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Believe Steadfastly On Him And Everything That Challenges You Will Strengthen Your Faith. There Is Continual Testing In The Life Of Faith Up To The Point Of Our Physical Death, Which Is The Last Great Test. Faith Is Absolute Trust In God-trust That Could Never Imagine That He Would Forsake Us.

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Believe Steadfastly On Him And Everything That Challenges You Will Strengthen Your Faith. There Is Continual Testing In The Life Of Faith Up To The Point Of Our Physical Death, Which Is The Last Great Test. Faith Is Absolute Trust In God-trust That Could Never Imagine That He Would Forsake Us.

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If We Have Never Had The Experience Of Taking Our Commonplace Religious Shoes Off Our Commonplace Religious Feet, And Getting Rid Of All The Undue Familiarity With Which We Approach God, It Is Questionable Whether We Have Ever Stood In His Presence.

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.

Never Become Attached To Anything That Continues To Hurt God. For You To Be Free Of It, God Must Be Allowed To Hurt Whatever It May Be.

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.

God Is Not Saving The World; It Is Done. Our Business Is To Get Men And Women To Realize 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.

Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God.

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

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.

Reflected Peace Is The Proof That You Are Right With God Because You Are At Liberty To Turn Your Mind To Him.

Every Element Of Our Own Self-reliance Must Be Put To Death By The Power Of God.

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.

Never Take Your Obedience As The Reason God Blesses You; Obedience Is The Outcome Of Being Rightly Related To God.

Joy Is The Great Note All Through The Bible. We Have The Notion Of Joy That Arises From Good Spirits Or Good Health, But The Miracle Of Joy Of God Has Nothing To Do With A Man's Life Or His Circumstances Or The Condition He Is In. Jesus Christ Does Not Come To A Man And Say, 'cheer Up.' He Plants Within A Man The Miracle Of The Joy Of God's Own Nature.

Jesus Said, 'go ... And Make Disciples,' Not Converts To Your Opinions.

It Is A Life Of Faith, Not Of Intellect And Reason, But A Life Of Knowing Who Makes Us “go.

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

When God Gives Us A Vision, We Must Transact Business With Him At That Point, No Matter What The Cost.

The Strain Of Life Is What Builds Our Strength. If There Is No Strain, There Will Be No Strength.

All Christians Have The Spirit Of Christ, But Not All Christians Have The Mind Of Christ.

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.

Prayer Is The Evidence That I Am Spiritually Concentrated On God.

When We Lose Sight Of God We Become Hard And Dogmatic. We Hurl Our Own Petitions At God's Throne And Dictate To Him As To What We Wish Him To Do. We Do Not Worship God, Nor Do We Seek To Form The Mind Of Christ. If We Are Hard Towards God, We Will Become Hard Towards Other People.

Trust God, And Do The Next Thing.

The Only Way We Can Be Of Use To God Is To Let Him Take Us Through The Crooks And Crannies Of Our Own Characters.

When A Man Is Born From Above, The Life Of The Son Of God Is Born In Him, And He Can Either Starve That Life Or Nourish It. Prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished. Our Ordinary Views Of Prayer Are Not Found In The New Testament. We Look Upon Prayer As A Means Of Getting Things For Ourselves; The Bible's Idea Of Prayer Is That We May Get To Know God Himself.

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

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

Our Spiritual Life Cannot Be Measured By Success As The World Measures It, But Only By What God Pours Through Us- And We Cannot Measure That At All

Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.

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

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.

The Root Of All Sin Is The Suspicion That God Is Not Good.

It Is Better To Run The Risk Of Being Considered Indecisive, Better To Be Uncertain And Not Promise, Than To Promise And Not Fulfill.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

Can Jesus Christ See The Agony Of His Soul In Us? He Can't Unless We Are So Closely Identified With Him That We Have His View Concerning The People For Whom We Pray. May We Learn To Intercede So Wholeheartedly That Jesus Christ Will Be Completely And Overwhelmingly Satisfied With Us As Intercessors.

Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion. But Strictly Speaking, There Is No Call To That. Service Is What I Bring To The Relationship And Is The Reflection Of My Identification With The Nature Of God.

If You Will Receive Yourself In The Fires Of Sorrow, God Will Make You Nourishment For Other People.

Satan Tried To Put Jesus Christ On The Way To Becoming King Of The World And Savior Of Men In A Way Other Than That Predetermined By God.

Live In A Constant State Of Expectancy, And Leave Room For God To Come In As He Decides.

