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The Path Of Peace For Us Is To Hand Ourselves Over To God And Ask Him To Search Us, Not What We Think We Are, Or What Other People Think We Are, Or What We Persuade Ourselves We Are Or Would Like To Be, But 'search Me Out, O God, Explore Me As I Really Am In Thy Sight.'

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The Path Of Peace

Oswald Chambers

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The Path Of Peace For Us Is To Hand Ourselves Over To God And Ask Him To Search Us, Not What We Think We Are, Or What Other People Think We Are, Or What We Persuade Ourselves We Are Or Would Like To Be, But 'search Me Out, O God, Explore Me As I Really Am In Thy Sight.'

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Readiness For God Means That We Are Ready To Do The Tiniest Little Thing Or The Great Big Thing, It Makes No Difference

Sanctification Means The Impartation Of The Holy Qualities Of Jesus Christ. It Is His Patience, His Love, His Holiness, His Faith, His Purity, His Godliness, That Is Manifested In And Through Every Sanctified Soul. Sanctification Is Not Drawing From Jesus The Power To Be Holy; It Is Drawing From Jesus The Holiness That Was Manifested In Him, And He Manifests It In Me.

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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.

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.

Beware Of Any Work For God That Causes Or Allows You To Avoid Concentrating On Him.

Sometimes There Is Nothing To Obey, The Only Thing To Do Is To Maintain A Vital Connection With Jesus Christ, To See That Nothing Interferes With That.

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.

Am I As Spontaneously Kind To God As I Used To Be, Or Am I Only Expecting God To Be Kind To Me? Am I Full Of The Little Things That Cheer His Heart Over Me, Or Am I Whimpering Because Things Are Going Hardly With Me? There Is No Joy In The Soul That Has Forgotten What God Prizes.

My Personal Life May Be Crowded With Small Petty Incidents, Altogether Unnoticeable And Mean; But If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Haphazard Circumstances, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God, And When I Stand Face To Face With God I Will Discover That Through My Obedience Thousands Were Blessed. When Once God's Redemption Comes To The Point Of Obedience In A Human Soul, It Always Creates. If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Rush Through Me To Other Lives, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

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.

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

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.

God's End Is To Enable Me To See That He Can Walk On The Chaos Of My Life Just Now.

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.

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.

If We Obey God It Is Going To Cost Other People More Than It Costs Us, And That Is Where The Sting Comes In. If We Are In Love With Our Lord, Obedience Does Not Cost Us Anything, It Is A Delight, But It Costs Those Who Do Not Love Him A Good Deal.

You Say, "but He Has Not Answered." He Has, He Is So Near To You That His Silence Is The Answer. His Silence Is Big With Terrific Meaning That You Cannot Understand Yet, But Presently You Will.

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Prayer Is The Practice Of Drawing On The Grace Of God. Don't Say, "i Will Endure This Until I Can Get Away And Pray." Pray Now - Draw On The Grace Of God In Your Moment Of Need. Prayer Is The Most Normal And Useful Thing; It Is Not Simply A Reflex Action Of Your Devotion To God. We Are Very Slow To Learn To Draw On God's Grace Through Prayer.

Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.

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

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?

Am I Getting Nobler, Better, More Helpful, More Humble, As I Get Older? Am I Exhibiting The Life That Men Take Knowledge Of As Having Been With Jesus, Or Am I Getting More Self-assertive, More Deliberately Determined To Have My Own Way? It Is A Great Thing To Tell Yourself The Truth.

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The Great Enemy Of The Life Of Faith In God Is Not Sin, But The Good Which Is Not Good Enough. The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

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We Pray When There's Nothing Else We Can Do; Jesus Wants Us To Pray Before We Do Anything At All.

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.

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Never Be Hurried Out Of The Relationship Of Abiding In Him.

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

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Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry. We Are Always In Such A Frantic Hurry. In The Light Of The Glory Of The Vision We Go Forth To Do Things, But The Vision Is Not Real In Us Yet; And God Has To Take Us Into The Valley, And Put Us Through Fires And Floods To Batter Us Into Shape, Until We Get To The Place Where He Can Trust Us.... Let Him Put You On His Wheel And Whirl You As He Likes, And As Sure As God Is God And You Are You, You Will Turn Out Exactly In Accordance With The Vision. Don't Lose Heart In The Process.

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.

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

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.

Beware Of Any Work For God That Causes Or Allows You To Avoid Concentrating On Him. A Great Number Of Christian Workers Worship Their Work. The Only Concern Of Christian Workers Should Be Their Concentration On God.

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

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

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

Prayer Is Not Getting Things From God. That Is A Most Initial Stage; Prayer Is Getting Into Perfect Communion With God: I Tell Him What I Know He Knows In Order That I May Get To Know It As He Does.

There Is No Greater Threat To Our Devotion To Christ Than Our Service For Christ.

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

Abandonment To God Is Of More Value Than Personal Holiness!

