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The Real Test Of A Saint Is Not One's Willingness To Preach The Gospel, But One's Willingness To Do Something Like Washing The Disciples' Feet - That Is, Being Willing To Do Those Things That Seem Unimportant In Human Estimation But Count As Everything To God.

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The Real Test Of A Saint Is Not One's Willingness To Preach The Gospel, But One's Willingness To Do Something Like Washing The Disciples' Feet - That Is, Being Willing To Do Those Things That Seem Unimportant In Human Estimation But Count As Everything To God.

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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.

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Perseverance Is More Than Endurance. It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen.

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.

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 Is The Great Engineer, Creating Circumstances To Bring About Moments In Our Lives Of Divine Importance, Leading Us To Divine Appointments

Spiritual Character Is Only Made By Standing Loyal To God's Character, No Matter What Distress The Trial Of Faith Brings. The Distress And Agony The Prophets Experienced Was The Agony Of Believing God When Everything That Was Happening Contradicted What They Proclaimed Him To Be; There Was Nothing To Prove That God Was Just And True, But Everything To Prove The Opposite.

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.

There Is No Need To Get To A Place Of Prayer; Pray Wherever You Are.

If We Understood What Happens When We Use The Word Of God, We Would Use It Oftener.

God Places His Saints Where They Will Bring The Most Glory To Him, And We Are Totally Incapable Of Judging Where That May Be.

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

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.

The Whole Point Of Getting Things Done Is Knowing What To Leave Undone.

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?

Be Rightly Related To God, Find Your Joy There, And Out Of You Will Flow Rivers Of Living Water.

Let The Consequences Of Your Obedience Be Left Up To God.

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

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

I Have To Learn That The Aim In Life Is God's, Not Mine.

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

There Is Only One Being Who Can Satisfy The Last Aching Abyss Of The Human Heart, And That Is The Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible Talks Plentifully About Joy, But It Nowhere Talks About A 'happy Christian.' Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not. Remember, Jesus Christ Had Joy, And He Prayed 'that They Might Have My Joy Fulfilled In Themselves.'

Believe Steadfastly On Him And Everything That Challenges You Will Strengthen Your Faith. There Is Continual Testing In The Life Of Faith Up To The Point Of Our Physical Death, Which Is The Last Great Test. Faith Is Absolute Trust In God-trust That Could Never Imagine That He Would Forsake 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 More You Fulfill Yourself, The Less You Will Seek God.

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.

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.'

Repentance Always Brings A Person To The Point Of Saying, “i Have Sinned.” The Surest Sign That God Is At Work In His Life Is When He Says That And Means It. Anything Less Is Simply Sorrow For Having Made Foolish Mistakes-a Reflex Action Caused By Self-disgust.

Go Therefore And Make Disciples Of All The Nations

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.

We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly And Surely The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us In Every Part, And Men Will Take Knowledge Of Us That We Have Been With Jesus.

We Preach To Men As If They Were Conscious They Were Dying Sinners, They Are Not; They Are Having A Good Time.

We Can Never Be Like Lillies In The Garden Unless We Have Spent Time As Bulbs In The Dark, Totally Ignored.

The Greatest Test Of A Man's Character Is His Tongue.

Quit Praying About Yourself And Spend Your Life For The Sake Of Others As The Bondservant Of Jesus. That Is The True Meaning Of Being Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine In Real Life.

A River Reaches Places Its Source Never Knows.

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

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.

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.

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

Am I Always In Contact With Reality, Or Do I Only Pray When Things Have Gone Wrong, When There Is A Disturbance In The Moments Of My Life?

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

Jesus Christ Has Undertaken By His Redemption To Put In Me A Heart So Pure That God Can See Nothing To Censure.

Beware Of The Inclination To Dictate To God What Consequences You Would Allow As A Condition Of Your Obedience To Him.

A Saint Realizes That It Is God Who Engineers His Circumstances; Consequently There Are No Complaints, Only Unrestrained Surrender To Jesus.

We Say, Sorrow, Disaster, Calamity. God Says, Chastening And It Sounds Sweet To Him Though It Is A Discord To Our Ears. Don't Faint When You Are Rebuked, And Don't Despise The Chastening Of The Lord. In Your Patience Possess Your Souls.

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.

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.

