Pain Of The Collision Was Absorbed By The Heart Of God.

Prayer Is Not Getting Things From God. That Is A Most Initial Stage; Prayer Is Getting Into Perfect Communion With God: I Tell Him What I Know He Knows In Order That I May Get To Know It As He Does.

It Is Easy For Us To Tarnish God's Character Because He Never Argues Back; He Never Tries To Defend Or Vindicate Himself.

If You Have Ever Prayed In The Dawn You Will Ask Yourself Why You Were So Foolish As Not To Do It Always: It Is Difficult To Get Into Communion With God In The Midst Of The Hurly-burly Of The Day.

God Never Gives Strength For Tomorrow, Or For The Next Hour, But Only For The Strain Of The Minute.

We Are In Danger Of Forgetting That We Cannot Do What God Does, And That God Will Not Do What We Can Do.

The Degree Of Panic Activity In My Life Is Equal To The Degree Of My Lack Of Personal Spiritual Experience.

The Knowledge That God Has Loved Me Beyond All Limits Will Compel Me To Go Into The World To Love Others In The Same Way.

The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is Not--do Your Duty, But--do What Is Not Your Duty. It Is Not Your Duty To Go The Second Mile, To Turn The Other Cheek, But Jesus Says If We Are His Disciples We Shall Always Do These Things. There Will Be No Spirit Of--"oh, Well, I Cannot Do Any More, I Have Been So Misrepresented And Misunderstood". . . Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Are Always Looking For Justice; The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is--never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Live It.

We Have Become So Self-centered That We Go To God Only For Something From Him, And Not For God Himself.

If We Are Obsessed By God, Nothing Else Can Get Into Our Lives - Not Concerns, Nor Tribulation, Not Worries.

We Are So Busy Telling God Where We Would Like To Go. We Wait With The Idea Of Some Great Opportunity, Something Sensational, And When It Comes We Are Quick To Cry, 'here Am I.' Readiness For God Means That We Are Ready To Do The Tiniest Little Thing Or The Great Big Thing, It Makes No Difference.

The Real Meaning Of Eternal Life Is A Life That Can Face Anything Is Has To Face Without Wavering. If We Take This View, Life Becomes One Great Romance, A Glorious Opportunity For Seeing Marvelous Things All The Time. God Is Disciplining Us To Get Us Into This Central Place Of Power.

We Are In Danger Of Forgetting That We Cannot Do What God Does, And That God Will Not Do What We Can Do. We Cannot Save Ourselves Nor Sanctify Ourselves, God Does That; But God Will Not Give Us Good Habits, He Will Not Give Us Character, He Will Not Make Us Walk Aright. We Have To Do All That Ourselves.

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Our Ordinary Abilities Will Never Worship God Unless They Are Transformed By The Indwelling Son Of God.

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The Greatest Answer To Prayer Is That I Am Brought Into A Perfect Understanding With God, And That Alters My View Of Actual Things.

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To Terrorize A Man Into Believing In God Is Never The Work Of God, But The Work Of Human Expediency. If We Want To Convince A Congregation Of A Certain Thing, We May Use Terror To Frighten Them Into It; But Never Say That Is God's Way, It Is Our Way. To Call That God's Method Is A Travesty To The Character Of God.

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A Good Book, In The Language Of The Book-sellers, Is A Salable One; In That Of The Curious, A Scarce One; In That Of Men Of Sense, A Useful And Instructive One.

Many People Begin Coming To God Once They Stop Being Religious.there's Only One Master Of The Heart-jesus, Not Religion.

True Intercession Involves Bringing The Person, Or The Circumstance That Seems To Be Crashing In On You, Before God, Until You Are Changed By His Attitude Toward That Person Or Circumstance. People Describe Intercession By Saying, "it Is Putting Yourself In Someone Else’s Place." That Is Not True! Intercession Is Putting Yourself In God’s Place; It Is Having His Mind And His Perspective.

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Jesus Christ Can Afford To Be Misunderstood; We Cannot. Our Weakness Lies In Always Wanting To Vindicate Ourselves.

