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We Are Not To Preach The Doing Of Good Things; Good Deeds Are Not To Be Preached, They Are To Be Performed.

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When A Man Is At His Wits' End It Is Not A Cowardly Thing To Pray, It Is The Only Way He Can Get In Touch With Reality.

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.

Worship And Intercession Must Go Together, The One Is Impossible Without The Other. Intercession Means That We Rouse Ourselves Up To Get The Mind Of Christ About The One For Whom We Pray.

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

When The Spirit Fills Us, We Are Transformed, And By Beholding God We Become Mirrors. You Can Always Tell When Someone Has Been Beholding The Glory Of The Lord, Because Your Inner Spirit Senses That He Mirrors The Lord’s Own Character. Beware Of Anything That Would Spot Or Tarnish That Mirror In You. It Is Almost Always Something Good That Will Stain It- Something Good, But Not What Is Best.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life. And This Is How That Suffering Happens-if We Love Someone, But Do Not Love God, We Demand Total Perfection And Righteousness From That Person, And When We Do Not Get It, We Become Cruel And Vindictive; Yet We Are Demanding Of A Human Being Which He Or She Cannot Possibly Give.

The Whole Meaning Of Prayer Is That We May Know God.

To Wait Is Not To Sit With Folded Hands, But To Learn To Do What We Are Told.

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

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.

Jesus Christ Demands The Same Unrestrained, Adventurous Spirit In Those Who Have Placed Their Trust In Him That The Natural Man Exhibits. If A Person Is Ever Going To Do Anything Worthwhile, There Will Be Times When He Must Risk Everything By His Leap In The Dark.

We Tend To Use Prayer As A Last Resort, But God Wants It To Be Our First Line Of Defense.

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.

The People Who Influence Us Most Are Not Those Who Buttonhole Us And Talk To Us, But Those Who Live Their Lives Like The Stars In Heaven And The Lilies In The Field, Perfectly Simply And Unaffectedly. Those Are The Lives That Mould

We Have No Right To Judge Where We Should Be Put, Or To Have Preconceived Notions As To What God Is Fitting Us For. God Engineers Everything; Wherever He Puts Us, Our One Great Aim Is To Pour Out A Whole-hearted Devotion To Him In That Particular Work. 'whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth To Do, Do It With Thy Might.'

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

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

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

One Of The Greatest Snares Is The Number Of Good Things We Might Do. Jesus Christ Never Did The Good Things He Might Have Done, He Did Everything He Ought To Do Because He Had His Eye Fixed On His Father's Will And He Sacrificed Himself For His Father.

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.

If In Preaching The Gospel You Substitute Your Knowledge Of The Way Of Salvation For Confidence In The Power Of The Gospel, You Hinder People From Getting To Reality.

Preaching The Gospel

Let The Attitude Of Your Life Be A Continual Willingness To "go Out" In Dependence Upon God, And Your Life Will Have A Sacred And Inexpressible Charm About It That Is Very Satisfying To Jesus. You Must Learn To "go Out" Through Your Convictions, Creeds, Or Experiences Until You Come To The Point In Your Faith Where There Is Nothing Between Yourself And God.

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

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

To Identify With The Death Of Jesus Christ Means That We Must Die To Everything That Was Never A Part Of Him.

Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

The Whole Idea Of The Prayers Of The Saints Is That God's Holiness, God's Purpose, God's Ways May Be Brought About Irrespective Of Who Comes Or Goes.

The Central Point Of The Kingdom Of Jesus Christ Is A Personal Relationship With Him, Not Public Usefulness To Others.

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

We Actually Slander And Dishonor God By Our Very Eagerness To Serve Him Without Knowing Him.

If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Seemingly Random Circumstances Of Life, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God.

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.

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What The World Needs Is Not 'a Little Bit Of Love', But A Surgical Operation.

Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God. The Energy And The Power Which Was So Very Evident In Jesus Will Be Exhibited In Us By An Act Of The Absolute Sovereign Grace Of God, Once We Have Made That Complete And Effective Decision About Sin. We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly, But Surely, The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us, Penetrating Every Part.

Our Lord Did Not Say It Was Wrong To Pray In The Corners Of The Street, But He Did Say It Was Wrong To Have The Motive To "be Seen Of Men".

Begin To Know Him Now, And Finish Never

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.'

He Must Deny His Right To Himself, And He Must Realize Who Jesus Christ Is Before He Will Bring Himself To Do It. Beware Of Refusing To Go To The Funeral Of Your Own Independence

If You Are Going On With God, The Only Thing That Is Clear To You, And The Only Thing God Intends To Be Clear, Is The Way He Deals With Your Own Soul.

