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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.

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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.

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Utmost For His Highest

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Whenever God's Will Is In The Ascendant All Compulsion Is Gone. When We Choose Deliberately To Obey Him Then With All His Almighty Power.

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Don't Read To Remember; Read To Realize.

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

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."

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So Long As There Is A Human Being Who Does Not Know Jesus Christ, I Am His Debtor To Serve Him Until He Does.

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Christian Inspirational

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

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.

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

There Is Only One Way By Which I Can Get Right With God, And That Is Through The Death Of Jesus Christ. I Must Get Rid Of The Underlying Idea That I Can Ever Be Right With God Because Of My Obedience. Who Of Us Could Ever Obey God To Absolute Perfection!

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Isaiah Was So Attuned To God, Because Of The Great Crisis He Had Just Endured, That The Call Of God Penetrated His Soul. The Majority Of Us Cannot Hear Anything But Ourselves. And We Cannot Hear Anything God Says. But To Be Brought To The Place Where We Can Hear The Call Of God Is To Be Profoundly Changed.

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?

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.

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.

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

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 Will Suffer A Sharp Painful Disullisionment Before We Fully Surrender. When People Really See Themselves As The Lord Sees Them, It Is Not The Terribly Offensive Sins Of The Fleshthat Shock Them, But The Awful Nature Of The Pride Of Their Own Hearts Opposing Jesus Christ. When They See Themselves In The Light Of The Lord, The Shame, The Horror, And Desperate Conviction Hit Home For Them.

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

The Scrutiny We Give Other People Should Be For Ourselves.

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

Prayer Is The Answer To Every Problem There Is.

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.

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.

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

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

It Is A Life Of Faith, Not Of Intellect And Reason, But A Life Of Knowing Who Makes Us “go.

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Abandonment To God Is Of More Value Than Personal Holiness!

Faith, As The Bible Teaches It, Is Faith In God Coming Against Everything That Contradicts Him- A Faith That Says, “i Will Remain True To God’s Character Whatever He May Do.” The Highest And The Greatest Expression Of Faith In The Whole Bible Is- “though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust Him” (job 13:15).

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.

Prayer Is The Supreme Activity Of All That Is Noblest In Our Personality, And The Essential Nature Of Prayer Is Faith.

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

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

Solitude With God Repairs The Damage Done By The Fret And Noise And Clamour Of The World.

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.

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.

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

The Majority Of Us Do Not Enthrone God, We Enthrone Common Sense. We Make Our Decisions And Then Ask The Real God To Bless Our God's Decision.

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

In A Conflict Of Loyalty, Obey Jesus At All Costs.

If God Allows You To Be Stripped Of The Exterior Portions Of Your Life, He Means For You To Cultivate The Interior

Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, It Knows And Loves The One Who Is Leading. Faith Is Not Resignation To A Power We Do Not Know; Faith Is Committal To One Whose Character We Do Know Because It Has Been Revealed To Us In Jesus Christ.

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

Speak, Lord”; Make Time To Listen. Chastening Is More Than A Means Of Discipline, It Is Meant To Get Me To The Place Of Saying, “speak, Lord.”

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

To Say That 'prayer Changes Things' Is Not As Close To The Truth As Saying, 'prayer Changes Me And Then I Change Things.' God Has Established Things So That Prayer, On The Basis Of Redemption, Changes The Way A Person Looks At Things.

All Christians Have The Spirit Of Christ, But Not All Christians Have The Mind Of Christ.

We Give Credit To Human Wisdom When We Should Give Credit To The Divine Guidance Of God Being Exhibited Through Childlike People Who Were “foolish” Enough To Trust God’s Wisdom And His Supernatural Equipment.

Divine Guidance

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.

Theology Must Work Itself Out In The Most Practical Relationships.

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.

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.

Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God.

Perseverance Is More Than Endurance." It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen. Perseverance Means More Than Just Hanging On, Which May Only Be Exposing Our Fear Of Letting Go And Falling. Perseverance Is Our Supreme Effort Of Refusing To Believe That Our Hero Is Going To Be Conquered.

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

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

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.

If Your Faith Is In Experiences, Anything That Happens Is Likely To Upset That Faith.

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.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life.

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

God Saved Us To Make Us Holy, Not Happy. Some Experiences May Not Contribute To Our Happiness, But All Can Be Made To Contribute To Our Holiness. Vance Havner The Destined End Of Man Is Not Happiness, Nor Health, But Holiness. God's One Aim Is The Production Of Saints.

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

Prayer Does Not Fit Us For The Greater Work; Prayer Is The Greater Work.

The Author Who Benefits You Most Is Not The One Who Tells You Something You Did Not Know Before, But The One Who Gives Expression To The Truth That Has Been Dumbly Struggling In You For Utterance.

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.'

If We Have Never Had The Experience Of Taking Our Commonplace Religious Shoes Off Our Commonplace Religious Feet, And Getting Rid Of All The Undue Familiarity With Which We Approach God, It Is Questionable Whether We Have Ever Stood In His Presence.

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.

When God Gives You A Vision And Darkness Follows, Wait. God Will Bring The Vision He Has Given You To Reality In Your Life If You Will Wait On His Timing. Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word

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.

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

By The Supernatural Miracle Of God's Grace I Stand Justified, Not Because I Am Sorry For My Sin, Not Because I Have Repented, But Because Of What Jesus Has Done.

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.

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

It Is Impossible To Get Exhausted In Work For God. We Get Exhausted Because We Try To Do God's Work In Our Own Way.

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

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?

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

With Christ, It Is Not How Much We Give, But What We Do Not Give That Is The Real Test.

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 Harking Back To What You Once Were When God Wants You To Be Something You Have Never Been.

If A Crisis Has Come To You On Any Front, Surrender Your Will To Jesus Absolutely And Irrevocably.

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.

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.

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

Jesus Christ Can Afford To Be Misunderstood; We Cannot. Our Weakness Lies In Always Wanting To Vindicate Ourselves.

If You Will Receive Yourself In The Fires Of Sorrow, God Will Make You Nourishment For Other People.

Prayer Imparts The Power To Walk And Not Faint.

Peace Is The Deepest Thing A Human Personality Can Know; It Is Almighty

The Strain Of Life Is What Builds Our Strength. If There Is No Strain, There Will Be No Strength.

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!

When You Fear God You Fear Nothing Else!

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.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

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.

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

Never Run Away With The Idea That It Doesn't Matter Much What We Believe Or Think; It Does. What We Believe And Think, We Are; Not What We Say We Believe And Think, But What We Really Do Believe And Think, We Are; There Is No Divorce At All.

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.

The Test Is The Sixty Seconds Of Every Minute, And The Sixty Minutes Of Every Hour, Not Our Times Of Prayer And Devotional Meetings.

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