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The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.

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The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.

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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.

We Have The Idea That God Is Going To Do Some Exceptional Thing- That He Is Preparing And Equipping Us For Some Extraordinary Work In The Future. But As We Grow In His Grace We Find That God Is Glorifying Himself Here And Now, At This Very Moment. If We Have God’s Assurance Behind Us, The Most Amazing Strength Becomes Ours, And We Learn To Sing, Glorifying Him Even In The Ordinary Days And Ways Of Life.

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.

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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.

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If Sin Rules In Me, God's Life In Me Will Be Killed; If God Rules In Me, Sin In Me Will Be Killed.

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Divine Guidance

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.

If We Are Obsessed By God, Nothing Else Can Get Into Our Lives - Not Concerns, Nor Tribulation, Not Worries.

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Remember That We Have To Ask Things Of God That Are In Keeping With The God Whom Jesus Christ Revealed.

Prayer Is The Evidence That I Am Spiritually Concentrated On God.

God Is Not Saving The World; It Is Done. Our Business Is To Get Men And Women To Realize It.

Worship And Intercession Must Go Together, The One Is Impossible Without The Other. Intercession Means That We Rouse Ourselves Up To Get The Mind Of Christ About The One For Whom We Pray.

In Christian Work Our Initiative And Motivation Are Too Often Simply The Result Of Realizing That There Is Work To Be Done And That We Must Do It. Yet That Is Never The Attitude Of A Spiritually Vigorous Saint. His Aim Is To Achieve The Realization Of Jesus Christ In Every Set Of Circumstances.

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.

Many Of Us Suffer From Temptations From Which We Have No Business To Suffer.

To Be A Holy Person Means That The Elements Of Our Natural Life Experience The Very Presence Of God As They Are Providentially Broken In His Service. We Have To Be Placed Into God And Brought Into Agreement With Him Before We Can Be Broken Bread In His Hands. Stay Right With God And Let Him Do As He Likes, And You Will Find That He Is Producing The Kind Of Bread And Wine That Will Benefit His Other Children.

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

We Actually Slander And Dishonor God By Our Very Eagerness To Serve Him Without Knowing Him.

For Understanding In Spiritual Matters, The Golden Rule Is Not Intellect But Obedience.

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.

When God Gives A Vision, Transact Business On That Line, No Matter What It Costs.

He Must Deny His Right To Himself, And He Must Realize Who Jesus Christ Is Before He Will Bring Himself To Do It. Beware Of Refusing To Go To The Funeral Of Your Own Independence

The Heart Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Christ. The Reason Salvation Is So Easy To Obtain Is That It Cost God So Much. The Cross Was The Place Where God And Sinful Man Merged With A Tremendous Collision And Where The Way To Life Was Opened. But All The Cost And Pain Of The Collision Was Absorbed By The Heart Of God.

We Are In Danger Of Being Stern Where God Is Tender, And Of Being Tender Where God Is Stern.

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.

Obedience To The Call Of Christ Nearly Always Costs Everything To Two People- The One Who Is Called, And The One Who Loves That One.

If A Man Cannot Prove His Religion In The Valley, It Is Not Worth Anything.

Dreaming About A Thing In Order To Do It Properly Is Right; But Dreaming About It When We Should Be Doing It Is Wrong.

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.

The Men With God's 'go' In Them Have These Three Characteristics-a Saving Experience, The Evidence Of Supernatural Power At Work, And The Spiritual Efficacy Of Success In Prayer.

One Of The Greatest Strains In Life Is The Strain Of Waiting For God.

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

Impossible Things

Your Priorities Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third, Until Your Life Is Continually Face To Face With God.

Faith Must Be Tested, Because It Can Be Turned Into A Personal Possession Only Through Conflict.

The Secret Of The Missionary Is...i Am His, And He Is Carrying Out His Work Through Me.

Prayer Is The Exercise Of Drawing On The Grace Of God.

Jesus Christ Out-socialists The Socialists. He Says That In His Kingdom He That Is Greatest Shall Be The Servant Of All. The Real Test Of The Saint Is Not Preaching The Gospel, But Washing Disciples' Feet, That Is, Doing The Things That Do Not Count In The Actual Estimate Of Men But Count Everything In The Estimate Of God.

