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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.

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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.

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

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

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To Be 'in The Will Of God' Is Not A Matter Of Intellectual Discernment, But A State Of Heart.

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

God Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everyday Things

Whenever God's Will Is In The Ascendant All Compulsion Is Gone. When We Choose Deliberately To Obey Him Then With All His Almighty Power.

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

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.

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

God's Silences Are His Answers. If We Only Take As Answers Those That Are Visible To Our Senses, We Are In A Very Elementary Condition Of Grace.

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

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.

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

God Works This Unspeakable Mystery Of Entire Sanctification In Your Life And Mine. People Try To Seek The Experience Of Entire Sanctification In Ways Other Than God's Way; But The Wonderful Spirit Of God Will Remove Confusion And Enable Us To See That The Only Means To Obtain The Experience Of Entire Sanctification By Faith Is The Grace Of God.

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.

As We Go Forth Into The Coming Year, Let It Not Be In The Haste Of Impetuous, Forgetful Delight, Nor With The Quickness Of Impulsive Thoughtlessness . But Let Us Go Out With The Patient Power Of Knowing That The God Of Israel Will Go Before Us.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Some Of The Qualities Of #‎ God Must Be Merged Into Us Before Our #‎ Prayers Can Be Fit For His Acceptance.

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

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

When It Is A Question Of God's Almighty Spirit, Never Say, 'i Can't.'

But God Is The God Of Our Yesterdays, And He Allows The Memory Of Them To Turn The Past Into A Ministry Of Spiritual Growth For Our Future. God Reminds Us Of The Past To Protect Us From A Very Shallow Security In The Present.

Beware Of Bartering The Word Of God For A More Suitable Conception Of Your Own.

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

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.

Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God. The Energy And The Power Which Was So Very Evident In Jesus Will Be Exhibited In Us By An Act Of The Absolute Sovereign Grace Of God, Once We Have Made That Complete And Effective Decision About Sin. We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly, But Surely, The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us, Penetrating Every Part.

God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede.

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.

Have You Been Asking God What He 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.

The One Thing That Remains Is Looking In The Face Of God For Ourselves.

The Key To The Missionary's Work Is The Authority Of Jesus Christ, Not The Needs Of The Lost. We Are Inclined To Look On Our Lord As One Who Assists Us In Our Endeavors For God. Yet Our Lord Places Himself As The Absolute Sovereign And Supreme Lord Over His Disciples. He Does Not Say That The Lost Will Never Be Saved If We Don't Go- He Simply Says, "go Therefore And Make Disciples Of All The Nations...."

We Tend To Use Prayer As A Last Resort, But God Wants It To Be Our First Line Of Defense. We Pray When There's Nothing Else We Can Do, But God Wants Us To Pray Before We Do Anything At All. Most Of Us Would Prefer, However, To Spend Our Time Doing Something That Will Get Immediate Results. We Don't Want To Wait For God To Resolve Matters In His Good Time Because His Idea Of 'good Time' Is Seldom In Sync With Ours.

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.

There Are Certain Things We Must Not Pray About - Moods, For Instance. Moods Never Go By Praying, Moods Go By Kicking.

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

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

If We Are In Christ The Whole Basis Of Our Goings Is God, Not Conceptions Of God, Not Ideas Of God, But God Himself. We Do Not Need Any More Ideas About God, The World Is Full Of Ideas About God, They Are All Worthless, Because The Ideas Of God In Anyone’s Head Are Of No More Use Than Our Own Ideas. What We Need Is A Real God, Not More Ideas About Him.

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

For One Man Who Can Introduce Another To Jesus Christ By The Way He Lives And By The Atmosphere Of His Life, There Are A Thousand Who Can Only Talk Jargon About Him

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

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.

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

It Is Impossible To Get Exhausted In Work For God. We Get Exhausted Because We Try To Do God's Work In Our Own Way.

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.

It Is Not The Thing On Which We Spend The Most Time That Moulds Us, But The Thing That Exerts The Greatest Power. Five Minutes With God And His Word Is Worth More Than All The Rest Of The Day.

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.

If I Am Going To Know Who Jesus Is, I Must Obey Him. The Majority Of Us Don't Know Jesus Because We Have Not The Remotest Intention Of Obeying Him.

Jesus Christ Has Undertaken By His Redemption To Put In Me A Heart So Pure That God Can See Nothing To Censure.

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

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God; We Mistake Panic For Inspiration.

Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word.

Many People Have Turned Back Because They Are Afraid To Look At Things From God's Perspective. The Greatest Spiritual Crisis Comes When A Person Has To Move A Little Farther On In His Faith Than The Beliefs He Has Already Accepted.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not.

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

It Is Better To Enter Into Life Maimed But Lovely In God’s Sight Than To Appear Lovely To Man’s Eyes But Lame To God’s.

Never Allow Anything That Divides Or Destroys The Oneness Of Your Life With Christ To Remain In Your Life Without Facing It.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Make The Determination To Abide In Jesus Wherever You Are Now Or Wherever You May Be Placed In The Future.

All Our Fret And Worry Is Caused By Calculating Without God.

Let The Consequences Of Your Obedience Be Left Up To God.

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 Its Source Never Knows.

By Realizing The Reality Of Our Prince Within Us, We Are Never Bothered Again By The Fact That We Do Not Understand Ourselves, Or That Other People Do Not Understand Us. The Only One Who Truly Understands Me Is The One Who Made Me And Who Redeems Me... It Is A Tremendous Freedom To Get Rid Of Every Kind Of Self-consideration And Learn To Care About Only One Thing - The Relationship Between Our Prince And Ourselves.

We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins. The Only Reason For The Forgiveness Of Our Sins By God, And The Infinite Depth Of His Promise To Forget Them, Is The Death Of Jesus Christ...no Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ...to Identify With The Death Of Jesus Christ Means That We Must Die To Everything That Was Never A Part Of Him.

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.

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

Sometimes There Is Nothing To Obey, The Only Thing To Do Is To Maintain A Vital Connection With Jesus Christ, To See That Nothing Interferes With That.

In The Will Of God" Is Not A Matter Of Intellectual Discernment, But A State Of Heart... It's Motto Is --" My Father Can Do What He Likes With Me, He May Bless Me To Death, Or Give Me A Bitter Cup; I Delight To Do His Will.

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 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.

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.

A Man Ceases To Be An Honest Doubter The Moment He Refuses One Way Of Getting At The Truth Because He Does Not Like That Way.

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.

Do We Not See God At Work In Our Circumstances? Dark Times Are Allowed And Come To Us Through The Sovreignty Of God. Are We Prepared To Let God Do What He Wants With Us? Are We Prepared To Be Separated From The Outward, Evident Blessings Of God? Until Jesus Christ Is Truly Our Lord, We Each Have Goals Of Our Own Which We Serve. Our Faith Is Real, But It Is Not Yet Permanent. And God Is Never In A Hurry. If We Are Willing To Wait, We Will See God Pointing Out That We Have Been Interested Only In His Blessings, Instead Of God Himself.

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.

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