If We Rely On The Holy Spirit, We Shall Find That Our Prayers Become More And More Inarticulate; And When They Are Inarticulate, Reverence Grows Deeper And Deeper.

Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than We Can Understand.

God Nowhere Tells Us To Give Up Things For The Sake Of Giving Them Up. He Tells Us To Give Them Up For The Sake Of The Only Thing Worth Having - Viz., Life With Himself. It Is A Question Of Loosening The Bonds That Hinder The Life.

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.

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...watch Where God Puts You Into Darkness, And When You Are There Keep Your Mouth Shut. Are You In The Dark Just Now In Your Circumstances, Or In Your Life With God? Then Remain Quiet...when You Are In The Dark, Listen, And God Will Give You A Very Precious Message For Someone Else When You Get Into The Light.

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.'

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.

By The Supernatural Miracle Of God's Grace I Stand Justified, Not Because I Am Sorry For My Sin, Not Because I Have Repented, But Because Of What Jesus Has Done.

Having The Reality Of God's Presence Is Not Dependent On Our Being In A Particular Circumstance Or Place, But Is Only Dependent On Our Determination To Keep The Lord Before Us Continually.

Are You Learning To Say Things After Listening To God, Or Are You Saying Things And Trying To Make God's Word Fit In?

The One Thing For Which We Are All Being Disciplined Is To Know That God Is Real. As Soon As God Becomes Real, Other People Become Shadows. Nothing That Other Saints Do Or Say Can Ever Perturb The One Who Is Built On God.

Never Look For Justice In This World, Never Cease To Give It.

It Is A Joy To Jesus When A Person Takes Time To Walk More Intimately With Him. The Bearing Of Fruit Is Always Shown In Scripture To Be A Visible Result Of An Intimate Relationship With Jesus Christ.

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Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not.

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

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.

Human Nature, If Healthy, Demands Excitement; And If It Does Not Obtain Its Thrilling Excitement In The Right Way, It Will Seek It In The Wrong. God Never Makes Bloodless Stoics; He Makes No Passionless Saints.

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.

The Nature Of The Spiritual Life Is That We Are Certain In Our Uncertainty.

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.

Remember That We Have To Ask Things Of God That Are In Keeping With The God Whom Jesus Christ Revealed.

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

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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.

We Are Built For The Valley, For The Ordinary Stuff We Are In, And That Is Where We Have To Prove Our Mettle.

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.

God Rarely Allows A Person To See How Great A Blessing He Is To Others.

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.

You Do Not Know What You Are Going To Do,the Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......it Is This Attitude That Keeps You In Perpetual Wonder-you Do Not Know What God Is Going To Do Next.

If We Believe In Jesus, It Is Not What We Gain But What He Pours Through Us That Really Counts. God’s Purpose Is Not Simply To Make Us Beautiful, Plump Grapes, But To Make Us Grapes So That He May Squeeze The Sweetness Out Of Us.

Do We So Appreciate The Marvelous Salvation Of Jesus Christ That We Are Our Utmost For His Highest?

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

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

Don't Waste Time Asking God To Keep You From Doing Things. Don't Do Them.

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

The Goal Of Faithfulness Is Not That We Will Do Work For God, But That He Will Be Free To Do His Work Through Us. God Calls Us To His Service And Places Tremendous Responsibilitie S On Us. He Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part. God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son.

A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint- A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

Intercession Means That We Deliberately Substitute God’s Interests In Others For Our Natural Sympathy With Them.

Sin Is Not Weakness, It Is A Disease; It Is Red-handed Rebellion Against God And The Magnitude Of That Rebellion Is Expressed By Calvary's Cross.

To Be Obsessed By God Is To Have An Effective Barricade Against All The Assaults Of The Enemy.

We Do Not Pray At All Until We Are At Our Wits' End.

One Of The Greatest Strains In Life Is The Strain Of Waiting For God.

The Great Thing About Faith In God Is That It Keeps A Man Undisturbed In The Midst Of Disturbance.

We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly And Surely The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us In Every Part, And Men Will Take Knowledge Of Us That We Have Been With Jesus.

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.

You Say, "but He Has Not Answered." He Has, He Is So Near To You That His Silence Is The Answer. His Silence Is Big With Terrific Meaning That You Cannot Understand Yet, But Presently You Will.

Forgiveness Is The Divine Miracle Of Grace. The Cost To God Was The Cross Of Christ.

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.

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

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

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

Faith, As The Bible Teaches It, Is Faith In God Coming Against Everything That Contradicts Him- A Faith That Says, “i Will Remain True To God’s Character Whatever He May Do.” The Highest And The Greatest Expression Of Faith In The Whole Bible Is- “though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust Him” (job 13:15).

