Background Image

...

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.

-Oswald Chambers

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

To Be A Holy

Oswald Chambers

...

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.

Views: 7

Topic

More From Oswald Chambers

God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience.

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.

The Expression Of Christian Character Is Not Good Doing, But God-likeness. If The Spirit Of God Has Transformed You Within, You Will Exhibit Divine Characteristics In Your Life, Not Good Human Characteristics . God's Life In Us Expresses Itself As God's Life, Not As Human Life Trying To Be Godly.

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

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.

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.

If I Am Going To Know Who Jesus Is, I Must Obey Him. The Majority Of Us Don't Know Jesus Because We Have Not The Remotest Intention Of Obeying Him.

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

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

The Dearest Friend On Earth Is A Mere Shadow Compared With Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son

We Have Become So Self-centered That We Go To God Only For Something From Him, And Not For God Himself.

Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

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

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.

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.

Death Is God's Delightful Way Of Giving Us Life.

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

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.

Reflected Peace Is The Proof That You Are Right With God Because You Are At Liberty To Turn Your Mind To Him.

Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

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?

Watch Human Nature; We Are So Built That If We Do Not Get Thrilled In The Right Way, We Will Get Thrilled In The Wrong. If We Are Without The Thrill Of Communion With God, We Will Try To Get Thrilled By The Devil, Or By Some Concoction Of Human Ingenuity.

I Must Learn That The Purpose Of My Life Belongs To God, Not Me. God Is Using Me From His Great Personal Perspective, And All He Asks Of Me Is That I Trust Him. ... When I Stop Telling God What I Want, He Can Freely Work His Will In Me Without Any Hindrance. ... Self-pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

The Nature Of The Spiritual Life Is That We Are Certain In Our Uncertainty.

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.

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.

The Moral Miracle Of Redemption Is That God Can Put A New Nature Into Me Through Which I Can Live A Totally New Life.

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.

When Jesus Christ Shed His Blood On The Cross, It Was Not The Blood Of A Martyr; Or The Blood Of One Man For Another; It Was The Life Of God Poured Out To Redeem The World.

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.

Prayer Imparts The Power To Walk And Not Faint.

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.

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

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

Patience Is More Than Endurance. A Saint's Life Is In The Hands Of God Like A Bow And Arrow In The Hands Of An Archer. God Is Aiming At Something The Saint Cannot See, And He Stretches And Strains, And Every Now And Again The Saint Says--'i Cannot Stand Anymore.' God Does Not Heed, He Goes On Stretching Till His Purpose Is In Sight, Then He Lets Fly. Trust Yourself In God's Hands. Maintain Your Relationship To Jesus Christ By The Patience Of Faith. 'though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust In Him.

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.”

You Can Never Argue Anyone Into The Kingdom Of Heaven, You Cannot Argue Anyone Anywhere. The Only Result Of Arguing Is To Prove To Your Own Mind That You Are Right And The Other Fellow Wrong. You Cannot Argue For Truth; But Immediately Incarnate Truth Is Presented, A Want Awakens In The Soul Which Only God Can Meet.

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

To Terrorize A Man Into Believing In God Is Never The Work Of God, But The Work Of Human Expediency. If We Want To Convince A Congregation Of A Certain Thing, We May Use Terror To Frighten Them Into It; But Never Say That Is God's Way, It Is Our Way. To Call That God's Method Is A Travesty To The Character Of God.

Beware Of Anything That Competes With Your Loyalty To Jesus Christ.

Beware Of Making A Fetish Of Consistency To Your Convictions Instead Of Being Devoted To God.

There Is No Joy In The Soul That Has Forgotten What God Prizes.

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

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

Trust God, And Do The Next Thing.

The Cross Did Not Happen To Jesus: He Came On Purpose For It. He Is “the Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World.

It Is In The Middle That Human Choices Are Made; The Beginning And The End Remain With God. The Decrees Of God Are Birth And Death, And In Between Those Limits Man Makes His Own Distress Or Joy.

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

The Inattentive, Slovenly Way We Drift Into The Presence Of God Is An Indication That We Are Not Bothering To Think About Him. Whenever Our Lord Spoke Of Prayer, He Said, "ask." It Is Impossible To Ask If You Do Not Concentrate.

The Prayer Of The Feeblest Saint Who Lives In The Spirit And Keeps Right With God Is A Terror To Satan. The Very Powers Of Darkness Are Paralyzed By Prayer; No Spiritualistic Seance Can Succeed In The Presence Of A Humble Praying Saint. No Wonder Satan Tries To Keep Our Minds Fussy In Active Work Till We Cannot Think In Prayer.

Get Alone With Jesus And Either Tell Him That You Do Not Want Sin To Die Out In You - Or Else Tell Him That At All Costs You Want To Be Identified With His Death.

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

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

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.

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

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

Today Jesus Christ Is Being Dispatched As The Figurehead Of A Religion, A Mere Example. He Is That, But He Is Infinitely More; He Is Salvation Itself, He Is The Gospel Of God.

