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The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

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The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

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Never Say You Will Pray About A Thing; Pray About It.

Prayer Is Not A Preparation For Work, It Is Work. Prayer Is Not A Preparation For The Battle, It Is The Battle. Prayer Is Two-fold: Definite Asking And Definite Waiting To Receive.

God Answers Prayer On The Ground Of Redemption And On No Other Ground.

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

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

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

Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion.

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.

It Is Inbred In Us That We Have To Do Exceptional Things For God: But We Have Not. We Have To Be Exceptional In The Ordinary Things, To Be Holy In Mean Streets, Among Mean People, And This Is Not Learned In Five Minutes

Every Man Is Made To Reach Out Beyond His Grasp.

We Are Not Responsible For The Circumstances We Are In, But We Are Responsible For The Way We Allow Those Circumstances To Affect Us; We Can Either Allow Them To Get On Top Of Us Or We Can Allow Them To Transform Us Into What God Wants Us To Be.

Personal Responsibility

Trust Completely In God, And When He Brings You To A New Opportunity Of Adventure, Offering It To You, See That You Take It.

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

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

The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus.

Our Spiritual Life Cannot Be Measured By Success As The World Measures It, But Only By What God Pours Through Us- And We Cannot Measure That At All

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

Our Circumstances Are The Means God Uses To Exhibit Just How Wonderfully Perfect And Extraordinarily Pure His Son Is.

The Spirit Of God Has The Habit Of Taking The Words Of Jesus Out Of Their Scriptural Setting And Putting Them Into The Setting Of Our Personal Lives.

If There Were Never Any Clouds (sorrows And Sufferings) In Our Lives, We Would Have No Faith. God Does Not Come Near Us Without Clouds.

Jesus Christ Became Incarnate For One Purpose, To Make A Way Back To God That Man Might Stand Before Him As He Was Created To Do, The Friend And Lover Of God Himself.

Intercession Means That We Deliberately Substitute God’s Interests In Others For Our Natural Sympathy With Them.

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

God Seems To Have A Delightful Way Of Upsetting The Things We Have Calculated On Without Taking Him Into Account. We Get Into Circumstances Which Were Not Chosen By God, And Suddenly We Find We Have Been Calculating Without God; He Has Not Entered In As A Living Factor. The One Thing That Keeps Us From The Possibility Of Worrying Is Bringing God In As The Greatest Factor In All Our Calculations.

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.

Watch Your Motive Before God; Have No Other Motive In Prayer Than To Know Him.

The Test Of The Life Of A Saint Is Not Success, But Faithfulness In Human Life As It Actually Is. We Will Set Up Success In Christian Work As The Aim; The Aim Is To Manifest The Glory Of God In Human Life, To Live The Life Hid With Christ In God In Human Conditions. Our Human Relationships Are The Actual Conditions In Which The Ideal Life Of God Is To Be Exhibited.

Faith By Its Very Nature Must Be Tried, And The Real Trial Of Faith Is Not That We Find It Difficult To Trust God, But That God's Character Has To Be Cleared In Our Own Minds. Faith In Its Actual Working Out Has To Go Through Spells Of Unsyllabled Isolation. Never Confound The Trial Of Faith With The Ordinary Discipline Of Life. Much That We Call The Trial Of Faith Is The Inevitable Result Of Being Alive.

The One True Mark Of A Saint Of God Is The Inner Creativity That Flows From Being Totally Surrendered To Jesus Christ.

Before God Can Use A Man Greatly He Must Wound Him Deeply.

We Are Not Meant To Be Seen As God's Perfect, Bright-shining Examples, But To Be Seen As The Everyday Essence Of Ordinary Life Exhibiting The Miracle Of His Grace.

The Secret Of Christian Quietness Is Not Indifference, But The Knowledge That God Is My Father, He Loves Me, And I Shall Never Think Of Anything He Will Forget. With This Knowledge, Worry Becomes An Impossibility.

