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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.

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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.

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If We Are Abandoned To Jesus We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.

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

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'i Have Chosen You!' Keep That Note Of Greatness In Your Creed. It Is Not That You Have Got God But That He Has Got You.

Prayer Is Often A Temptation To Bank On A Miracle Of God Instead Of On A Moral Issue, I.e., It Is Much Easier To Ask God To Do My Work Than It Is To Do It Myself. Until We Are Disciplined Properly, We Will Always Be Inclined To Bank On God's Miracles And Refuse To Do The Moral Thing Ourselves. It Is Our Job, And It Will Never Be Done Unless We Do It.

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

We Look For Visions Of Heaven And We Never Dream That All The Time God Is In The Commonplace Things And People Around Us.

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

Faith Is Unutterable Trust In God, Trust Which Never Dreams That He Will Not Stand By Us.

The Great Thing About Faith In God Is That It Keeps A Man Undisturbed In The Midst Of Disturbance.

Confidence In The Natural World Is Self-reliance; In The Spiritual World, It Is God-reliance.

Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God.

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.

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

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

Our Lord’s Teaching Is Always Anti-self-realization. His Purpose Is Not The Development Of A Man; His Purpose Is To Make A Man Exactly Like Himself, And The Characteristic Of The Son Of God Is Self-expenditure.

Living A Life Of Faith Means Never Knowing Where You Are Being Led - But It Does Mean Loving And Knowing The One Who Is Leading. It Is Literally A Life Of Faith, Not Of Understanding And Reason- - A Life Of Knowing Him Who Calls Us To Go.

Holiness, Not Happiness, Is The Chief End Of Man.

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

If My Ruling Disposition Is Self-interest, I Perceive That Everything That Happens To Me Is Always For Or Against My Self-interest; If, On The Other Hand, My Ruling Disposition Is Obedience To God, I Perceive Him To Be At Work For My Perfecting In Everything That Happens To Me.

It Is A Joy To Jesus When A Person Takes Time To Walk More Intimately With Him. The Bearing Of Fruit Is Always Shown In Scripture To Be A Visible Result Of An Intimate Relationship With Jesus Christ.

Intimate Relationships

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 More You Fulfill Yourself, The Less You Will Seek God.

Never Take Your Obedience As The Reason God Blesses You; Obedience Is The Outcome Of Being Rightly Related To God.

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.

It Is Easier To Serve God Without A Vision, Easier To Work For God Without A Call, Because Then You Are Not Bothered By What God Requires; Common Sense Is Your Guide, Veneered Over With Christian Sentiment. You Will Be More Prosperous And Successful, More Leisure-hearted, If You Never Realize The Call Of God.

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

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.

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

Our Work Is Not To Save Souls, But To Disciple Them. Salvation And Sanctification Are The Work Of God's Sovereign Grace, And Our Work As His Disciples Is To Disciple Others' Lives Until They Are Totally Yielded To God. One Life Totally Devoted To God Is Of More Value To Him Than One Hundred Lives Which Have Been Simply Awakened By His Spirit. As Workers For God, We Must Reproduce Our Own Kind Spiritually, And Those Lives Will Be God's Testimony To Us As His Workers. God Brings Us Up To A Standard Of Life Through His Grace, And We Are Responsible For Reproducing That Same Standard In Others.

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

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God. That Is Why There Are So Few Fellow Workers With God And So Many Workers For Him. We Would Far Rather Work For God Than Believe In Him.

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

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.

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Our True Character Comes Out In The Way We Pray.

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Our Lord Never Lays Down The Conditions Of Discipleship As The Conditions Of Salvation.

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I Have To Get To The Point Of The Absolute And Unquestionable Relationship That Takes Everything Exactly As It Comes From Him. God Never Guides Us At Some Time In The Future, But Always Here And Now. Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.

There Is Nothing Attractive About The Gospel To The Natural Man; The Only Man Who Finds The Gospel Attractive Is The Man Who Is Convicted Of Sin.

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.

Never Look For Justice In This World, Never Cease To Give It.

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.

Adam Was Created To Be The Friend And Companion Of God, He Was To Have Dominion Over All The Life In The Air And Earth And Sea, But One Thing He Was Not To Have Dominion Over, And That Was Himself.

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

The Emphasis To-day Is Being Put On The Fact That We Have To Save Men; We Have Not. We Have To Exalt The Saviour Who Saves Men, And Then Make Disciples In His Name.

God Judges Us On The Basis Of The Miraculous Atonement By The Cross Of Christ.

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.

Don't Forget To Pray Today Because God Did Not Forget To Wake You Up This Morning.

Complete Weakness And Dependence Will Always Be The Occasion For The Spirit Of God To Manifest His Power.

If The Spirit Of God Detects Anything In You That Is Wrong, He Doesn't Ask You To Make It Right; He Only Asks You To Accept The Light Of Truth, And Then He Will Make It Right. A Child Of The Light Will Confess Sin Instantly And Stand Completely Open Before God. But A Child Of The Darkness Will Say, “oh, I Can Explain That.

We Must Never Put Our Dreams Of Success As God's Purpose For Us; His Purpose May Be Exactly The Opposite. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And In His Power Now. His End Is The Process. It Is The Process, Not The End, Which Is Glorifying To God....his Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The 'afterwards' Of Obedience. If We Have A Further End In View, We Do Not Pay Sufficient Attention To The Immediate Present; If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment As It Comes Is Precious.

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.

Is He Going To Help Himself To Your Life, Or Are You Taken Up With Your Conception Of What You Are Going To Do? God Is Responsible For Our Lives, And The One Great Keynote Is Reckless Reliance Upon Him.

All That Our Lord Heeds In A Man's Life Is The Relationship Of Worth To His Father.

Live In A Constant State Of Expectancy, And Leave Room For God To Come In As He Decides.

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?

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

The Remarkable Thing About God Is That When You Fear God, You Fear Nothing Else, Whereas If You Do Not Fear God, You Fear Everything Else.

If There Is A God

My Worth To God Publicly Is Measured By What I Really Am In My Private Life.

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."

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

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

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

All Our Fret And Worry Is Caused By Calculating Without God.

Why Shouldn’t We Experience Heartbreak? Through Those Doorways God Is Opening Up Ways Of Fellowship With His Son. Most Of Us Collapse At The First Grip Of Pain. We Sit Down At The Door Of God’s Purpose And Enter A Slow Death Through Self-pity. And All The So-called Christian Sympathy Of Others Helps Us To Our Deathbed. But God Will Not. He Comes With The Grip Of The Pierced Hand Of His Son, As If To Say, “enter Into Fellowship With Me; Arise And Shine.” If God Can Accomplish His Purposes In This World Through A Broken Heart, Then Why Not Thank Him For Breaking Yours?

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.

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