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At Times God Puts Us Through The Discipline Of Darkness To Teach Us To Heed Him. Song Birds Are Taught To Sing In The Dark, And We Are Put Into The Shadow Of God’s Hand Until We Learn To Hear Him.

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At Times God Puts Us Through The Discipline Of Darkness To Teach Us To Heed Him. Song Birds Are Taught To Sing In The Dark, And We Are Put Into The Shadow Of God’s Hand Until We Learn To Hear Him.

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Worship Is Giving God The Best That He Has Given You.

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Conscience Is The Internal Perception Of God's Moral Law.

Faith By Its Very Nature Must Be Tried, And The Real Trial Of Faith Is Not That We Find It Difficult To Trust God, But That God's Character Has To Be Cleared In Our Own Minds. Faith In Its Actual Working Out Has To Go Through Spells Of Unsyllabled Isolation. Never Confound The Trial Of Faith With The Ordinary Discipline Of Life. Much That We Call The Trial Of Faith Is The Inevitable Result Of Being Alive.

We Hear It Said That A Man Will Suffer In His Life Is He Does Not Pray; I Question It. What Will Suffer Is The Life Of The Son Of God Within Him, Which Is Nourished Not By Food But By Prayer...prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished.

Why Shouldn’t We Experience Heartbreak? Through Those Doorways God Is Opening Up Ways Of Fellowship With His Son. Most Of Us Collapse At The First Grip Of Pain. We Sit Down At The Door Of God’s Purpose And Enter A Slow Death Through Self-pity. And All The So-called Christian Sympathy Of Others Helps Us To Our Deathbed. But God Will Not. He Comes With The Grip Of The Pierced Hand Of His Son, As If To Say, “enter Into Fellowship With Me; Arise And Shine.” If God Can Accomplish His Purposes In This World Through A Broken Heart, Then Why Not Thank Him For Breaking Yours?

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

It Is Easy To Say We Believe In God As Long As We Remain In The Little World We Choose To Live In; But Get Out Into The Great World Of Facts, The Noisy World Where People Are Absolutely Indifferent To You, Where Your Message Is Nothing More Than A Crazy Tale Belonging To A Bygone Age, Can You Believe God There?

We Have To Pray With Our Eyes On God, Not On The Difficulties.

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When God Gives You A Vision And Darkness Follows, Wait. God Will Bring The Vision He Has Given You To Reality In Your Life If You Will Wait On His Timing. Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word

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Happiness Is Not A Sign That We Are Right With God; Happiness Is A Sign Of Satisfaction, That Is All, And The Majority Of Us Can Be Satisfied On Too Low A Level.

Patience Has The Meaning Of Testing-a Thing Drawn Out And Tested, Drawn Out To The Last Strand In A Strain Without Breaking, And Ending In Sheer Joy. The Strain On A Violin String When Stretched To The Uttermost Gives It Its Strength; And The Stronger The Strain, The Finer Is The Sound Of Our Life For God, And He Never Strains More Than We Are Able To Bear.

The Purpose Of Prayer Is To Reveal The Presence Of God Equally Present, All The Time, In Every Condition.

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Our Natural Virtues Can Never Come Anywhere Near What Jesus Christ Wants.

There Are Many Things That Are Perfectly Legitimate, But If You Are Going To Concentrate On God You Cannot Do Them.

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

If Through A Broken Heart God Can Bring His Purposes To Pass In The World, Then Thank Him For Breaking Your Heart.

Keep Your Life So Constantly In Touch With God That His Surprising Power Can Break Through At Any Point.

Now Is The Time For Us To Stop Seeking Our Own Satisfaction And To Pour Out Our Lives Before Him.

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

When A Man Gets To Despair He Knows That All His Thinking Will Never Get Him Out. He Will Only Get Out By The Sheer Creative Effort Of God. Consequently He Is In The Right Attitude To Receive From God That Which He Cannot Gain For Himself.

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.

God Makes Us As Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine To Please Him. Beware Of Competing Calls Once The Call Of God Grips You.

