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Earnestness Is Not By Any Means Everything; It Is Very Often A Subtle Form Of Pious Pride Because It Is Obsessed With The Method And Not With The Master.

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Earnestness Is Not By Any Means Everything; It Is Very Often A Subtle Form Of Pious Pride Because It Is Obsessed With The Method And Not With The Master.

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

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The Spirit Is The First Power We Practically Experience, But The Last Power We Come To Understand.

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If Our Hopes Are Being Disappointed Just Now, It Means They Are Being Purified.

Being Disappointed

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Complete Weakness And Dependence Will Always Be The Occasion For The Spirit Of God To Manifest His Power.

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Divine Guidance

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If We Obey God It Is Going To Cost Other People More Than It Costs Us, And That Is Where The Sting Comes In. If We Are In Love With Our Lord, Obedience Does Not Cost Us Anything, It Is A Delight, But It Costs Those Who Do Not Love Him A Good Deal.

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We Think Rightly Or Wrongly About Prayer According To The Conception We Have In Our Minds Of Prayer. If We Think Of Prayer As The Breath In Our Lungs And The Blood From Our Hearts, We Think Rightly. The Blood Flows Ceaselessly, And Breathing Continues Ceaselessly; We Are Not Conscious Of It, But It Is Always Going On. We Are Not Always Conscious Of Jesus Keeping Us In Perfect Joint With God, But If We Are Obeying Him, He Always Is.

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If Jesus Is A Teacher Only, Then All He Can Do Is To Tantalize Us By Erecting A Standard We Cannot Come Anywhere Near. But If By Being Born Again From Above We Know Him First As Savior, We Know That He Did Not Come To Teach Us Only. He Came To Make Us What He Teaches We Should Be. The Sermon On The Mount Is A Statement Of The Life We Will Live When The Holy Spirit Is Having His Way With Us.

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If You Are Going On With God, The Only Thing That Is Clear To You, And The Only Thing God Intends To Be Clear, Is The Way He Deals With Your Own Soul.

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

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.

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

Beware Of Being Obsessed With Consistency To Your Own Convictions Instead Of Being Devoted To God. The Important Consistency In A Saint Is Not To A Principle But To The Divine Life. It Is Easier To Be An Excessive Fanatic Than It Is To Be Consistently Faithful, Because God Causes An Amazing Humbling Of Our Religious Conceit When We Are Faithful To Him.

There Is A Call To Spiritual Perseverance. A Call Not To Hang On And Do Nothing, But To Work Deliberately, Knowing With Certainty That God Will Never Be Defeated.

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

There Is No Need To Get To A Place Of Prayer; Pray Wherever You Are.

If You Have Had No Tension In Your Life, Never Been Screwed Up By Problems, Your Mortality Well Within Your Own Grasp, And Someone Tells You That God So Loved You That He Gave His Son To Die For You, Nothing But Good Manners Will Keep You From Being Amused.

Worship And Intercession Must Go Together, The One Is Impossible Without The Other. Intercession Means That We Rouse Ourselves Up To Get The Mind Of Christ About The One For Whom We Pray.

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.

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 Test Of A Man’s Religious Life And Character Is Not What He Does In The Exceptional Moments Of Life, But What He Does In The Ordinary Times, When There Is Nothing Tremendous Or Exciting On. The Worth Of A Man Is Revealed In His Attitude To Ordinary Things When He Is Not Before The Footlights.

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

God Always Ignores The Present Perfection For The Ultimate Perfection.

The Peace That Jesus Gives Is Never Engineered By Circumstances On The Outside.

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.

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.

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.

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

Self Pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It, I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

The Historic Idea That The Devil Tempts Men Had This Remarkable Effect, It Produced The Man Of Iron Who Fought; The Modern Idea Of Blaming His Heredity Or His Circumstances Produces The Man Who Gives In At Once.

Is He Going To Help Himself To Your Life, Or Are You Taken Up With Your Conception Of What You Are Going To Do? God Is Responsible For Our Lives, And The One Great Keynote Is Reckless Reliance Upon Him.

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

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

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

We Are Not Responsible For The Circumstances We Are In, But We Are Responsible For The Way We Allow Those Circumstances To Affect Us; We Can Either Allow Them To Get On Top Of Us Or We Can Allow Them To Transform Us Into What God Wants Us To Be.

Personal Responsibility

The Measure Of The Worth Of Our Public Activity For God Is The Private Profound Communion We Have With Him.

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

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.