There Comes The Baffling Call Of God In Our Lives Also. The Call Of God Can Never Be Stated Explicitly; It Is Implicit. The Call Of God Is Like The Call Of The Sea, No One Hears It But The One Who Has The Nature Of The Sea In Him. It Cannot Be Stated Definitely What The Call Of God Is To, Because His Call Is To Be In Comradeship With Himself, For His Own Purposes, And The Test Is To Believe That God Knows What He Is After.

Jesus Christ Founded His Kingdom On The Weakest Link Of All-a Baby.

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 My Ruling Disposition Is Self-interest, I Perceive That Everything That Happens To Me Is Always For Or Against My Self-interest; If, On The Other Hand, My Ruling Disposition Is Obedience To God, I Perceive Him To Be At Work For My Perfecting In Everything That Happens To Me.

We Should Always Choose Our Books As God Chooses Our Friends, Just A Bit Beyond Us, So That We Have To Do Our Level Best To Keep Up With Them.

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.

The Sermon On The Mount Is Not A Set Of Principles To Be Obeyed Apart From Identification With Jesus Christ. The Sermon On The Mount Is A Statement Of The Life We Will Live When The Holy Spirit Is Getting His Way With Us.

People Pour Themselves Into Their Own Doctrines, And God Has To Blast Them Out Of Their Preconceived Ideas Before They Can Become Devoted To Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Maturity Is Not Reached By The Passing Of The Years, But By Obedience To The Will Of God.

The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

Grace Is The Overflowing Favor Of God, And You Can Always Count On It Being Available To Draw Upon As Needed.

Faith That Is Sure Of Itself Is Not Faith; Faith That Is Sure Of God Is The Only Faith There Is.

The Characteristic Of The New Birth Is That I Yield Myself So Completely To God That Christ Is Formed In Me.

'i Have Chosen You!' Keep That Note Of Greatness In Your Creed. It Is Not That You Have Got God But That He Has Got You.

It Is A Great Thing To See Physical Courage, And Greater Still To See Moral Courage, But The Greatest To See Of All Is Spiritual Courage; Oh, To See A Person Who Will Stand True To The Integrity Of Jesus Christ No Matter What He Or She Goes Through!

You Must Learn To Wrestle Against The Things That Hinder Your Communication With God.

Communication With God

It Is Misleading To Imagine That We Are Developed In Spite Of Our Circumstances, For We Are Developed Because Of Them. It Is Mastery In Circumstances That Is Needed, Not Mastery Over Them.

Take Yourself By The Scruff Of The Neck And Shake Off Your Incarnate Laziness.

If You Want To Be Of Use To God, Maintain The Proper Relationship With Jesus Christ By Staying Focused On Him & He Will Make Use Of You Every Minute You Live- Yet You Will Be Unaware, On The Conscious Level Of Your Life, That You Are Being Used Of Him.

The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Utmost For His Highest

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

It Is The Unseen And The Spiritual In People That Determines The Outward And The Actual.

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

When A Man Is At His Wits' End It Is Not A Cowardly Thing To Pray, It Is The Only Way He Can Get In Touch With Reality.

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

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

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

Take Care Lest You Play The Hypocrite By Spending All Your Time Trying To Get Others Right Before You Worship God Yourself.

The Goal Of Faithfulness Is Not That We Will Do Work For God, But That He Will Be Free To Do His Work Through Us. God Calls Us To His Service And Places Tremendous Responsibilitie S On Us. He Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part. God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son.

If We Were Never Depressed We Would Not Be Alive - Only Material Things Don't Suffer Depression. If Human Beings Were Not Capable Of Depression, We Would Have No Capacity For Happiness And Exaltation. Whenever You Examine Yourself, Take Into Your Capacity For Depression.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Prayer Is Simple, Prayer Is Supernatural, And To Anyone Not Related To Our Lord Jesus Christ, Prayer Is Apt To Look Stupid.

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.

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

God Makes Us As Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine To Please Him. Beware Of Competing Calls Once The Call Of God Grips You.