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.

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

The Crisis Will Reveal Whether We Have Been Practicing Or Not.

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

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.

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

Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

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.

Christianity Is Not Consistency To Conscience Or To Convictions; Christianity Is Being True To Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Never Referred To Unanswered Prayer. He Taught That Prayers Are Always Answered: “everyone Who Asks Receives”. And He Implied That Prayers Are Answered Rightly Because Of The Heavenly Father's Wisdom: “your Father Knows The Things You Have Need Of Before You Ask 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.

If We Pray Only Because We Want Answers, We Will Become Irritated And Angry With God. We Receive An Answer Every Time We Pray, But It Does Not Always Come In The Way We Expect, And Our Spiritual Irritation Shows Our Refusal To Identify Ourselves Truly With Our Lord In Prayer. We Are Not Here To Prove That God Answers Prayer, But To Be Living Trophies Of God’s Grace.

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God; We Mistake Panic For Inspiration.

It Is By No Haphazard Chance That In Every Age Men Have Risen Early To Pray. The First Thing That Marks Decline In Spiritual Life Is Our Relationship To The Early Morning.

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.

Make The Determination To Abide In Jesus Wherever You Are Now Or Wherever You May Be Placed In The Future.

Faith Is The Inborn Capacity To See God Behind Everything.

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

We Have To Pray With Our Eyes On God, Not On The Difficulties.

Christian Inspirational

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

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.

Our Lord Was 30 Years Preparing For 3 Years Of Service. The Modern Stamp Is To Spend 3 Hours Preparing For 30 Years Of Service.

My Worth To God In Public Is What I Am In Private.

Nothing In Our Lives Is A Mere Insignificant Detail To God.

God's Grace Turns Out Men And Women With A Strong Family Likeness To Jesus Christ, Not Milksops.

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.

There Is No Condition Of Life In Which We Cannot Abide In Jesus. We Have To Learn To Abide In Him Wherever We Are Placed.

The Historic Idea That The Devil Tempts Men Had This Remarkable Effect, It Produced The Man Of Iron Who Fought; The Modern Idea Of Blaming His Heredity Or His Circumstances Produces The Man Who Gives In At Once.

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.

We Must Learn To Tell Ourselves The Truth On The Basis Of God’s Word.

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.

The Holy Ghost Is The Only One Who Can Detect The Temptations Of Satan, Neither Our Common Sense Nor Our Human Wisdom Can Detect Them As Temptations.

I Cannot Give Up My Will - I Must Exercise It, Putting It Into Action.

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

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

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

Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not.

Every Time We Pray Our Horizon Is Altered, Our Attitude To Things Is Altered, Not Sometimes But Every Time, And The Amazing Thing Is That We Don't Pray More.

God Did Not Direct His Call To Isaiah— Isaiah Overheard God Saying, ". . . Who Will Go For Us?" The Call Of God Is Not Just For A Select Few But For Everyone. Whether I Hear God’s Call Or Not Depends On The Condition Of My Ears, And Exactly What I Hear Depends Upon My Spiritual Attitude.

God Never Estimates What We Give From Impulse. We Are Given Credit For What We Determine In Our Hearts To Give; For The Giving That Is Governed By A Fixed Determination. The Spirit Of God Revolutionises Our Philanthropic Instincts. Much Of Our Philanthropy Is Simply The Impulse To Save Ourselves An Uncomfortable Feeling. The Spirit Of God Alters All That. As Saints Our Attitude Towards Giving Is That We Give For Jesus Christ's Sake, And From No Other Motive.

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.

When You Are Insulted, You Must Not Only Not Resent It, But You Must Make It An Opportunity To Exhibit The Son Of God In Your Life. And You Cannot Imitate The Nature Of Jesus-it Is Either In You Or It Is Not. A Personal Insult Becomes An Opportunity For A Saint To Reveal The Incredible Sweetness Of The Lord Jesus.

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

We Lean To Our Own Understanding, Or We Bank On Service And Do Away With Prayer, And Consequently By Succeeding In The External We Fail In The Eternal, Because In The Eternal We Succeed Only By Prevailing Prayer.

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.

When You Fear God You Fear Nothing Else!

A River Reaches Places Its Source Never Knows.

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

Do Not Have As Your Motive The Desire To Be Known As A Praying Man. Get An Inner Chamber In Which To Pray Where No One Knows You Are Praying, Shut The Door, And Talk To God In Secret.

We Look Upon The Enemy Of Our Souls As A Conquered Foe, So He Is, But Only To God, Not To Us.

Once The Call Of God Comes To You, Start Going And Never Stop.

One Life Totally Devoted To God Is Of More Value To Him Than One Hundred Lives Which Have Been Simply Awakened By His Spirit.

To Be 'in The Will Of God' Is Not A Matter Of Intellectual Discernment, But A State Of Heart.

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.