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One Life Totally Devoted To God Is Of More Value To Him Than One Hundred Lives Which Have Been Simply Awakened By His Spirit.

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Am I Learning How To Use My Bible? The Way To Become Complete For The Master’s Service Is To Be Well Soaked In The Bible; Some Of Us Only Exploit Certain Passages. Our Lord Wants To Give Us Continuous Instruction Out Of His Word; Continuous Instruction Turns Hearers Into Disciples.

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

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Sin Is Not Wrong Doing, It Is Wrong Being, Deliberate And Emphatic Independence Of God.

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Depression Tends To Turn Us Away From The Everyday Things Of God’s Creation. But Whenever God Steps In, His Inspiration Is To Do The Most Natural, Simple Things- Things We Would Never Have Imagined God Was In, But As We Do Them We Find Him There.

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Disillusionment Means Having No More Misconceptions, False Impressions, And False Judgments In Life; It Means Being Free From These Deceptions. Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life.

Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion.

Temptations In The Life Of Faith Are Not Accidents; Each Temptation Is Part Of A Plan, A Step In The Progress Of Faith.

The Real Test Of A Saint Is Not One's Willingness To Preach The Gospel, But One's Willingness To Do Something Like Washing The Disciples' Feet - That Is, Being Willing To Do Those Things That Seem Unimportant In Human Estimation But Count As Everything To God.

The Real Attitude Of Sin In The Heart Towards God Is That Of Being Without God; It Is Pride, The Worship Of Myself, That Is The Great Atheistic Fact In Human Life.

The People Who Influence Us Most Are Not Those Who Buttonhole Us And Talk To Us, But Those Who Live Their Lives Like The Stars In Heaven And The Lilies In The Field, Perfectly Simply And Unaffectedly. Those Are The Lives That Mould

Paul Welcomed Hearbreak, Disillusionment And Tribulation For Only One Reason - - These Things Kept Him Immovable In His Devotion To The Gospel Of God.

Many Of Us Have A Mental Conception Of What A Christian Should Be, And The Lives Of The Saints Become A Hindrance To Our Concentration On God.

The Bible Is Not A Book That You Can Open And Say, 'now, Lord, Put Some Magic Into My Soul That Will Open Up The Meaning Of This Book.' There Is Only One Way Really To Understand The Word, And That Is Through Wrestling With The Circumstances And Happenings Of Life.

Trust Completely In God, And When He Brings You To A New Opportunity Of Adventure, Offering It To You, See That You Take It.

The Prayer Of The Feeblest Saint Who Lives In The Spirit And Keeps Right With God Is A Terror To Satan. The Very Powers Of Darkness Are Paralyzed By Prayer; No Spiritualistic Seance Can Succeed In The Presence Of A Humble Praying Saint. No Wonder Satan Tries To Keep Our Minds Fussy In Active Work Till We Cannot Think In Prayer.

God Never Fits His Word To Suit Me; He Fits Me To Suit His Word.

The Christian Life Is One Of Spiritual Courage And Determination Lived Out In Our Flesh

The Bible Talks Plentifully About Joy, But It Nowhere Talks About A 'happy Christian.' Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not. Remember, Jesus Christ Had Joy, And He Prayed 'that They Might Have My Joy Fulfilled In Themselves.'

When We Pray "in The Name Of Jesus" The Answers Are In Accordance With His Nature, And If We Think Our Prayers Are Unanswered It Is Because We Are Not Interpreting The Answer Along This Line.

Beware Of Any Work For God That Causes Or Allows You To Avoid Concentrating On Him.

Begin To Know Him Now, And Finish Never

You May Often Have To Watch Jesus Christ Wreck A Life Before He Saves It.

There Comes The Baffling Call Of God In Our Lives Also. The Call Of God Can Never Be Stated Explicitly; It Is Implicit. The Call Of God Is Like The Call Of The Sea, No One Hears It But The One Who Has The Nature Of The Sea In Him. It Cannot Be Stated Definitely What The Call Of God Is To, Because His Call Is To Be In Comradeship With Himself, For His Own Purposes, And The Test Is To Believe That God Knows What He Is After.