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."

Many Of Us Refuse To Grow Where We Are Put; Consequently, We Take Root Nowhere.

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.

Let The Attitude Of Your Life Be A Continual Willingness To "go Out" In Dependence Upon God, And Your Life Will Have A Sacred And Inexpressible Charm About It That Is Very Satisfying To Jesus. You Must Learn To "go Out" Through Your Convictions, Creeds, Or Experiences Until You Come To The Point In Your Faith Where There Is Nothing Between Yourself And God.

Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God, And Either Sin Or God Must Die In My Life.

The Love Of God Is Not Created- It Is His Nature.

The Spirit Is The First Power We Practically Experience, But The Last Power We Come To Understand.

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.

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.

The Honour Of Jesus Christ Is At Stake In Your Bodily Life. Are You Remaining Loyal To The Son Of God In The Things Which Beset His Life In You? Do You Continue To Go With Jesus? The Way Lies Through Gethsemane, Through The City Gate, Outside The Camp; The Way Lies Alone, And The Way Lies Until There Is No Trace Of A Footstep Left, Only The Voice, 'follow Me.'

God Judges Us On The Basis Of The Miraculous Atonement By The Cross Of Christ.

Beware Of Giving Over To Mere Dreaming When Once God Has Spoken. Leave Him To Be The Source Of All Your Dreams And Joys And Delights, And Go Out And Obey What He Has Said. If You Are In Love, You Do Not Sit Down And Dream About The One You Love All The Time, You Go And Do Something For Him; And That Is What Jesus Christ Expects Us To Do. Dreaming After God Has Spoken Is An Indication That We Do Not Trust Him.

Not Often, But Every Once In A While, God Brings Us To A Major Turning Point — A Great Crossroads In Our Life.

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?

To Choose Suffering Makes No Sense At All; To Choose God's Will In The Midst Of Our Suffering Makes All The Sense In The World.

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.

When A Man Is Born From Above, The Life Of The Son Of God Is Born In Him, And He Can Either Starve That Life Or Nourish It. Prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished. Our Ordinary Views Of Prayer Are Not Found In The New Testament. We Look Upon Prayer As A Means Of Getting Things For Ourselves; The Bible's Idea Of Prayer Is That We May Get To Know God Himself.

My Unrestrained Commitment Of Myself To God Gives The Holy Spirit The Opportunity To Grant To Me The Holiness Of Jesus Christ.

The Knowledge That God Has Loved Me Beyond All Limits Will Compel Me To Go Into The World To Love Others In The Same Way.

I Have No Right To Say I Believe In God Unless I Order My Life As Under His All-seeing Eye.

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.

If You Have Ever Prayed In The Dawn You Will Ask Yourself Why You Were So Foolish As Not To Do It Always: It Is Difficult To Get Into Communion With God In The Midst Of The Hurly-burly Of The Day.

You May Often Have To Watch Jesus Christ Wreck A Life Before He Saves It.

When The Darkness Of Dismay Comes, Endure Until It Is Over, Because Out Of It Will Come That Following Of Jesus Which Is An Unspeakable Joy.

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

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.

It Is Perilously Easy To Have Amazing Sympathy With God's Truth And Remain In Sin.

So Many Of Us Limit Our Praying Because We Are Not Reckless In Our Confidence In God. In The Eyes Of Those Who Do Not Know God, It Is Madness To Trust Him, But When We Pray In The Holy Spirit We Begin To Realize The Resources Of God, That He Is Our Perfect Heavenly Father, And We Are His Children.

A Hypocrite Is One Who Plays Two Parts Consciously For His Own Ends. When We Find Fault With Other People We May Be Quite Sincere, And Yet Jesus Says In Reality We Are Frauds.

It Is Easier To Serve God Without A Vision, Easier To Work For God Without A Call, Because Then You Are Not Bothered By What God Requires; Common Sense Is Your Guide, Veneered Over With Christian Sentiment. You Will Be More Prosperous And Successful, More Leisure-hearted, If You Never Realize The Call Of God.

