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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.

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God Did Not Direct

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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.

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

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

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

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.

Prayer Does Not Fit Us For The Greater Work; Prayer Is The Greater Work.

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.

Get Alone With Jesus And Either Tell Him That You Do Not Want Sin To Die Out In You - Or Else Tell Him That At All Costs You Want To Be Identified With His Death.

God Plants His Saints In The Most Useless Places. We Say, 'god Intends Me To Be Here Because I Am So Useful.' Jesus Never Estimated His Life Along The Line Of The Greatest Use. God Puts His Saints Where They Will Glorify Him, And We Are No Judge At All Of Where That Is.

Quit Praying About Yourself And Spend Your Life For The Sake Of Others As The Bondservant Of Jesus. That Is The True Meaning Of Being Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine In Real Life.

Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not.

When I See Jesus Christ I Simply Want To Be What He Wants Me To Be.

If We Are Going To Live As Disciples Of Jesus, We Have To Remember That All Noble Things Are Difficult.

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.

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

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

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

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.

Prayer Is The Supreme Activity Of All That Is Noblest In Our Personality, And The Essential Nature Of Prayer Is Faith.

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Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word.

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The God Who Guides The Stars, Unhasting And Unresting, Will As Assuredly Fulfill What He Has Promised.

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We Pray When There's Nothing Else We Can Do; Jesus Wants Us To Pray Before We Do Anything At All.

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.

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

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.

We Lean To Our Own Understanding, Or We Bank On Service And Do Away With Prayer, And Consequently By Succeeding In The External We Fail In The Eternal, Because In The Eternal We Succeed Only By Prevailing Prayer.

The Crisis Will Reveal Whether We Have Been Practicing Or Not.

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

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.

Be Exhausted For God, But Remember That Your Supply Comes From Him. 'all My Fresh Springs Shall Be In Thee.'

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

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.

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

Christian Inspirational

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.

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

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

Spiritual Lust--'i Must Have It At Once'--causes Me To Demand An Answer From God, Instead Of Seeking God Himself Who Gives The Answer. Is Today 'the Third Day' And He Has Still Not Done What I Expected? Whenever We Insist That God Should Give Us An Answer To Prayer We Are Off Track. The Purpose Of Prayer Is That We Get A Hold Of God, Not Of The Answer.

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.

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

The Cross Is The Central Event In Time And Eternity, And The Answer To All The Problems Of Both.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Perseverance Is More Than Endurance." It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen. Perseverance Means More Than Just Hanging On, Which May Only Be Exposing Our Fear Of Letting Go And Falling. Perseverance Is Our Supreme Effort Of Refusing To Believe That Our Hero Is Going To Be Conquered.

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

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

The Battle Of Prayer Is Against Two Things In The Earthlies: Wandering Thoughts And Lack Of Intimacy With God's Character As Revealed In His Word. Neither Can Be Cured At Once, But They Can Be Cured By Discipline.

What A Blessed Habit I Have Found My Prayer List, Morning By Morning, It Takes Me Via The Throne Of All Grace Straight To The Intimate Personal Heart Of Each One Mentioned Here, And I Know That He Who Is Not Prescribed By Time And Geography Answers Immediately.

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

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

We Imagine That Whatever Is Unpleasant Is Our Duty! Is That Anything Like The Spirit Of Our Lord, "i *delight* To Do Thy Will, O My God.

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

The Greatest Test Of A Man's Character Is His Tongue.

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.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

We Must Get To The Place Of Real Solitude With Christ. He Is Our Mountain-height And Our Sea-calm.

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.

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 Marvelous Thing About Spiritual Wealth Is That When We Take Our Part In That, Everyone Else Is Blessed; Whereas If We Refused To Be Partakers, We Hinder Others From Entering Into The Riches Of God.

Faith Is Deliberate Confidence In The Character Of God Whose Ways You Cannot Understand At The Time.

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.

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

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.

Narrow All Your Interests Until The Attitude Of Mind And Heart And Body Is Concentration On Jesus Christ.

Once We See Jesus, The Impossible Things He Does In Our Lives Become As Natural As Breathing.

Impossible Things

We Are Uncertain Of The Next Step, But We Are Certain Of God. Immediately We Abandon To God, And Do The Duty That Lies Nearest, And He Packs Our Life With Surprises All The Time.... Leave The Whole Thing To Him, It Is Gloriously Uncertain How He Will Come In, But He Will Come.

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.

When We Discern That People Are Not Going On Spiritually And Allow The Discernment To Turn To Criticism, We Block Our Way To God. God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede

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.

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

God Cannot Reveal Anything To Us If We Have Not His Spirit.

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

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.

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.

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.

Abandonment To God Is Of More Value Than Personal Holiness!

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

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.

What Hinders Me From Hearing Is That I Am Taken Up With Other Things. It Is Not That I Will Not Hear God, But I Am Not Devoted In The Right Place. I Am Devoted To Things, To Service, To Convictions, And God May Say What He Likes But I Do Not Hear Him.

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

God Has One Destined End For Mankind - Holiness! His One Aim Is The Production Of Saints. God Is Not An Eternal Blessing-machine For Men. He Did Not Come To Save Men Out Of Pity. He Came To Save Men Because He Had Created Them To Be Holy.

The Love Of God Is Not Created- It Is His Nature.

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.

Our Lord's Conception Of Discipleship Is Not That We Work For God, But That God Works Through Us.

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

The Saint Is Hilarious When He Is Crushed With Difficulties Because The Thing Is So Ludicrously Impossible To Anyone But God.

God Does Not Further Our Spiritual Life In Spite Of Our Circumstances, But In And By Our Circumstances.

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