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

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.

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.

Spiritual Lust--'i Must Have It At Once'--causes Me To Demand An Answer From God, Instead Of Seeking God Himself Who Gives The Answer. Is Today 'the Third Day' And He Has Still Not Done What I Expected? Whenever We Insist That God Should Give Us An Answer To Prayer We Are Off Track. The Purpose Of Prayer Is That We Get A Hold Of God, Not Of The Answer.

And It Is Not Repentance That Saves Me — Repentance Is Only The Sign That I Realize What God Has Done Through Christ Jesus.

If Our Hopes Are Being Disappointed Just Now, It Means They Are Being Purified.

Being Disappointed

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.

Self Pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It, I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

If We Believe In Jesus, It Is Not What We Gain But What He Pours Through Us That Really Counts. God’s Purpose Is Not Simply To Make Us Beautiful, Plump Grapes, But To Make Us Grapes So That He May Squeeze The Sweetness Out Of Us.

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.

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

Jesus Christ Carries On Intercession For Us In Heaven; The Holy Ghost Carries On Intercession In Us On Earth; And We The Saints Have To Carry On Intercession For All Men.

We Hear It Said That A Man Will Suffer In His Life Is He Does Not Pray; I Question It. What Will Suffer Is The Life Of The Son Of God Within Him, Which Is Nourished Not By Food But By Prayer...prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished.

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

When God Gets Us Alone Through Suffering, Heartbreak, Temptation, Disappointment, Sickness, Or By Thwarted Friendship - When He Gets Us Absolutely Alone, And We Are Totally Speechless, Unable To Ask Even One Question, Then He Begins To Teach Us.

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.

Never Focus Your Eyes On The Obstacle Or The Difficulty. The Obstacle Will Be A Matter Of Total Indifference To The River That Will Flow Steadily Through You If You Will Simply Remember To Stay Focused On The Source.

If You Want To Be Of Use To God, Maintain The Proper Relationship With Jesus Christ By Staying Focused On Him & He Will Make Use Of You Every Minute You Live- Yet You Will Be Unaware, On The Conscious Level Of Your Life, That You Are Being Used Of Him.

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

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

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

The Best Measure Of A Spiritual Life Is Not Its Ecstasies But Its Obedience.

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

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

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.

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 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.

God Does Not Give Us Overcoming Life; He Gives Us Life As We Overcome.

Worship God In The Difficult Circumstances, And When He Chooses, He Will Alter Them In Two Seconds.

One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God 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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Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God.

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.'

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.

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.

We Are Not Made For The Mountains, For Sunrises, Or For The Other Beautiful Attractions In Life - Those Are Simply Intended To Be Moments Of Inspiration. We Are Made For The Valley And The Ordinary Things Of Life And That Is Where We Have To Prove Our Stamina And Strength.

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

The Call Of God Is Not A Reflection Of My Nature; My Personal Desires And Temperament Are Of No Consideration. As Long As I Dwell On My Own Qualities And Traits And Think About What I Am Suited For, I Will Never Hear The Call Of God.

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

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

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.

Christianity Is Not Devotion To Work, Or To A Cause, Or A Doctrine, But Devotion To A Person, The Lord Jesus Christ.

To Be Obsessed By God Is To Have An Effective Barricade Against All The Assaults Of The Enemy.

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.

Intercession Means Raising Ourselves Up To The Point Of Getting The Mind Of Christ Regarding The Person For Whom We Are Praying.

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

When You Have Learned To Walk In The Light Of The Lord, Bitterness And Contention Are Impossible.

Obedience To The Call Of Christ Nearly Always Costs Everything To Two People- The One Who Is Called, And The One Who Loves That One.

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.

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, And Either Sin Or God Must Die In My Life.

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.

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.

It Is Perilously Easy To Have Amazing Sympathy With God's Truth And Remain In Sin.

The Saint Is Hilarious When He Is Crushed With Difficulties Because The Thing Is So Ludicrously Impossible To Anyone But God.

We Read Some Things In The Bible Three Hundred And Sixty-five Times And They Mean Nothing To Us, Then All Of A Sudden We See What God Means, Because In Some Particular We Have Obeyed God, And Instantly His Nature Is Opened Up.

The Passion Of Christianity Comes From Deliberately Signing Away My Own Rights And Becoming A Bondservant Of Jesus Christ. Until I Do That, I Will Not Begin To Be A Saint.

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.

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

The Busyness Of Things Obscures Our Concentration On God ... Never Let A Hurried Lifestyle Disturb The Relationship Of Abiding In Him. This Is An Easy Thing To Allow, But We Must Guard Against It.