The Battle Is Lost Or Won In The Secret Places Of The Will Before God, Never First In The External World.

Our Prayers Are Heard, Not Because We Are In Earnest, Not Because We Suffer, But Because Jesus Suffered.

Make Converts To Your Own Thoughts And Opinions.

It Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third

The Christian Life Is One Of Spiritual Courage And Determination Lived Out In Our Flesh

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

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.

Never Run Before God Gives You His Direction. If You Have The Slightest Doubt, Then He Is Not Guiding. Whenever There Is Doubt-wait.

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 Agony Of A Man's Affliction Is Often Necessary To Put Him Into The Right Mood To Face The Fundamental Things Of Life. The Psalmist Says: "before I Was Afflicted I Went Astray, But Now Have I Kept Thy Word.

Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion. But Strictly Speaking, There Is No Call To That. Service Is What I Bring To The Relationship And Is The Reflection Of My Identification With The Nature Of God.

We Must Never Put Our Dreams Of Success As God's Purpose For Us; His Purpose May Be Exactly The Opposite. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And In His Power Now. His End Is The Process. It Is The Process, Not The End, Which Is Glorifying To God....his Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The 'afterwards' Of Obedience. If We Have A Further End In View, We Do Not Pay Sufficient Attention To The Immediate Present; If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment As It Comes Is Precious.

Faith Is Deliberate Confidence In The Character Of God Whose Ways You Cannot Understand At The Time.

Tell God You Are Ready To Be Offered, And God Will Prove Himself To Be All You Ever Dreamed He Would Be.

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.

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 Busyness Of Things Obscures Our Concentration On God ... Never Let A Hurried Lifestyle Disturb The Relationship Of Abiding In Him. This Is An Easy Thing To Allow, But We Must Guard Against It.

God Always Ignores The Present Perfection For The Ultimate Perfection.

The Truth Is We Have Nothing To Fear And Nothing To Overcome Because He Is All In All And We Are More Than Conquerors Through Him.

Prayer Is Not An Exercise, It Is The Life.

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.

We Can All See God In Exceptional Things, But It Requires The Culture Of Spiritual Discipline To See God In Every Detail.

The Thing That Awakens The Deepest Fountain Of Gratitude In A Human Being Is That God Has Forgiven His Sin.

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.

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

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

Never Become Attached To Anything That Continues To Hurt God. For You To Be Free Of It, God Must Be Allowed To Hurt Whatever It May Be.

The Golden Rule For Understanding Spiritually Is Not Intellect, But Obedience. If A Man Wants Scientific Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity Is His Guide; But If He Wants Insight Into What Jesus Christ Teaches, He Can Only Get It By Obedience.

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.

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.

Temptation Is A Suggested Short Cut To The Realization Of The Highest At Which I Aim - Not Towards What I Understand As Evil, But Towards What I Understand As Good.

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.

When The Spirit Fills Us, We Are Transformed, And By Beholding God We Become Mirrors. You Can Always Tell When Someone Has Been Beholding The Glory Of The Lord, Because Your Inner Spirit Senses That He Mirrors The Lord’s Own Character. Beware Of Anything That Would Spot Or Tarnish That Mirror In You. It Is Almost Always Something Good That Will Stain It- Something Good, But Not What Is Best.

Suppose God Wants To Teach You To Say, "i Know How To Be Abased"--are You Ready To Be Offered Up Like That? Are You Ready To Be Not So Much As A Drop In A Bucket--to Be So Hopelessly Insignificant That You Are Never Thought Of Again In Connection With The Life You Served? Are You Willing To Spend And Be Spent; Not Seeking To Be Ministered Unto, But To Minister?

Intercession Is About Putting Ourselves In Other’s Shoes Or Having Sympathy With Others. But Intercessions Are About Having The Mind Of God And See Things Through His Perspective

Doubt Is Not Always A Sign That A Man Is Wrong; It May Be A Sign That He Is Thinking.