We Always Have Visions, Before A Thing Is Made Real. When We Realize That Although The Vision Is Real, It Is Not Real In Us, Then Is The Time That Satan Comes In With His Temptations, And We Are Apt To Say That It Is No Use To Go On. Instead Of The Vision Becoming Real, There Has Come The Valley Of Humiliation.

The Whole Point Of Getting Things Done Is Knowing What To Leave Undone.

The Cross Did Not Happen To Jesus: He Came On Purpose For It. He Is “the Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World.

Nothing In Our Lives Is A Mere Insignificant Detail To God.

In Christian Work Our Initiative And Motivation Are Too Often Simply The Result Of Realizing That There Is Work To Be Done And That We Must Do It. Yet That Is Never The Attitude Of A Spiritually Vigorous Saint. His Aim Is To Achieve The Realization Of Jesus Christ In Every Set Of Circumstances.

Am I Always In Contact With Reality, Or Do I Only Pray When Things Have Gone Wrong, When There Is A Disturbance In The Moments Of My Life?

Jesus Christ Reveals, Not An Embarrassed God, Not A Confused God, Not A God Who Stands Apart From The Problems, But One Who Stands In The Thick Of The Whole Thing With Man.

God's Grace Turns Out Men And Women With A Strong Family Likeness To Jesus Christ, Not Milksops.

The Remarkable Thing About God Is That When You Fear God, You Fear Nothing Else, Whereas If You Do Not Fear God, You Fear Everything Else.

If There Is A God

Be Rightly Related To God, Find Your Joy There, And Out Of You Will Flow Rivers Of Living Water.

Worship God In The Difficult Circumstances, And When He Chooses, He Will Alter Them In Two Seconds.

It Is Not What A Man Does That Is Of Final Importance, But What He Is In What He Does. The Atmosphere Produced By A Man, Much More Than His Activities, Has The Lasting Influence.

It Is In The Middle That Human Choices Are Made; The Beginning And The End Remain With God. The Decrees Of God Are Birth And Death, And In Between Those Limits Man Makes His Own Distress Or Joy.

We Must Learn To Live In The Ordinary 'gray' Day According To What We Saw On The Mountain.

Beware Of Any Work For God That Causes Or Allows You To Avoid Concentrating On Him. A Great Number Of Christian Workers Worship Their Work. The Only Concern Of Christian Workers Should Be Their Concentration On God.

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.

We Are Not Meant To Be Seen As God's Perfect, Bright-shining Examples, But To Be Seen As The Everyday Essence Of Ordinary Life Exhibiting The Miracle Of His Grace.

It Is A Trap To Presume That God Wants To Make Us Perfect Specimens Of What He Can Do— God’s Purpose Is To Make Us One With Himself.

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.

The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.

There Is Actually Only One Thing You Can Dedicate To God, And That Is Your Right To Yourself. If You Will Give God Your Right To Yourself, He Will Make A Holy Experiment Out Of You - And His Experiments Always Succeed.

It's One Thing To Go Through A Crisis Grandly, Yet Quite Another To Go Through Every Day Glorifying God When There Is No Witness, No Limelight, And No One Paying Even The Remotest Attention To Us.

The True Expression Of Christian Character Is Not In Good-doing But In God-likeness.

Obedience To The Call Of Christ Nearly Always Costs Everything To Two People- The One Who Is Called, And The One Who Loves That One.

As Long As We Are Flippant And Stupid And Shallow And Think That We Know Ourselves, We Shall Never Give Ourselves Over To Jesus Christ; But When Once We Become Conscious That We Are Infinitely More Than We Can Fathom, And Infinitely Greater In Possibility Either For Good Or Bad Than We Can Know, We Shall Be Only Too Glad To Hand Ourselves Over To Him.

It Is Impossible To Live The Life Of A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer. You Will Find That The Place To Enter In Is In Your Business, As You Walk Along The Streets, In The Ordinary Ways Of Life, When No One Dreams You Are Praying, And The Reward Comes Openly, A Revival Here, A Blessing There.

