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Prayer Is Often A Temptation To Bank On A Miracle Of God Instead Of On A Moral Issue, I.e., It Is Much Easier To Ask God To Do My Work Than It Is To Do It Myself. Until We Are Disciplined Properly, We Will Always Be Inclined To Bank On God's Miracles And Refuse To Do The Moral Thing Ourselves. It Is Our Job, And It Will Never Be Done Unless We Do It.

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Prayer Is Often A Temptation To Bank On A Miracle Of God Instead Of On A Moral Issue, I.e., It Is Much Easier To Ask God To Do My Work Than It Is To Do It Myself. Until We Are Disciplined Properly, We Will Always Be Inclined To Bank On God's Miracles And Refuse To Do The Moral Thing Ourselves. It Is Our Job, And It Will Never Be Done Unless We Do It.

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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.

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.

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We Look For Visions Of Heaven And We Never Dream That All The Time God Is In The Commonplace Things And People Around Us.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Your God May Be Your Little Christian Habit - The Habit Of Prayer Or Bible Reading At Certain Times Of Your Day. Watch How Your Father Will Upset Your Schedule If You Begin To Worship Your Habit Instead Of What The Habit Symbolizes. We Say, 'i Can't Do That Right Now; This Is My Time Alone With God.' No, This Is Your Time Alone With Your Habit.

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.

God Does Not Make Us Holy In The Sense Of Character; He Makes Us Holy In The Sense Of Innocence, And We Have To Turn That Innocence Into Holy Character By A Series Of Moral Choices.

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.

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

You Can Never Argue Anyone Into The Kingdom Of Heaven, You Cannot Argue Anyone Anywhere. The Only Result Of Arguing Is To Prove To Your Own Mind That You Are Right And The Other Fellow Wrong. You Cannot Argue For Truth; But Immediately Incarnate Truth Is Presented, A Want Awakens In The Soul Which Only God Can Meet.

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

It Is A Tremendous Freedom To Get Rid Of All Self-considerat Ion And Learn To Care About Only One Thing-the Relationship Between Christ And Ourselves.

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

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.

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.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life. And This Is How That Suffering Happens-if We Love Someone, But Do Not Love God, We Demand Total Perfection And Righteousness From That Person, And When We Do Not Get It, We Become Cruel And Vindictive; Yet We Are Demanding Of A Human Being Which He Or She Cannot Possibly Give.

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.

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

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

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.

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

No Healthy Christian Ever Chooses Suffering; He Chooses God's Will, As Jesus Did, Whether It Means Suffering Or Not.

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

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 River Reaches Places Its Source Never Knows.

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.

There Are Many Things That Are Perfectly Legitimate, But If You Are Going To Concentrate On God You Cannot Do Them.

If Ever We Are Going To Be Made Into Wine, We Will Have To Be Crushed; You Cannot Drink Grapes. Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed. I Wonder What Kind Of Finger And Thumb God Has Been Using To Squeeze You, And You Have Been Like A Marble And Escaped?

There Have Been Prophets And Students Who Handle The Bible Like A Child's Box Of Bricks; They Explain To Us The Design And Structure And Purpose; But As Time Goes On Things Do Not Work Out In Their Way At All. They Have Mistaken The Scaffolding For The Structure, While All The Time God Is Working Out His Purpose With A Great And Undeterred Patience.

Our True Character Comes Out In The Way We Pray.

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.

No Enthusiasm Will Ever Stand The Strain That Jesus Christ Will Put Upon His Worker, Only One Thing Will, And That Is A Personal Relationship To Himself Which Has Gone Through The Mill Of His Spring-cleaning Until There Is Only One Purpose Left--i Am Here For God To Send Me Where He Will.

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