Every Element Of Our Own Self-reliance Must Be Put To Death By The Power Of God.

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.

The Real Meaning Of Eternal Life Is A Life That Can Face Anything Is Has To Face Without Wavering. If We Take This View, Life Becomes One Great Romance, A Glorious Opportunity For Seeing Marvelous Things All The Time. God Is Disciplining Us To Get Us Into This Central Place Of Power.

If You Are Going On With God, The Only Thing That Is Clear To You, And The Only Thing God Intends To Be Clear, Is The Way He Deals With Your Own Soul.

The Test Of A Man’s Religious Life And Character Is Not What He Does In The Exceptional Moments Of Life, But What He Does In The Ordinary Times, When There Is Nothing Tremendous Or Exciting On. The Worth Of A Man Is Revealed In His Attitude To Ordinary Things When He Is Not Before The Footlights.

Spiritual Lust Causes Me To Demand An Answer From God, Instead Of Seeking God Himself Who Gives The Answer.

The Remarkable Thing About God Is That When You Fear God, You Fear Nothing Else, Whereas If You Do Not Fear God, You Fear Everything Else.

If There Is A God

We Are Only What We Are In The Dark; All The Rest Is Reputation.

The Great Thing About Faith In God Is That It Keeps A Man Undisturbed In The Midst Of Disturbance.

God Is Not Concerned About Our Plans; He Doesn’t Ask, “do You Want To Go Through This Loss Of A Loved One, This Difficulty, Or This Defeat?” No, He Allows These Things For His Own Purpose. The Things We Are Going Through Are Either Making Us Sweeter, Better, And Nobler Men And Women, Or They Are Making Us More Critical And Fault-finding, And More Insistent On Our Own Way. The Things That Happen Either Make Us Evil, Or They Make Us More Saintly, Depending Entirely On Our Relationship With God And Its Level Of Intimacy.

Not Every Man Can Carry A Full Cup. Sudden Elevation Frequently Leads To Pride And A Fall. The Most Exacting Test Of All To Survive Is Prosperity.

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

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

God Never Fits His Word To Suit Me; He Fits Me To Suit His Word.

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God. That Is Why There Are So Few Fellow Workers With God And So Many Workers For Him. We Would Far Rather Work For God Than Believe In Him.

Be Exhausted For God, But Remember That Your Supply Comes From Him. 'all My Fresh Springs Shall Be In Thee.'

We Think Of Prayer As A Preparation For Work, Or A Calm After Having Done Work, Whereas Prayer Is The Essential Work.

And It Is Not Repentance That Saves Me — Repentance Is Only The Sign That I Realize What God Has Done Through Christ Jesus.

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.

What A Blessed Habit I Have Found My Prayer List, Morning By Morning, It Takes Me Via The Throne Of All Grace Straight To The Intimate Personal Heart Of Each One Mentioned Here, And I Know That He Who Is Not Prescribed By Time And Geography Answers Immediately.

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.

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 You Yourself Do Not Cut The Lines That Tie You To The Dock, God Will Have To Use A Storm To Sever Them And To Send You Out To Sea. You Have To Get Out Past The Harbor Into The Great Dephts Of God, And Begin To Know Things For Yourself....beg In To Have Spiritual Discernment. Beware Of Paying Attention Or Going Back To What You Once Were, When God Wants You To Be Something That You Have Never Been.

Disillusionment Means Having No More Misconceptions, False Impressions, And False Judgments In Life; It Means Being Free From These Deceptions. Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life.

The Christian Life Is Stamped By 'moral Spontaneous Originality,' Consequently The Disciple Is Open To The Same Charge That Jesus Christ Was, Viz., That Of Inconsistency. But Jesus Christ Was Always Consistent To God, And The Christian Must Be Consistent To The Life Of The Son Of God In Him, Not Consistent To Hard And Fast Creeds. Men Pour Themselves Into Creeds, And God Has To Blast Them Out Of Their Prejudices Before They Can Become Devoted To Jesus Christ.