Temptations In The Life Of Faith Are Not Accidents; Each Temptation Is Part Of A Plan, A Step In The Progress Of Faith.

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

Worshipping God Is The Great Essential Of Fitness. If You Have Not Been Worshipping...when You Get To Work You Will Not Only Be Useless Yourself, But A Tremendous Hindrance To Those Who Are Associated With You.

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

The Real Business Of Your Life As A Saved Soul Is Intercessory Prayer.

You Will Never Cease To Be The Most Amazed Person On Earth At What God Has Done For You On The Inside.

Christian Inspirational

Our Natural Virtues Can Never Come Anywhere Near What Jesus Christ Wants.

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.

We Have An Idea That God Is Leading Us To A Particular End, A Desired Goal; He Is Not...what We Call The Process God Calls The End. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And His Power Now. It Is The Process, Not The End That Is Glorifying To God.

Forgiveness Is The Divine Miracle Of Grace. The Cost To God Was The Cross Of Christ.

The God Who Guides The Stars, Unhasting And Unresting, Will As Assuredly Fulfill What He Has Promised.

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.

Am I Learning How To Use My Bible? The Way To Become Complete For The Master’s Service Is To Be Well Soaked In The Bible; Some Of Us Only Exploit Certain Passages. Our Lord Wants To Give Us Continuous Instruction Out Of His Word; Continuous Instruction Turns Hearers Into Disciples.

God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede.

It Is Perilously Possible To Make Our Conceptions Of God Like Molten Lead Poured Into A Specially Designed Mould, And When It Is Cold And Hard We Fling It At The Heads Of The Religious People Who Don't Agree With Us.

God Never Gives Strength For Tomorrow, Or For The Next Hour, But Only For The Strain Of The Minute.

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

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

Every God-given Vision Will Become Real If We Will Only Have Patience.

We Imagine That Whatever Is Unpleasant Is Our Duty! Is That Anything Like The Spirit Of Our Lord, "i *delight* To Do Thy Will, O My God.

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.

God Cannot Reveal Anything To Us If We Have Not His Spirit.

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.

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

We Have To Recognize That Sin Is A Fact, Not A Defect; Sin Is Red-handed Mutiny Against God. Either God Or Sin Must Die In My Life...if Sin Rules In Me, God's Life In Me Will Be Killed; If God Rules In Me, Sin In Me Will Be Killed.

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

It Is Not True To Say That God Wants To Teach Us Something In Our Trials. Through Every Cloud He Brings Our Way, He Wants Us To Unlearn Something.

Living A Life Of Faith Means Never Knowing Where You Are Being Led.

The Greatest Competitor Of True Devotion To Jesus Is The Service We Do For Him. It Is Easier To Serve Than To Pour Out Our Lives Completely For Him.

The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

God Never Forces A Person's Will Into Surrender, And He Never Begs. He Patiently Waits Until That Person Willingly Yields To Him. True Surrender Is A Matter Of Being 'united Together [with Jesus] In The Likeness Of His Death' (romans 6:5) Until Nothing Ever Appeals To You That Did Not Appeal To Him. And After You Surrender--then What? Your Entire Life Should Be Characterized By An Eagerness To Maintain Unbroken Fellowship And Oneness With God.

Never Allow Anything That Divides Or Destroys The Oneness Of Your Life With Christ To Remain In Your Life Without Facing It.

If We Simply Preach The Effects Of Redemption In The Human Life Instead Of The Revealed, Divine Truth Regarding Jesus Himself, The Result Is Not New Birth In Those Who Listen. The Result Is {only} A Refined Religious Lifestyle . . . We Must Make Sure That We Are Living In Such Harmony With God That As We Proclaim His Truth He Can Create In Others Those Things Which He Alone Can Do.

At His Ascension Our Lord Entered Heaven, And He Keeps The Door Open For Humanity To Enter.

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.

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.

Never Make A Principle Out Of Your Experience. Allow God To Be As Creative With Others As He Is With You.

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.

Prayer Is Not Logical, It Is A Mysterious Moral Working Of The Holy Spirit.

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

There Is Nothing To Be Valued More Highly Than To Have People Praying For Us; God Links Up His Power In Answer To Their Prayers.

Watch Where Jesus Went. The One Dominant Note In His Life Was To Do His Father's Will. His Was Not The Way Of Wisdom Or Of Success, But The Way Of Faithfulness.

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.

It Is Easy To Say We Believe In God As Long As We Remain In The Little World We Choose To Live In; But Get Out Into The Great World Of Facts, The Noisy World Where People Are Absolutely Indifferent To You, Where Your Message Is Nothing More Than A Crazy Tale Belonging To A Bygone Age, Can You Believe God There?

If We Are To Be Ready For Jesus Christ, We Have To Stop Being Religious (that Is, Using Religion As A Higher Kind Of Culture) And Be Spiritually Real.

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

We Must Learn To Live In The Ordinary 'gray' Day According To What We Saw On The Mountain.

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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