Seeing Is Never Believing: We Interpret What We See In The Light Of What We Believe. Faith Is Confidence In God Before You See God Emerging, Therefore The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

Get Into The Habit Of Dealing With God About Everything.

The Emphasis To-day Is Being Put On The Fact That We Have To Save Men; We Have Not. We Have To Exalt The Saviour Who Saves Men, And Then Make Disciples In His Name.

It Is Easier To Serve God Without A Vision, Easier To Work For God Without A Call, Because Then You Are Not Bothered By What God Requires; Common Sense Is Your Guide, Veneered Over With Christian Sentiment. You Will Be More Prosperous And Successful, More Leisure-hearted, If You Never Realize The Call Of God.

Leave The Irreparable Past In His Hands, And Step Out Into The Irresistible Future With Him.

Prayer Is Simple, Prayer Is Supernatural, And To Anyone Not Related To Our Lord Jesus Christ, Prayer Is Apt To Look Stupid.

The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Utmost For His Highest

Peace Is The Deepest Thing A Human Personality Can Know; It Is Almighty

There Is Always One Fact More In Every Man's Case About Which We Know Nothing.

Our Yesterdays Present Irreparable Things To Us; It Is True That We Have Lost Opportunities Which Will Never Return, But God Can Transform This Destructive Anxiety Into A Constructive Thoughtfulness For The Future. Let The Past Sleep, But Let It Sleep On The Bosom Of Christ. Leave The Irreparable Past In His Hands, And Step Out Into The Irresistible Future With Him.

Jesus Christ Founded His Kingdom On The Weakest Link Of All-a Baby.

Is The Son Of God Praying In Me, Or Am I Dictating To Him?... Prayer Is Not Simply Getting Things From God, That Is A Most Initial Form Of Prayer; Prayer Is Getting Into Perfect Communion With God. If The Son Of God Is Formed In Us By Regeneration, He Will Press Forward In Front Of Our Common Sense And Change Our Attitude To The Things About Which We Pray.

If My Ruling Disposition Is Self-interest, I Perceive That Everything That Happens To Me Is Always For Or Against My Self-interest; If, On The Other Hand, My Ruling Disposition Is Obedience To God, I Perceive Him To Be At Work For My Perfecting In Everything That Happens To Me.

We Are Only What We Are In The Dark; All The Rest Is Reputation.

It Is Not True To Say That God Wants To Teach Us Something In Our Trials. Through Every Cloud He Brings Our Way, He Wants Us To Unlearn Something.

Every Time We Pray Our Horizon Is Altered, Our Attitude To Things Is Altered, Not Sometimes But Every Time, And The Amazing Thing Is That We Don't Pray More.

Anything That Belittles Or Obliterates The Holiness Of God By A False View Of The Love Of God, Is Untrue To The Revelation Of God Given By Jesus Christ.

The Majority Of Us Do Not Enthrone God, We Enthrone Common Sense. We Make Our Decisions And Then Ask The Real God To Bless Our God's Decision.

Never Focus Your Eyes On The Obstacle Or The Difficulty. The Obstacle Will Be A Matter Of Total Indifference To The River That Will Flow Steadily Through You If You Will Simply Remember To Stay Focused On The Source.

Grace Is The Overflowing Favor Of God, And You Can Always Count On It Being Available To Draw Upon As Needed.

The Test Is The Sixty Seconds Of Every Minute, And The Sixty Minutes Of Every Hour, Not Our Times Of Prayer And Devotional Meetings.

A River Reaches Places Which Its Source Never Knows. And Jesus Said That, If We Have Received His Fullness, "rivers Of Living Water" Will Flow Out Of Us, Reaching In Blessing Even "to The End Of The Earth" Regardless Of How Small The Visible Effects Of Our Lives May Appear To Be.

The One True Mark Of A Saint Of God Is The Inner Creativity That Flows From Being Totally Surrendered To Jesus Christ.

A Ready Person Never Needs To Get Ready.

Never Forget That Our Capacity And Capability In Spiritual Matters Is Measured By, And Based On, The Promises Of God.