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

Our Understanding Of God Is The Answer To Prayer; Getting Things From God Is God's Indulgence Of Us. When God Stops Giving Us Things, He Brings Us Into The Place Where We Can Begin To Understand Him.

Am I Getting Nobler, Better, More Helpful, More Humble, As I Get Older? Am I Exhibiting The Life That Men Take Knowledge Of As Having Been With Jesus, Or Am I Getting More Self-assertive, More Deliberately Determined To Have My Own Way? It Is A Great Thing To Tell Yourself The Truth.

We Actually Slander And Dishonor God By Our Very Eagerness To Serve Him Without Knowing 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.

Not Every Man Can Carry A Full Cup. Sudden Elevation Frequently Leads To Pride And A Fall. The Most Exacting Test Of All To Survive Is Prosperity.

Take Yourself By The Scruff Of The Neck And Shake Off Your Incarnate Laziness.

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

We Look Upon Prayer Simply As A Means Of Getting Things For Ourselves, But The Biblical Purpose Of Prayer Is That We May Get To Know God Himself.

Discipleship Is Based Solely On Devotion To Jesus Christ, Not On Following After A Particular Belief Or Doctrine.

The Call Of God Is Not A Reflection Of My Nature; My Personal Desires And Temperament Are Of No Consideration. As Long As I Dwell On My Own Qualities And Traits And Think About What I Am Suited For, I Will Never Hear The Call Of God.

It Is Inbred In Us That We Have To Do Exceptional Things For God: But We Have Not. We Have To Be Exceptional In The Ordinary Things, To Be Holy In Mean Streets, Among Mean People, And This Is Not Learned In Five Minutes

We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins.

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

Have You Ever Realized That You Can Give Things To God That Are Of Value To Him? Or Are You Just Sitting Around Daydreaming About The Greatness Of His Redemption, While Neglecting All The Things You Could Be Doing For Him? I'm Not Referring To Works Which Could Be Regarded As Divine And Miraculous, But Ordinary, Simple Human Things - Things Which Would Be Evidence To God That You Are Totally Surrendered To Him.

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.

We Are Apt To Think That Everything That Happens To Us Is To Be Turned Into Useful Teaching; It Is To Be Turned Into Something Better Than Teaching, Into Character. We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

We Pray Pious Blether, Our Will Is Not In It, And Then We Say God Does Not Answer; We Never Asked Him For Anything. Asking Means That Our Wills Are In What We Ask.

Do Not Have As Your Motive The Desire To Be Known As A Praying Man. Get An Inner Chamber In Which To Pray Where No One Knows You Are Praying, Shut The Door, And Talk To God In Secret.

When A Man’s Heart Is Right With God The Mysterious Utterances Of The Bible Are Spirit And Life To Him. Spiritual Truth Is Discernible Only To A Pure Heart, Not To A Keen Intellect. It Is Not A Question Of Profundity Of Intellect, But Of Purity Of Heart.

There Is Only One Being Who Can Satisfy The Last Aching Abyss Of The Human Heart, And That Is The Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

Never Say You Will Pray About A Thing; Pray About It.

There Is Nothing Attractive About The Gospel To The Natural Man; The Only Man Who Finds The Gospel Attractive Is The Man Who Is Convicted Of Sin.

Have I Allowed My Personal Human Life To Become A 'bethlehem' For The Son Of God?

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 Possible To Know All About Doctrine And Yet Not Know Jesus. The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus. ....have I A Personal History With Jesus Christ? The One Sign Of Discipleship Is Intimate Connection With Him, A Knowledge Of Jesus Christ Nothing Can Shake.

God's Will Is Hard Only When It Comes Up Against Our Stubbornness, Then It Is As Cruel As A Ploughshare And As Devastating As An Earthquake.

We Preach To Men As If They Were Conscious They Were Dying Sinners, They Are Not; They Are Having A Good Time.

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

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

Our Salvation Comes To Us So Easily Because It Cost God So Much.

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.

Once The Call Of God Comes To You, Start Going And Never Stop.

God Is The Great Engineer, Creating Circumstances To Bring About Moments In Our Lives Of Divine Importance, Leading Us To Divine Appointments

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

We Say, Sorrow, Disaster, Calamity. God Says, Chastening And It Sounds Sweet To Him Though It Is A Discord To Our Ears. Don't Faint When You Are Rebuked, And Don't Despise The Chastening Of The Lord. In Your Patience Possess Your Souls.