In The Spiritual Domain, Criticism Is Love Turned Sour. In A Wholesome Spiritual Life There Is No Room For Criticism. The Critical Faculty Is An Intellectual One, Not A Moral One. If Criticism Becomes A Habit It Will Destroy The Moral Energy Of The Life And Paralyse Spiritual Force. The Only Person Who Can Criticise Human Beings Is The Holy Spirit.

Intercession Is About Putting Ourselves In Other’s Shoes Or Having Sympathy With Others. But Intercessions Are About Having The Mind Of God And See Things Through His Perspective

When The Spirit Fills Us, We Are Transformed, And By Beholding God We Become Mirrors. You Can Always Tell When Someone Has Been Beholding The Glory Of The Lord, Because Your Inner Spirit Senses That He Mirrors The Lord’s Own Character. Beware Of Anything That Would Spot Or Tarnish That Mirror In You. It Is Almost Always Something Good That Will Stain It- Something Good, But Not What Is Best.

Every God-given Vision Will Become Real If We Will Only Have Patience.

Whenever The Insistence Is On The Point That God Answers Prayer, We Are Off The Track. The Meaning Of Prayer Is That We Get Hold Of God, Not Of The Answer.

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My Worth To God Publicly Is Measured By What I Really Am In My Private Life.

Be Relentless And Hard On Yourself If You Are In The Habit Of Talking About The Experiences You Have Had. Faith Based On Experience Is Not Faith; Faith Based On God’s Revealed Truth Is The Only Faith There Is.

The Battle Is Lost Or Won In The Secret Places Of The Will Before God, Never First In The External World.

You Can Never Argue Anyone Into The Kingdom Of Heaven, You Cannot Argue Anyone Anywhere. The Only Result Of Arguing Is To Prove To Your Own Mind That You Are Right And The Other Fellow Wrong. You Cannot Argue For Truth; But Immediately Incarnate Truth Is Presented, A Want Awakens In The Soul Which Only God Can Meet.

The Greatest Competitor Of True Devotion To Jesus Is The Service We Do For Him. It Is Easier To Serve Than To Pour Out Our Lives Completely For Him.

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.

The Honour Of Jesus Christ Is At Stake In Your Bodily Life. Are You Remaining Loyal To The Son Of God In The Things Which Beset His Life In You? Do You Continue To Go With Jesus? The Way Lies Through Gethsemane, Through The City Gate, Outside The Camp; The Way Lies Alone, And The Way Lies Until There Is No Trace Of A Footstep Left, Only The Voice, 'follow Me.'

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

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

We Must Build Our Faith Not On Fading Lights But On The Light That Never Fails.

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.

I Have To Get To The Point Of The Absolute And Unquestionable Relationship That Takes Everything Exactly As It Comes From Him. God Never Guides Us At Some Time In The Future, But Always Here And Now. Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.

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

So Long As There Is A Human Being Who Does Not Know Jesus Christ, I Am His Debtor To Serve Him Until He Does.

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

The Institutions Of Churchianity Are Not Christianity. An Institution Is A Good Thing If It Is Second; Immediately An Institution Recognizes Itself It Becomes The Dominating Factor.

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.

If Jesus Ever Commanded Us To Do Something That He Was Unable To Equip Us To Accomplish, He Would Be A Liar. And If We Make Our Own Inability A Stumbling Block Or An Excuse Not To Be Obedient, It Means That We Are Telling God That There Is Something Which He Has Not Yet Taken Into Account.

Spiritual Maturity Is Not Reached By The Passing Of The Years, But By Obedience To The Will Of God. Some People Mature Into An Understanding Of God’s Will More Quickly Than Others Because They Obey More Readily; They More Readily Sacrifice The Life Of Nature To The Will Of God.

One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God Is Going To Do? He Will Never Tell You. God Does Not Tell You What He Is Going To Do. He Reveals To You Who He Is.

Difficult Questions

When A Man Says He Must Develop A Holy Life Alone With God, He Is Of No More Use To His Fellow Men: He Puts Himself On A Pedestal, Away From The Common Run Of Men.........if We Are Abandoned To Jesus, We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.

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.

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.

The Deadliest Pharisaism Today Is Not Hypocrisy, But Unconscious Unreality.

Whenever You Get A Blessing From God, Give It Back To Him As A Love Gift.