We Think Rightly Or Wrongly About Prayer According To The Conception We Have In Our Minds Of Prayer. If We Think Of Prayer As The Breath In Our Lungs And The Blood From Our Hearts, We Think Rightly. The Blood Flows Ceaselessly, And Breathing Continues Ceaselessly; We Are Not Conscious Of It, But It Is Always Going On. We Are Not Always Conscious Of Jesus Keeping Us In Perfect Joint With God, But If We Are Obeying Him, He Always Is.

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.

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

Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Always Look For Justice In This World, But There Is No Such Thing As Justice. Jesus Says — Never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Give It.

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.

It Is Easy For Us To Tarnish God's Character Because He Never Argues Back; He Never Tries To Defend Or Vindicate Himself.

Are You Debating Whether You Should Take A Step Of Faith In Jesus, Or Whether You Should Wait Until You Can Clearly See How To Do What He Has Asked? Simply Obey Him With Unrestrained Joy. When He Tells You Something And You Begin To Debate, It Is Because You Have A Misunderstanding Of What Honors Him And What Doesn't. Are You Faithful To Jesus, Or Faithful To Your Ideas About Him?

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 Greatest Test Of Christianity Is The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life; It Is Like The Shining Of Silver: The More It Is Rubbed The Brighter It Grows.

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.

You Do Not Know What You Are Going To Do,the Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......it Is This Attitude That Keeps You In Perpetual Wonder-you Do Not Know What God Is Going To Do Next.

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

In The Spiritual Domain, Criticism Is Love Turned Sour... If Criticism Becomes A Habit, It Will Destroy The Moral Energy Of The Life And Paralyze The Spiritual Force... Whenever You Are In A Critical Temper, It Is Impossible To Enter Into Communion With God. Criticism Makes You Hard And Vindictive And Cruel, And Leaves You With The Flattering Unction That You Are A Superior Person. It Is Impossible To Develop The Characteristics Of A Saint And Maintain A Critical Attitude.

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.

The Greatest Answer To Prayer Is That I Am Brought Into A Perfect Understanding With God, And That Alters My View Of Actual Things.

Prayer Is Simple, As Simple As A Child Making Known Its Wants To It Parents.

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

What Is The Sign Of A Friend? Is It That He Tells You His Secret Sorrows? No, It Is That He Tells You His Secret Joys. Many People Will Confide Their Secret Sorrows To You, But The Final Mark Of Intimacy Is When They Share Their Secret Joys With You.

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.

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.

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.

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

If Through A Broken Heart God Can Bring His Purposes To Pass In The World, Then Thank Him For Breaking Your Heart.

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

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

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.

A River Reaches Places Which Its Source Never Knows. And Jesus Said That, If We Have Received His Fullness, "rivers Of Living Water" Will Flow Out Of Us, Reaching In Blessing Even "to The End Of The Earth" Regardless Of How Small The Visible Effects Of Our Lives May Appear To Be.

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.

The Height Of The Mountaintop Is Measured By The Drab Drudgery Of The Valley.

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.

Many Of Us Have A Mental Conception Of What A Christian Should Be, And The Lives Of The Saints Become A Hindrance To Our Concentration On God.

Never Consider Whether You Are Of Use; But Ever Consider That You Are Not Your Own But His.

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.

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

Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

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

It Is Impossible To Live The Life Of A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer. You Will Find That The Place To Enter In Is In Your Business, As You Walk Along The Streets, In The Ordinary Ways Of Life, When No One Dreams You Are Praying, And The Reward Comes Openly, A Revival Here, A Blessing There.

If We Rely On The Holy Spirit, We Shall Find That Our Prayers Become More And More Inarticulate; And When They Are Inarticulate, Reverence Grows Deeper And Deeper.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than We Can Understand.

When God Gives Us A Vision, We Must Transact Business With Him At That Point, No Matter What The Cost.

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.

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

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...watch Where God Puts You Into Darkness, And When You Are There Keep Your Mouth Shut. Are You In The Dark Just Now In Your Circumstances, Or In Your Life With God? Then Remain Quiet...when You Are In The Dark, Listen, And God Will Give You A Very Precious Message For Someone Else When You Get Into The Light.

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.

We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

God's Training Ground, Where The Missionary Weapons Are Found, Is The Hidden, Personal, Worshiping Life Of The Saint.

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

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

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