No Love Of The Natural Heart Is Safe Unless The Human Heart Has Been Satisfied By God First

Prayer Is Not Logical, It Is A Mysterious Moral Working Of The Holy Spirit.

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.

The Main Characteristic Which Is The Proof Of The Indwelling Spirit Is An Amazing Tenderness In Personal Dealing, And A Blazing Truthfulness With Regard To God's Word.

Yielding To Jesus Will Break Every Form Of Slavery In Any Human Life.

Christianity Is Not Consistency To Conscience Or To Convictions; Christianity Is Being True To Jesus Christ.

Prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished.

But The Miracle Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Offender Can Never Exhaust The Depths Of His Love.

When Once You Realize All That It Cost God To Forgive You, You Will Be Held As In A Vice, Constrained By The Love Of God.

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.

I Have To Learn That The Aim In Life Is God's, Not Mine.

God Does Not Expect Us To Imitate Jesus Christ; He Expects Us To Allow The Life Of Jesus To Be Manifested In Our Moral Flesh.

The Moral Miracle Of Redemption Is That God Can Put A New Nature Into Me Through Which I Can Live A Totally New Life.

God Will Turn The Might Have Been Into A Wonderful Culture For The Future.

Begin To Know Him Now, And Finish Never

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?

The Voice Of The Spirit Is As Gentle As A Zephyr, So Gentle That Unless You Are Living In Perfect Communion With God, You Never Hear It.

We Think We Understand Another Person's Struggle Until God Reveals The Same Shortcomings In Our Lives.

Love For The Lord Is Not An Ethereal, Intellectual, Dreamlike Thing; It Is The Intensest, Most Vital, Most Passionate Love Of Which The Human Heart Is Capable.

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.

The Passion Of Christianity Comes From Deliberately Signing Away My Own Rights And Becoming A Bondservant Of Jesus Christ. Until I Do That, I Will Not Begin To Be A Saint.

God Never Estimates What We Give From Impulse. We Are Given Credit For What We Determine In Our Hearts To Give; For The Giving That Is Governed By A Fixed Determination. The Spirit Of God Revolutionises Our Philanthropic Instincts. Much Of Our Philanthropy Is Simply The Impulse To Save Ourselves An Uncomfortable Feeling. The Spirit Of God Alters All That. As Saints Our Attitude Towards Giving Is That We Give For Jesus Christ's Sake, And From No Other Motive.

We Impoverish God In Our Minds When We Say There Must Be Answers To Our Prayers On The Material Plane; The Biggest Answers To Our Prayers Are In The Realm Of The Unseen.

Are You Debating Whether You Should Take A Step Of Faith In Jesus, Or Whether You Should Wait Until You Can Clearly See How To Do What He Has Asked? Simply Obey Him With Unrestrained Joy. When He Tells You Something And You Begin To Debate, It Is Because You Have A Misunderstanding Of What Honors Him And What Doesn't. Are You Faithful To Jesus, Or Faithful To Your Ideas About Him?

Let God Fling You Out (as Seed), And Do Not Go Until He Does. If You Select Your Own Spot, You Will Prove An Empty Pod. If God Sows You, You Will Bring Forth Fruit.

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.

We Look Upon The Enemy Of Our Souls As A Conquered Foe, So He Is, But Only To God, Not To Us.

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.

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.

The Disciple Is Rich Not In Possessions, But In Personal Identity.

I Have To Learn That The Aim In Life Is God's, Not Mine. God Is Using Me From His Great Personal Standpoint, And All He Asks Of Me Is That I Trust Him, And Never Say — Lord, This Gives Me Such Heart-ache.

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

Whenever God Touches Sin It Is Independence That Is Touched, An That Awakens Resentment In The Human Heart. Independence Must Be Blasted Clean Out, There Must Be No Such Thing Left, Only Freedom Which Is Very Different. Freedom Is The Ability Not To Insist On My Rights, But To See That God Gets His

In The Midst Of The Awesomeness, A Touch Comes, And You Know It Is The Right Hand Of Jesus Christ. You Know It Is Not The Hand Of Restraint, Correction, Nor Chastisement, But The Right Hand Of The Everlasting Father. Whenever His Hand Is Laid Upon You, It Gives Inexpressible Peace And Comfort, And The Sense That "underneath Are The Everlasting Arms," (deuteronomy 33:27) Full Of Support, Provision, Comfort And Strength.