We Are Not Sent To Do Battle For God, But To Be Used By God In His Battles.

The Best Measure Of A Spiritual Life Is Not Its Ecstasies But Its Obedience.

Beware Of Anything That Competes With Your Loyalty To Jesus Christ.

Am I As Spontaneously Kind To God As I Used To Be, Or Am I Only Expecting God To Be Kind To Me? Am I Full Of The Little Things That Cheer His Heart Over Me, Or Am I Whimpering Because Things Are Going Hardly With Me? There Is No Joy In The Soul That Has Forgotten What God Prizes.

Never Make A Principle Out Of Your Experience. Allow God To Be As Creative With Others As He Is With You.

God’s Training Is For Now, Not Presently. His Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The Afterwards Of Obedience; We Can Get It Wrong When We Think Of The Afterwards. What Men Call Training And Preparation, God Calls The End… If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment Is Precious.

Very Few Of Us Know Anything About Loyalty To Christ -- For My Sake. It Is That Which Makes The Iron Saint.

If You Are Going Through A Time Of Discouragement, There Is A Time Or Great Personal Growth Ahead.

If We Are Going To Live As Disciples Of Jesus, We Have To Remember That All Noble Things Are Difficult. The Christian Life Is Gloriously Difficult, But The Difficulty Of It Does Not Make Us Faint And Cave In, It Rouses Us Up To Overcome.

The Proof That Our Relationship Is Right With God Is That We Do Our Best Whether We Feel Inspired Or Not.

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

We Can Never Be Like Lillies In The Garden Unless We Have Spent Time As Bulbs In The Dark, Totally Ignored.

When You Are Insulted, You Must Not Only Not Resent It, But You Must Make It An Opportunity To Exhibit The Son Of God In Your Life. And You Cannot Imitate The Nature Of Jesus-it Is Either In You Or It Is Not. A Personal Insult Becomes An Opportunity For A Saint To Reveal The Incredible Sweetness Of The Lord Jesus.

One Great Effect Of Prayer Is That It Enables The Soul To Command The Body. By Obedience I Make My Body Submissive To My Soul, But Prayer Puts My Soul In Command Of My Body.

The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

If Your Faith Is In Experiences, Anything That Happens Is Likely To Upset That Faith.

There Are Not Three Stages In Spiritual Life-worship, Waiting, And Work. Some Of Us Go In Jumps Like Spiritual Frogs. We Jump From Worship To Waiting To Work. God's Idea Is That The Three Should Go Together. They Were Always Together In The Life Of Our Lord.

The Great Enemy Of The Life Of Faith In God Is Not Sin, But The Good Which Is Not Good Enough. The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Not Good Enough

When You Are In The Dark, Listen, And God Will Give You A Very Precious Message.

We Must Learn To Tell Ourselves The Truth On The Basis Of God’s Word.

Our Lord’s Making Of A Disciple Is Supernatural. He Does Not Build On Any Natural Capacity Of Ours At All. God Does Not Ask Us To Do The Things That Are Naturally Easy For Us- He Only Asks Us To Do The Things That We Are Perfectly Fit To Do Through His Grace, And That Is Where The Cross We Must Bear Will Always Come.

When A Man Is At His Wits' End It Is Not A Cowardly Thing To Pray, It Is The Only Way He Can Get In Touch With Reality.

The Resentment Of Discipline Of Any Kind Will Warp The Whole Life Away From God's Purpose.

Many Of Us Suffer From Temptations From Which We Have No Business To Suffer.

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.

Sanctification Means More Than Being Freed From Sin. It Means The Deliberate Commitment Of Myself To The God Of My Salvation, And Being Willing To Pay Whatever It May Cost.

What The World Needs Is Not 'a Little Bit Of Love', But A Surgical Operation.

Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God.

Readiness For God Means That We Are Ready To Do The Tiniest Little Thing Or The Great Big Thing, It Makes No Difference

God Places His Saints Where They Will Bring The Most Glory To Him, And We Are Totally Incapable Of Judging Where That May Be.

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