Intercessory Prayer For One Who Is Sinning Prevails. God Says So! The Will Of The Man Prayed For Does Not Come Into Question At All, He Is Connected With God By Prayer, And Prayer On The Basis Of The Redemption Sets The Connection Working And God Gives Life.

If You Are Going To Be Used By God, He Will Take You Through A Number Of Experiences That Are Not Meant For You Personally At All. They Are Designed To Make You Useful In His Hands, And To Enable You To Understand What Takes Place In The Lives Of Others.

God Has Frequently To Knock The Bottom Board Out Of Your Experience If You Are A Saint In Order To Get You Into Contact With Himself. God Wants You To Understand This Is A Life Of Faith, Not A Life Of Sentimental Enjoyment Of His Blessings. ... "though He Slay Me Yet Will I Trust Him" - This Is The Most Sublime Utterance Of Faith In The Whole Of The Bible.

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.

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

Has It Ever Dawned On You That You Are Responsible Spiritually To God For Other People?

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.

God's Will Is Hard Only When It Comes Up Against Our Stubbornness, Then It Is As Cruel As A Ploughshare And As Devastating As An Earthquake.

We Have To Take The First Step As Though There Were No God. It Is No Use To Wait For God To Help Us, He Will Not: But Immediately We Arise We Find He Is There.

The Christian Who Is Truly Intimate With Jesus Will Never Draw Attention To Himself But Will Only Show The Evidence Of A Life Where Jesus Is Completely In Control. This Is The Outcome Of Allowing Jesus To Satisfy Every Area Of Life To Its Depth. The Picture Resulting From Such A Life Is That Of The Strong, Calm Balance That Our Lord Gives To Those Who Are Intimate With Him.

Certainty Is The Mark Of The Commonsense Life-gracious Uncertainty Is The Mark Of The Spiritual Life.

We Are Not Built For The Mountains And The Dawns And Aesthetic Affinities, Those Are For Moments Of Inspiration, That Is All. We Are Built For The Valley, For The Ordinary Stuff We Are In, And That Is Where We Have To Prove Our Mettle. Spiritual Selfishness Always Wants Repeated Moments On The Mount. We Feel We Could Talk Like Angels And Live Like Angels, If Only We Could Stay On The Mount. The Times Of Exaltation Are Exceptional, They Have Their Meaning In Our Life With God, But We Must Beware Lest Our Spiritual Selfishness Wants To Make Them The Only Time.

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

The Bible Is Not A Book That You Can Open And Say, 'now, Lord, Put Some Magic Into My Soul That Will Open Up The Meaning Of This Book.' There Is Only One Way Really To Understand The Word, And That Is Through Wrestling With The Circumstances And Happenings Of Life.

The People Who Influence Us Are Those Who Have Stood Unconsciously For The Right Thing. They Are Like The Stars And The Lilies, And The Joy Of God Flows Through Them All The Time.

Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not.

If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Flow Through Me To The Lives Of Others, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

God Nowhere Tells Us To Give Up Things For The Sake Of Giving Them Up. He Tells Us To Give Them Up For The Sake Of The Only Thing Worth Having - Viz., Life With Himself. It Is A Question Of Loosening The Bonds That Hinder The Life.

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

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.

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.

God Does Not Exist To Answer Our Prayers, But By Our Prayers We Come To Discern The Mind Of God.

It's One Thing To Go Through A Crisis Grandly, Yet Quite Another To Go Through Every Day Glorifying God When There Is No Witness, No Limelight, And No One Paying Even The Remotest Attention To Us.

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. Faith Means, Whether I Am Visibly Delivered Or Not, I Will Stick To My Belief That God Is Love.

The Moment We Recognize Our Complete Weakness And Our Dependence Upon Him Will Be The Very Moment That The Spirit Of God Will Exhibit His Power.

Our Lord’s Teaching Is Always Anti-self-realization. His Purpose Is Not The Development Of A Man; His Purpose Is To Make A Man Exactly Like Himself, And The Characteristic Of The Son Of God Is Self-expenditure.

I Must Learn That The Purpose Of My Life Belongs To God, Not Me. God Is Using Me From His Great Personal Perspective, And All He Asks Of Me Is That I Trust Him. ... When I Stop Telling God What I Want, He Can Freely Work His Will In Me Without Any Hindrance. ... Self-pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

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 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.

Character In A Saint Means The Disposition Of Jesus Christ Persistently Manifested.

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

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