We Always Have Visions, Before A Thing Is Made Real. When We Realize That Although The Vision Is Real, It Is Not Real In Us, Then Is The Time That Satan Comes In With His Temptations, And We Are Apt To Say That It Is No Use To Go On. Instead Of The Vision Becoming Real, There Has Come The Valley Of Humiliation.

Have You Ever Sought God With Your Whole Heart, Or Have You Simply Given Him A Feeble Cry After Some Emotionally Painful Experience?

Painful Experiences

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

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

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

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

Impossible Things

We Are Not Built For Ourselves, But For God. Not For Service For God, But For God.

The Prayer Of The Saints Is Never Self-important, But Always God-important.

If God Sees That My Spiritual Life Will Be Furthered By Giving The Things For Which I Ask, Then He Will Give Them, But That Is Not The End Of Prayer. The End Of Prayer Is That I Come To Know God Himself.

Prayer Is God's Answer To Our Poverty, Not A Power We Exercise To Obtain An Answer.

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

We Tend To Use Prayer As A Last Resort, But God Wants It To Be Our First Line Of Defense.

The Man Who Prays Ceases To Be A Fool

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.

Are You Willing To Give And Be Poured Out Until You Are Used Up And Exhausted-not Seeking To Be Ministered To, But To Minister?

If Sympathy Is All That Human Beings Need, Then The Cross Of Christ Is An Absurdity And There Is Absolutely No Need For It. What The World Needs Is Not "a Little Bit Of Love," But Major Surgery. If You Think You Are Helping Lost People With Your Sympathy And Understanding, You Are A Traitor To Jesus Christ. You Must Have A Right-standing Relationship With Him Yourself, And Pour Your Life Out In Helping Others In His Way— Not In A Human Way That Ignores God.

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.

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

Continually Revise Your Relationship To God Until The Only Certainty You Have Is Not That You Are Faithful, But That He Is.

Our Relationship

Some Of Us Are Like The Dead Sea, Always Taking In But Never Giving Out, Because We Are Not Rightly Related To The Lord Jesus.

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.

What The World Needs Is Not 'a Little Bit Of Love', But A Surgical Operation.

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?

Prayer Is An Effort Of Will.

Am I Prepared To Let God Grip Me By His Power And Do A Work In Me That Is Worthy Of Himself? Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God's Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me, And He Has To Get Me Into The Attitude Of Mind And Spirit Where At Any Cost I Will Let Him Sanctify Me Wholly.

No Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ.

There Is Only One Relationship That Matters, And That Is Your Personal Relationship To A Personal Redeemer And Lord. Let Everything Else Go, But Maintain That At All Cost, And God Will Fulfill His Purpose Through Your Life. (this Includes Meeting The Needs Of Your Heart.) One Individual Life May Be Of Priceless Value To God's Purposes, And Yours May Be That Life.

The Center Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Jesus, And The Reason It Is So Easy To Obtain Salvation Is Because It Cost God So Much.

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.

We All Know People Who Have Been Made Much Meaner And More Irritable And More Intolerable To Live With By Suffering: It Is Not Right To Say That All Suffering Perfects. It Only Perfects One Type Of Person ...... The One Who Accepts The Call Of God In Christ Jesus.

When We Are Abandoned To God, He Works Through Us All The Time.

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.

The Sympathy Which Is Reverent With What It Cannot Understand Is Worth Its Weight In Gold.

God Will Never Reveal More Truth About Himself Until You Have Obeyed What You Know Already

Human Nature, If Healthy, Demands Excitement; And If It Does Not Obtain Its Thrilling Excitement In The Right Way, It Will Seek It In The Wrong. God Never Makes Bloodless Stoics; He Makes No Passionless Saints.

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.

Get Into The Habit Of Saying, ''speak, Lord,'' And Life Will Become A Romance.

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