If We Pray Only Because We Want Answers, We Will Become Irritated And Angry With God. We Receive An Answer Every Time We Pray, But It Does Not Always Come In The Way We Expect, And Our Spiritual Irritation Shows Our Refusal To Identify Ourselves Truly With Our Lord In Prayer. We Are Not Here To Prove That God Answers Prayer, But To Be Living Trophies Of God’s Grace.

Prayer Is The Exercise Of Drawing On The Grace Of God.

See That You Do Not Use The Trick Of Prayer To Cover Up What You Know You Ought To Do.

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

The Greatest Word Of Jesus To His Disciples Is Abandon

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.

Watch The Things You Say You Can't Believe, And Then Recall The Things You Accept Without Thinking, Like Your Own Existence.

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.

God Can Do Nothing For Me Until I Recognize The Limits Of What Is Humanly Possible, Allowing Him To Do The Impossible.

Certainty Is The Mark Of The Commonsense Life-gracious Uncertainty Is The Mark Of The Spiritual Life.

Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

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.

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.

Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry. We Are Always In Such A Frantic Hurry. In The Light Of The Glory Of The Vision We Go Forth To Do Things, But The Vision Is Not Real In Us Yet; And God Has To Take Us Into The Valley, And Put Us Through Fires And Floods To Batter Us Into Shape, Until We Get To The Place Where He Can Trust Us.... Let Him Put You On His Wheel And Whirl You As He Likes, And As Sure As God Is God And You Are You, You Will Turn Out Exactly In Accordance With The Vision. Don't Lose Heart In The Process.

As Soon As We Abandon Ourselves To God And Do The Task He Has Placed Closest To Us, He Begins To Fill Our Lives With Surprises.

Get Into The Habit Of Dealing With God About Everything. Unless In The First Waking Moment Of The Day You Learn To Fling The Door Wide Back And Let God In, You Will Work On A Wrong Level All Day; But Swing The Door Wide Open And Pray To Your Father In Secret, And Every Public Thing Will Be Stamped With The Presence Of God.

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

If Sympathy Is All That Human Beings Need, Then The Cross Of Christ Is An Absurdity And There Is Absolutely No Need For It. What The World Needs Is Not "a Little Bit Of Love," But Major Surgery. If You Think You Are Helping Lost People With Your Sympathy And Understanding, You Are A Traitor To Jesus Christ. You Must Have A Right-standing Relationship With Him Yourself, And Pour Your Life Out In Helping Others In His Way— Not In A Human Way That Ignores God.

God Did Not Direct His Call To Isaiah— Isaiah Overheard God Saying, ". . . Who Will Go For Us?" The Call Of God Is Not Just For A Select Few But For Everyone. Whether I Hear God’s Call Or Not Depends On The Condition Of My Ears, And Exactly What I Hear Depends Upon My Spiritual Attitude.

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.

For Understanding In Spiritual Matters, The Golden Rule Is Not Intellect But Obedience.

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

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

We Think Of Prayer As A Preparation For Work, Or A Calm After Having Done Work, Whereas Prayer Is The Essential Work.

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.

A River Reaches Places Its Source Never Knows.

Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

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

Drudgery Is One Of The Finest Touchstones Of Character There Is. Drudgery Is Work That Is Very Far Removed From Anything To Do With The Ideal - The Utterly Mean Grubby Things; And When We Come In Contact With Them We Know Instantly Whether Or Not We Are Spiritually Real.

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?

Today Jesus Christ Is Being Dispatched As The Figurehead Of A Religion, A Mere Example. He Is That, But He Is Infinitely More; He Is Salvation Itself, He Is The Gospel Of God.

The Most Important Aspect Of Christianity Is Not The Work We Do, But The Relationship We Maintain And The Surrounding Influence And Qualities Produced By That Relationship. That Is All God Asks Us To Give Our Attention To, And It Is The One Thing That Is Continually Under Attack.

Make Converts To Your Own Thoughts And Opinions.

The People Who Influence Us Are Those Who Have Stood Unconsciously For The Right Thing. They Are Like The Stars And The Lilies, And The Joy Of God Flows Through Them All The Time.

Wherever There Is Any Element Of Pride Or Of Conceit, Jesus Cannot Expound A Thing. He Will Take Us Through The Disappointment Of A Wounded Pride Of Intellect, Through Disappointment Of Heart. He Will Reveal Inordinate Affections-thin Gs Over Which We Never Thought He Would Have To Get Us Alone.

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.

God Regenerates Us And Puts Us In Contact With All His Divine Resources, But He Cannot Make Us Walk According To His Will.

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.

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