God Rarely Allows A Person To See How Great A Blessing He Is To Others.

We Pray Pious Blether, Our Will Is Not In It, And Then We Say God Does Not Answer; We Never Asked Him For Anything. Asking Means That Our Wills Are In What We Ask.

We Have The Idea That God Is Going To Do Some Exceptional Thing- That He Is Preparing And Equipping Us For Some Extraordinary Work In The Future. But As We Grow In His Grace We Find That God Is Glorifying Himself Here And Now, At This Very Moment. If We Have God’s Assurance Behind Us, The Most Amazing Strength Becomes Ours, And We Learn To Sing, Glorifying Him Even In The Ordinary Days And Ways Of Life.

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

Prayer Is An Effort Of Will.

If You Are Going To Be Used By God, He Will Take You Through A Number Of Experiences That Are Not Meant For You Personally At All. They Are Designed To Make You Useful In His Hands, And To Enable You To Understand What Takes Place In The Lives Of Others.

Jesus Christ Out-socialists The Socialists. He Says That In His Kingdom He That Is Greatest Shall Be The Servant Of All. The Real Test Of The Saint Is Not Preaching The Gospel, But Washing Disciples' Feet, That Is, Doing The Things That Do Not Count In The Actual Estimate Of Men But Count Everything In The Estimate Of God.

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

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.

Not Good Enough

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.

Begin To Know Him Now, And Finish Never

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

The Real Attitude Of Sin In The Heart Towards God Is That Of Being Without God; It Is Pride, The Worship Of Myself, That Is The Great Atheistic Fact In Human Life.

The Scrutiny We Give Other People Should Be For Ourselves.

One Great Effect Of Prayer Is That It Enables The Soul To Command The Body. By Obedience I Make My Body Submissive To My Soul, But Prayer Puts My Soul In Command Of My Body.

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

Christian Inspirational

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.

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

God’s Training Is For Now, Not Presently. His Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The Afterwards Of Obedience; We Can Get It Wrong When We Think Of The Afterwards. What Men Call Training And Preparation, God Calls The End… If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment Is Precious.

The Loadstar Of A Saint Is God Himself, Not Estimated Usefulness. It Is The Work That God Does Through Us That Count, Not What We Do For Him.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We Are Not Sent To Do Battle For God, But To Be Used By God In His Battles.

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.

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

As Soon As We Abandon Ourselves To God And Do The Task He Has Placed Closest To Us, He Begins To Fill Our Lives With Surprises.

Our Ordinary Abilities Will Never Worship God Unless They Are Transformed By The Indwelling Son Of God.

Happiness Is Not A Sign That We Are Right With God; Happiness Is A Sign Of Satisfaction, That Is All, And The Majority Of Us Can Be Satisfied On Too Low A Level.

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

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

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

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

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.

When It Is A Question Of God's Almighty Spirit, Never Say, 'i Can't.'

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

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

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

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

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.

God Can Do Nothing For Me Until I Recognize The Limits Of What Is Humanly Possible, Allowing Him To Do The Impossible.

The Greatest Competitor Of Devotion To Jesus Is Service To Him. It Is Never 'do, Do' With The Lord, But 'be, Be' And He Will 'do' Through You. The Only Way To Keep True To God Is By A Steady Persistent Refusal To Be Interested In Christian Work And To Be Interested Alone In Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

The Purpose Of Prayer Is To Reveal The Presence Of God Equally Present, All The Time, In Every Condition.

Your God May Be Your Little Christian Habit - The Habit Of Prayer Or Bible Reading At Certain Times Of Your Day. Watch How Your Father Will Upset Your Schedule If You Begin To Worship Your Habit Instead Of What The Habit Symbolizes. We Say, 'i Can't Do That Right Now; This Is My Time Alone With God.' No, This Is Your Time Alone With Your Habit.

Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, But It Loves And Knows The One Who Is Leading.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Utmost For His Highest

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.

The Touchstone Of The Holy Spirit’s Work In Us Is The Answer To Our Lord’s Question: “who Do Men Say That The Son Of Man Is?” Our Lord Makes Human Destiny Depend On That One Thing, Who Men Say He Is, Because The Revelation Of Who Jesus Is Is Only Given By The Holy Spirit.

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 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.

Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.

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

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.

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 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.

The Vision That God Gives Is Not Some Unattainable Castle In The Sky, But A Vision Of What God Wants You To Be Down Here.

Conscience Is The Internal Perception Of God's Moral Law.

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.

A Practical Help In Keeping Your Personal Purity Unblemished In Your Relations With Other People Is To Begin To See Them As God Does. Say To Yourself, “that Man Or That Woman Is Perfect In Christ Jesus! That Friend Or That Relative Is Perfect In Christ Jesus!

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

Never Allow The Thought, 'i Am Of No Use Where I Am.' You Are Certainly Of No Use Where You're Not.