Doubt Is Not Always A Sign That A Man Is Wrong; It May Be A Sign That He Is Thinking.

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.

Living A Life Of Faith Means Never Knowing Where You Are Being Led - But It Does Mean Loving And Knowing The One Who Is Leading. It Is Literally A Life Of Faith, Not Of Understanding And Reason- - A Life Of Knowing Him Who Calls Us To Go.

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.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life. And This Is How That Suffering Happens-if We Love Someone, But Do Not Love God, We Demand Total Perfection And Righteousness From That Person, And When We Do Not Get It, We Become Cruel And Vindictive; Yet We Are Demanding Of A Human Being Which He Or She Cannot Possibly Give.

We Give Credit To Human Wisdom When We Should Give Credit To The Divine Guidance Of God Being Exhibited Through Childlike People Who Were “foolish” Enough To Trust God’s Wisdom And His Supernatural Equipment.

Divine Guidance

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.

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

Our Lord’s Teaching Is Always Anti-self-realization. His Purpose Is Not The Development Of A Man; His Purpose Is To Make A Man Exactly Like Himself, And The Characteristic Of The Son Of God Is Self-expenditure.

Pray Because You Have A Father, Not Because It Quietens You, And Give Him Time To Answer.

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

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.

Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, But It Loves And Knows The One Who Is Leading.

Our Lord's First Obedience Was To The Will Of His Father, Not To The Needs Of Men; The Saving Of Men Was The Natural Outcome Of His Obedience To The Father.

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

If We Were Never Depressed We Would Not Be Alive - Only Material Things Don't Suffer Depression. If Human Beings Were Not Capable Of Depression, We Would Have No Capacity For Happiness And Exaltation. Whenever You Examine Yourself, Take Into Your Capacity For Depression.

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

Many Of Us Refuse To Grow Where We Are Put; Consequently, We Take Root Nowhere.

If Ever We Are Going To Be Made Into Wine, We Will Have To Be Crushed; You Cannot Drink Grapes. Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed. I Wonder What Kind Of Finger And Thumb God Has Been Using To Squeeze You, And You Have Been Like A Marble And Escaped?

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

I Am Called To Live In Such A Perfect Relationship With God That My Life Produces A Yearning For God In The Lives Of Others, Not Admiration For Myself. Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God. God’s Purpose Is Not To Perfect Me To Make Me A Trophy In His Showcase; He Is Getting Me To The Place Where He Can Use Me. Let Him Do What He Wants.

Our Lord Insists On The Social Aspect Of Our Lives: He Shows Very Distinctly That We Cannot Further Ourselves Alone.

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.

Every Man Is Made To Reach Out Beyond His Grasp.

The Prayer Of The Saints Is Never Self-important, But Always God-important.

Jesus Christ Carries On Intercession For Us In Heaven; The Holy Ghost Carries On Intercession In Us On Earth; And We The Saints Have To Carry On Intercession For All Men.

God's "nothings" Are His Most Positive Answers. We Have To Stay On God And Wait. Never Try To Help God To Fulfill His Word.

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.

We Have No Right To Judge Where We Should Be Put, Or To Have Preconceived Notions As To What God Is Fitting Us For. God Engineers Everything; Wherever He Puts Us, Our One Great Aim Is To Pour Out A Whole-hearted Devotion To Him In That Particular Work. 'whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth To Do, Do It With Thy Might.'

Beware Of The Inclination To Dictate To God What Consequences You Would Allow As A Condition Of Your Obedience To Him.

Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.

Don't Read To Remember; Read To Realize.

Adam Was Created To Be The Friend And Companion Of God, He Was To Have Dominion Over All The Life In The Air And Earth And Sea, But One Thing He Was Not To Have Dominion Over, And That Was Himself.

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

The Lasting Value Of Our Public Service For God Is Measured By The Depth Of The Intimacy Of Our Private Times Of Fellowship And Oneness With Him.

So Many Of Us Limit Our Praying Because We Are Not Reckless In Our Confidence In God. In The Eyes Of Those Who Do Not Know God, It Is Madness To Trust Him, But When We Pray In The Holy Spirit We Begin To Realize The Resources Of God, That He Is Our Perfect Heavenly Father, And We Are His Children.

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.

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