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Spend Plenty Of Time With God; Let Other Things Go, But Don't Neglect Him. We Are Not Here To Do Work For God, We Are Here To Be Workers With Him, Those Through Whom He Can Do His Work.

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Spend Plenty Of Time With God; Let Other Things Go, But Don't Neglect Him. We Are Not Here To Do Work For God, We Are Here To Be Workers With Him, Those Through Whom He Can Do His Work.

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Everyday Things

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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.

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Utmost For His Highest

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Preaching The Gospel

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There Is Actually Only One Thing You Can Dedicate To God, And That Is Your Right To Yourself. If You Will Give God Your Right To Yourself, He Will Make A Holy Experiment Out Of You - And His Experiments Always Succeed.

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.

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.

God Will Turn The Might Have Been Into A Wonderful Culture For The Future.

Joy Comes From Seeing The Complete Fulfillment Of The Specific Purpose For Which I Was Created And Born Again, Not From Successfully Doing Something Of My Own Choosing.

The Aim Of The Missionary Is To Do God's Will, Not To Be Useful, Not To Win The Heathan; He Is Useful And Does Win The Heathen, But That Is Not His Aim. His Aim Is To Do The Will Of His Lord.

Live In A Constant State Of Expectancy, And Leave Room For God To Come In As He Decides.

Prayer Is Not An Exercise, It Is The Life.

The Test Of The Life Of A Saint Is Not Success, But Faithfulness In Human Life As It Actually Is.

It Is Impossible To Conduct Your Life As A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer

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.

When We Pray "in The Name Of Jesus" The Answers Are In Accordance With His Nature, And If We Think Our Prayers Are Unanswered It Is Because We Are Not Interpreting The Answer Along This Line.

I Am Called To Live In Such A Perfect Relationship With God That My Life Produces A Yearning For God In The Lives Of Others, Not Admiration For Myself. Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God. God’s Purpose Is Not To Perfect Me To Make Me A Trophy In His Showcase; He Is Getting Me To The Place Where He Can Use Me. Let Him Do What He Wants.

When A Man Gets To Despair He Knows That All His Thinking Will Never Get Him Out. He Will Only Get Out By The Sheer Creative Effort Of God. Consequently He Is In The Right Attitude To Receive From God That Which He Cannot Gain For Himself.

Never Water Down Or Minimise The Mighty Gospel Of God By Considering That People May Be Misled By Certain Statements. Present The Gospel In All Its Fullness And God Will Guard His Own Truth.

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

When You Meet A Man Or Woman Who Puts Jesus Christ First, Knit That One To Your Soul.

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.

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

If We Were Never Depressed We Should Not Be Alive; It Is The Nature Of A Crystal Never To Be Depressed.

The Expression Of Christian Character Is Not Good Doing, But God-likeness. If The Spirit Of God Has Transformed You Within, You Will Exhibit Divine Characteristics In Your Life, Not Good Human Characteristics . God's Life In Us Expresses Itself As God's Life, Not As Human Life Trying To Be Godly.

Our Lord’s Making Of A Disciple Is Supernatural. He Does Not Build On Any Natural Capacity Of Ours At All. God Does Not Ask Us To Do The Things That Are Naturally Easy For Us- He Only Asks Us To Do The Things That We Are Perfectly Fit To Do Through His Grace, And That Is Where The Cross We Must Bear Will Always Come.

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.

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