Satan Tried To Put Jesus Christ On The Way To Becoming King Of The World And Savior Of Men In A Way Other Than That Predetermined By God.

People Say That It Is So Hard To Bring Jesus Christ And Present Him Before The Lives Of Men Today. Of Course It Is. It Is So Hard That It Is Impossible Except By The Power Of The Indwelling Holy Ghost.

All Heaven Is Interested In The Cross Of Christ, All Hell Terribly Afraid Of It, While Men Are The Only Beings Who More Or Less Ignore Its Meaning.

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.

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

The Greatest Word Of Jesus To His Disciples Is Abandon

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

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.

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

Get To The End Of Yourself Where You Can Do Nothing, But Where He Does Everything.

By Realizing The Reality Of Our Prince Within Us, We Are Never Bothered Again By The Fact That We Do Not Understand Ourselves, Or That Other People Do Not Understand Us. The Only One Who Truly Understands Me Is The One Who Made Me And Who Redeems Me... It Is A Tremendous Freedom To Get Rid Of Every Kind Of Self-consideration And Learn To Care About Only One Thing - The Relationship Between Our Prince And Ourselves.

Every Man Carries His Kingdom Within, And No One Knows What Is Taking Place In Another's Kingdom. 'no One Understands Me!' Of Course They Don't, Each One Of Us Is A Mystery. There Is Only One Who Understands You, And That Is God. Hand Yourself Over To Him.

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

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.

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.

If You Have Become Bitter And Sour, It Is Because When God Gave You A Blessing You Hoarded It. Yet If You Had Poured It Out To Him, You Would Have Been The Sweetest Person On Earth. If You Are Always Keeping Blessings To Yourself And Never Learning To Pour Out Anything “to The Lord,” Other People Will Never Have Their Vision Of God Expanded Through You.

When God Gives A Vision, Transact Business On That Line, No Matter What It Costs.

The Only Basis On Which To Work For God Is An Esteemed Appreciation Of His Deliverance.

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.

Whenever God Touches Sin It Is Independence That Is Touched, An That Awakens Resentment In The Human Heart. Independence Must Be Blasted Clean Out, There Must Be No Such Thing Left, Only Freedom Which Is Very Different. Freedom Is The Ability Not To Insist On My Rights, But To See That God Gets His

Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word.

Seeing Is Never Believing: We Interpret What We See In The Light Of What We Believe. Faith Is Confidence In God Before You See God Emerging, Therefore The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

Can Jesus Christ See The Agony Of His Soul In Us? He Can't Unless We Are So Closely Identified With Him That We Have His View Concerning The People For Whom We Pray. May We Learn To Intercede So Wholeheartedly That Jesus Christ Will Be Completely And Overwhelmingly Satisfied With Us As Intercessors.

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

When We See Him, We Will Wonder That We Ever Could Have Disobeyed Him.

One Of The Most Amazing Revelations Of God Comes To Us When We Learn That It Is In The Everyday Things Of Life That We Realize The Magnificent Deity Of Jesus Christ.

Everyday Things

The Men With God's 'go' In Them Have These Three Characteristics-a Saving Experience, The Evidence Of Supernatural Power At Work, And The Spiritual Efficacy Of Success In Prayer.

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

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

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

God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience. Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry.

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

It Is Easy To Turn Our Religious Life Into A Cathedral For Beautiful Memories, But There Are Feet To Be Washed . . .

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

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

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

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

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

There Have Been Prophets And Students Who Handle The Bible Like A Child's Box Of Bricks; They Explain To Us The Design And Structure And Purpose; But As Time Goes On Things Do Not Work Out In Their Way At All. They Have Mistaken The Scaffolding For The Structure, While All The Time God Is Working Out His Purpose With A Great And Undeterred Patience.

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.

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

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.

The Well Of Your Incompleteness Runs Deep, But Make The Effort To Look Away From Yourself And To Look Toward Him.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We Have All Had Times...when We Have Seen Things From God's Standpoint And Have Wanted To Stay There; But God Will Never Allow Us To Stay There. ...[i]t Is In The Valley Where We Live For The Glory Of God.

There Are Not Three Stages In Spiritual Life-worship, Waiting, And Work. Some Of Us Go In Jumps Like Spiritual Frogs. We Jump From Worship To Waiting To Work. God's Idea Is That The Three Should Go Together. They Were Always Together In The Life Of Our Lord.

Am I Becoming More And More In Love With God As A Holy God, Or With The Conception Of An Amiable Being Who Says, “oh Well, Sin Doesn’t Matter Much”?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Do We So Appreciate The Marvelous Salvation Of Jesus Christ That We Are Our Utmost For His Highest?

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.

When We Pray "in The Name Of Jesus" The Answers Are In Accordance With His Nature, And If We Think Our Prayers Are Unanswered It Is Because We Are Not Interpreting The Answer Along This Line.

Trending Author

Category