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The Most Important Aspect Of Christianity Is Not The Work We Do, But The Relationship We Maintain And The Surrounding Influence And Qualities Produced By That Relationship. That Is All God Asks Us To Give Our Attention To, And It Is The One Thing That Is Continually Under Attack.

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The Most Important Aspect Of Christianity Is Not The Work We Do, But The Relationship We Maintain And The Surrounding Influence And Qualities Produced By That Relationship. That Is All God Asks Us To Give Our Attention To, And It Is The One Thing That Is Continually Under Attack.

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

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.

It Is Possible To Know All About Doctrine And Yet Not Know Jesus. The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus. ....have I A Personal History With Jesus Christ? The One Sign Of Discipleship Is Intimate Connection With Him, A Knowledge Of Jesus Christ Nothing Can Shake.

We Tend To Set Up Success In Christian Work As Our Purpose, But Our Purpose Should Be To Display The Glory Of God In Human Life, To Live A Life "hidden With Christ In God" In Our Everyday Human Conditions.

One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God 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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Keep Your Soul Fit To Manifest The Life Of The Son Of God. Never Live On Memories; Let The Word Of God Be Always Living And Active In You.

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

God Brings You To Places, Among People, And Into Certain Conditions To Accomplish A Definite Purpose Through The Intercession Of The Spirit In You. Your Part In Intercessory Prayer Is Not To Agonize Over How To Intercede, But To Use The Everyday Circumstances And People God Puts Around You By His Providence To Bring Them Before His Throne, And To Allow The Spirit In You The Opportunity To Intercede For Them. In This Way God Is Going To Touch The Whole World With His Saints.

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

If We Are Going To Live As Disciples Of Jesus, We Have To Remember That All Noble Things Are Difficult. The Christian Life Is Gloriously Difficult, But The Difficulty Of It Does Not Make Us Faint And Cave In, It Rouses Us Up To Overcome.

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

A Private Relationship Of Worshiping God Is The Greatest Essential Element Of Spiritual Fitness.

If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Seemingly Random Circumstances Of Life, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God.

We Are Built For The Valley, For The Ordinary Stuff We Are In, And That Is Where We Have To Prove Our Mettle.

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.

The Greatest Need We Have Is Not To Do Things, But To Believe Things.

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?

There Is Nothing More Certain In Time Or Eternity Than What Jesus Christ Did On The Cross.

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

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.

When Someone Thinks That To Develop A Holy Life He Must Always Be Alone With God, He Is No Longer Of Any Use To Others.

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.

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.

Death Is God's Delightful Way Of Giving Us 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.

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 Make The Blunder Of Trying To Forecast The Way God Is Going To Answer Your Prayer.

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Only One In A Thousand Sits Down In The Midst Of It All And Says—i Will Watch My Father Mend This. God Must Not Be Treated As A Hospital For Our Broken “toys,” But As Our Father.

Our Understanding Of God Is The Answer To Prayer; Getting Things From God Is God's Indulgence Of Us. When God Stops Giving Us Things, He Brings Us Into The Place Where We Can Begin To Understand Him.

Never Water Down The Word Of God, But Preach It In Its Undiluted Sternness. There Must Be Unflinching Faithfulness To The Word Of God, But When You Come To Personal Dealings With Others, Remember Who You Are- You Are Not Some Special Being Created In Heaven, But A Sinner Saved By Grace.

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

Our Lord Insists On The Social Aspect Of Our Lives: He Shows Very Distinctly That We Cannot Further Ourselves Alone.

It Is Not A Lack Of Spiritual Experience That Leads To Failure, But A Lack Of Working To Keep Our Eyes Focused And On The Right Goal. At Least Once A Week Examine Yourself Before God To See If Your Life Is Measuring Up To The Standard He Has For You. Paul Was Like A Musician Who Gives No Thought To Audience Approval, If He Can Only Catch A Look Of Approval From His Conductor.

Don't Plan Without God. God Seems To Have A Delightful Way Of Upsetting The Plans We Have Made, When We Have Not Taken Him Into Account.

Wait On God And He Will Work, But Don't Wait In Spiritual Sulks Because You Cannot See An Inch In Front Of You! Are We Detached Enough From Our Spiritual Hysterics To Wait On God? To Wait Is Not To Sit With Folded Hands, But To Learn To Do What We Are Told.

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.

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

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.

A Heartless Christian Must Be A Terrible Grief To Our Lord.

The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is Not--do Your Duty, But--do What Is Not Your Duty. It Is Not Your Duty To Go The Second Mile, To Turn The Other Cheek, But Jesus Says If We Are His Disciples We Shall Always Do These Things. There Will Be No Spirit Of--"oh, Well, I Cannot Do Any More, I Have Been So Misrepresented And Misunderstood". . . Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Are Always Looking For Justice; The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is--never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Live It.

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.

Be Persistent With Your Disturbance Until You Get Face To Face With The Lord Himself. Don't Deify Common Sense.

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.

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.

Get Into The Habit Of Dealing With God About Everything. Unless In The First Waking Moment Of The Day You Learn To Fling The Door Wide Back And Let God In, You Will Work On A Wrong Level All Day; But Swing The Door Wide Open And Pray To Your Father In Secret, And Every Public Thing Will Be Stamped With The Presence Of God.

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.

Our True Character Comes Out In The Way We Pray.

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.

We Do Not Pray At All Until We Are At Our Wits' End.

God Gets Me Into A Relationship With Himself Whereby I Understand His Call, Then I Do Things Out Of Sheer Love For Him On My Own Account. To Serve God Is The Deliberate Love-gift Of A Nature That Has Heard The Call Of God.

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

A Sentimentalist Is One Who Delights To Have High And Devout Emotions Stirred Whilst Reading In An Arm-chair, Or In A Prayer Meeting, But He Never Translates His Emotions Into Action. Consequently A Sentimentalist Is Usually Callous, Self-centred And Selfish, Because The Emotions He Likes To Have Stirred Do Not Cost Him Anything.

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