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One Of The Greatest Hindrances In Coming To Jesus Is The Excuse Of Temperament. We Make Our Temperament And Our Natural Affinities Barriers To Coming To Jesus. The First Thing We Realize When We Come To Jesus Is That He Pays No Attention Whatever To Our Natural Affinities. We Have The Notion That We Can Consecrate Our Gifts To God. You Cannot Consecrate What Is Not Yours; There Is Only One Thing You Can Consecrate To God, And That Is Your Right To Yourself (romans 12:1). If You Will Give God Your Right To Yourself, He Will Make A Holy Experiment Out Of You. God’s Experiments Always Succeed

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One Of The Greatest Hindrances In Coming To Jesus Is The Excuse Of Temperament. We Make Our Temperament And Our Natural Affinities Barriers To Coming To Jesus. The First Thing We Realize When We Come To Jesus Is That He Pays No Attention Whatever To Our Natural Affinities. We Have The Notion That We Can Consecrate Our Gifts To God. You Cannot Consecrate What Is Not Yours; There Is Only One Thing You Can Consecrate To God, And That Is Your Right To Yourself (romans 12:1). If You Will Give God Your Right To Yourself, He Will Make A Holy Experiment Out Of You. God’s Experiments Always Succeed

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Never Believe That The So-called Random Events Of Life Are Anything Less Than God’s Appointed Order. Be Ready To Discover His Divine Designs Anywhere And Everywhere.

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Falling In Love

When I Was Born Again, I Received The Very Life Of The Risen Lord From Jesus Himself.

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The Resentment Of Discipline Of Any Kind Will Warp The Whole Life Away From God's Purpose.

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

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

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.

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

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One Life Totally Devoted To God Is Of More Value To Him Than One Hundred Lives Which Have Been Simply Awakened By His Spirit.

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

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.

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

At The Back Of It There Lies The Central Citadel Of Obstinacy: I Will Not Give Up My Right To Myself--the Thing God Intends You To Give Up If Ever You Are Going To Be A Disciple Of Jesus Christ.

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.

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

Prayer Is Not Only Asking, It Is An Attitude Of Heart That Produces An Atmosphere In Which Asking Is Perfectly Natural, And Jesus Says, "every One That Asketh Receiveth."

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.

Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence (from God) Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than One Can Understand. It Will Be A Wonderful Moment For Some Of Us When We Stand Before God And Find That The Prayers We Clamored For In Early Days And Imagined Were Never Answered, Have Been Answered In The Most Amazing Way, And That God's Silence Has Been The Sign Of The Answer.

If You Are Going Through A Time Of Discouragement, There Is A Time Or Great Personal Growth Ahead.

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.

Nothing In Our Lives Is A Mere Insignificant Detail To God.

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.

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...."

Holiness Is The Balance Between My Nature And The Law Of God As Expressed In Jesus Christ.

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.

Is The Son Of God Praying In Me, Or Am I Dictating To Him?... Prayer Is Not Simply Getting Things From God, That Is A Most Initial Form Of Prayer; Prayer Is Getting Into Perfect Communion With God. If The Son Of God Is Formed In Us By Regeneration, He Will Press Forward In Front Of Our Common Sense And Change Our Attitude To The Things About Which We Pray.

Sanctification Means Being Made One With Jesus So That The Disposition That Ruled Him Will Rule Us. It Will Cost Everything That Is Not Of God In Us.

The Bible Does Not Thrill; The Bible Nourishes. Give Time To The Reading Of The Bible And The Recreating Effect Is As Real As That Of Fresh Air Physically.

Never Be Hurried Out Of The Relationship Of Abiding In Him.

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?

I Have Learnt That I Am Me, That I Can Do The Things That, As One Might Put It, Me Can Do, But I Cannot Do The Things That Me Would Like To Do.

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.

God Is My Father, He Loves Me, I Shall Never Think Of Anything He Will Forget. Why Should I Worry?

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

Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Always Look For Justice In This World, But There Is No Such Thing As Justice. Jesus Says — Never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Give It.

Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

Every Man Is Made To Reach Out Beyond His Grasp.

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