Intimate Relationships

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Beware Of Any Belief That Makes You Self-indulgent; It Came From The Pit, No Matter How Beautiful It Sounds.

The Inattentive, Slovenly Way We Drift Into The Presence Of God Is An Indication That We Are Not Bothering To Think About Him. Whenever Our Lord Spoke Of Prayer, He Said, "ask." It Is Impossible To Ask If You Do Not Concentrate.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If There Were Never Any Clouds (sorrows And Sufferings) In Our Lives, We Would Have No Faith. God Does Not Come Near Us Without Clouds.

Get To The End Of Yourself Where You Can Do Nothing, But Where He Does Everything.

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?

Continually Revise Your Relationship To God Until The Only Certainty You Have Is Not That You Are Faithful, But That He Is.

Our Relationship

The Central Point Of The Kingdom Of Jesus Christ Is A Personal Relationship With Him, Not Public Usefulness To Others.

Prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished.

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

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.

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.

There Is Nothing To Be Valued More Highly Than To Have People Praying For Us; God Links Up His Power In Answer To Their Prayers.

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

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.

Abandonment To God Is Of More Value Than Personal Holiness!

The Path Of Peace For Us Is To Hand Ourselves Over To God And Ask Him To Search Us, Not What We Think We Are, Or What Other People Think We Are, Or What We Persuade Ourselves We Are Or Would Like To Be, But 'search Me Out, O God, Explore Me As I Really Am In Thy Sight.'

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.

We Must Keep Ourselves In Touch, Not With Theories, But With People. We Must Never Get Out Of Touch With Them If We Are Going To Use The Word Of God Skillfully Amongst Them And If The Holy Spirit Is To Apply The Word Of God Through Us.

There Is No Condition Of Life In Which We Cannot Abide In Jesus. We Have To Learn To Abide In Him Wherever We Are Placed.

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

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

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

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

All Of God’s People Are Ordinary People Who Have Been Made Extraordinary By The Purpose He Has Given Them.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life.

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

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

The Greatest Test Of Christianity Is The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life; It Is Like The Shining Of Silver: The More It Is Rubbed The Brighter It Grows.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Temptation Is A Suggested Short Cut To The Realization Of The Highest At Which I Aim - Not Towards What I Understand As Evil, But Towards What I Understand As Good.

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.

The Way To Grow Strong In Christ Is To Become Weak In Yourself.

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.

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.

God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience. Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry.

Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

Get Into The Habit Of Saying, ''speak, Lord,'' And Life Will Become A Romance.

God's End Is To Enable Me To See That He Can Walk On The Chaos Of My Life Just Now.

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

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

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.

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

The Moment We Recognize Our Complete Weakness And Our Dependence Upon Him Will Be The Very Moment That The Spirit Of God Will Exhibit His Power.

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

The Agony Of A Man's Affliction Is Often Necessary To Put Him Into The Right Mood To Face The Fundamental Things Of Life. The Psalmist Says: "before I Was Afflicted I Went Astray, But Now Have I Kept Thy Word.

Our Lord Never Lays Down The Conditions Of Discipleship As The Conditions Of Salvation.

Patience Is More Than Endurance. A Saint's Life Is In The Hands Of God Like A Bow And Arrow In The Hands Of An Archer. God Is Aiming At Something The Saint Cannot See, And He Stretches And Strains, And Every Now And Again The Saint Says--'i Cannot Stand Anymore.' God Does Not Heed, He Goes On Stretching Till His Purpose Is In Sight, Then He Lets Fly. Trust Yourself In God's Hands. Maintain Your Relationship To Jesus Christ By The Patience Of Faith. 'though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust In Him.

Do Not Expect God Always To Give You His Thrilling Minutes, But Learn To Live In The Domain Of Drudgery By The Power Of God.

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

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.

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.

The Reason We See Hypocrisy And Fraud And Unreality In Others Is Because They Are All In Our Own Hearts. The Great Characteristic Of A Saint Is Humility-yes, All Those Things And Other Evils Would Have Been Manifested In Me But For The Grace Of God, Therefore I Have No Right To Judge.

You Will Never Cease To Be The Most Amazed Person On Earth At What God Has Done For You On The Inside.

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

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.

When We See Him, We Will Wonder That We Ever Could Have Disobeyed Him.

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.

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.

The Center Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Jesus, And The Reason It Is So Easy To Obtain Salvation Is Because It Cost God So Much.

A Ready Person Never Needs To Get Ready.

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

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

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