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

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.

Satan Does Not Tempt Us Just To Make Us Do Wrong Things- He Tempts Us To Make Us Lose What God Has Put Into Us Through Regeneration, Namely, The Possibility Of Being Of Value To God.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I Have No Right To Say I Believe In God Unless I Order My Life As Under His All-seeing Eye.

The Disciple Is Rich Not In Possessions, But In Personal Identity.

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.

God Has Frequently To Knock The Bottom Board Out Of Your Experience If You Are A Saint In Order To Get You Into Contact With Himself. God Wants You To Understand This Is A Life Of Faith, Not A Life Of Sentimental Enjoyment Of His Blessings. ... "though He Slay Me Yet Will I Trust Him" - This Is The Most Sublime Utterance Of Faith In The Whole Of The Bible.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Our Work Begins Where God's Grace Has Laid The Foundation; We Are Not To Save Souls, But To Disciple Them.

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

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.

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.

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

A Man Ceases To Be An Honest Doubter The Moment He Refuses One Way Of Getting At The Truth Because He Does Not Like That Way.

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

Don't Read To Remember; Read To Realize.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Narrow All Your Interests Until The Attitude Of Mind And Heart And Body Is Concentration On Jesus Christ.

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.'

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

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

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.

Worship Is Giving God The Best That He Has Given You. Be Careful What You Do With The Best You Have, Whenever You Get A Blessing From God, Give It Back To Him As A Love Gift. Take Time To Meditate Before God And Offer The Blessing Back To Him In A Deliberate Act Of Worship.

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.

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

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

Discipleship Is Based Solely On Devotion To Jesus Christ, Not On Following After A Particular Belief Or Doctrine.

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.

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

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

Have You Ever Realized That You Can Give Things To God That Are Of Value To Him? Or Are You Just Sitting Around Daydreaming About The Greatness Of His Redemption, While Neglecting All The Things You Could Be Doing For Him? I'm Not Referring To Works Which Could Be Regarded As Divine And Miraculous, But Ordinary, Simple Human Things - Things Which Would Be Evidence To God That You Are Totally Surrendered To Him.

When We Are Consciously Aware Of Being Used As Broken Bread And Poured Out Wine, We Have Yet Another Level To Reach - A Level Where All Awareness Of Ourselves And What God Is Doing Through Us Is Completely Eliminated. A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint - A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

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.

Grace Is The Overflowing Favor Of God, And You Can Always Count On It Being Available To Draw Upon As Needed.

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.

Too Often We Treat Prayer As The Preparation For The Work Of The Church. Do You Not See? Prayer Is The Work Of The Church.

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.

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

The Aim Of The Missionary Is To Do God's Will, Not To Be Useful, Not To Win The Heathan; He Is Useful And Does Win The Heathen, But That Is Not His Aim. His Aim Is To Do The Will Of His Lord.

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

Your Priorities Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third, Until Your Life Is Continually Face To Face With God.

The Only Way We Can Be Of Use To God Is To Let Him Take Us Through The Crooks And Crannies Of Our Own Characters.

The Way To Grow Strong In Christ Is To Become Weak In Yourself.

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

When You Meet A Man Or Woman Who Puts Jesus Christ First, Knit That One To Your Soul.

In The Will Of God" Is Not A Matter Of Intellectual Discernment, But A State Of Heart... It's Motto Is --" My Father Can Do What He Likes With Me, He May Bless Me To Death, Or Give Me A Bitter Cup; I Delight To Do His Will.

Do I Believe That God Can Change Bitter Circumstances Into Sweet Blessing? Am I Willing To Let Him?

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 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.

Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

Be Relentless And Hard On Yourself If You Are In The Habit Of Talking About The Experiences You Have Had. Faith Based On Experience Is Not Faith; Faith Based On God’s Revealed Truth Is The Only Faith There Is.

No Enthusiasm Will Ever Stand The Strain That Jesus Christ Will Put Upon His Worker, Only One Thing Will, And That Is A Personal Relationship To Himself Which Has Gone Through The Mill Of His Spring-cleaning Until There Is Only One Purpose Left--i Am Here For God To Send Me Where He Will.

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

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.

We Must Build Our Faith Not On Fading Lights But On The Light That Never Fails. When 'important' Individuals Go Away We Are Sad, Until We See That They Are Meant To Go, So That Only One Thing Is Left For Us To Do--to Look Into The Face Of God For Ourselves.

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

Faith By Its Very Nature Must Be Tried, And The Real Trial Of Faith Is Not That We Find It Difficult To Trust God, But That God's Character Has To Be Cleared In Our Own Minds. Faith In Its Actual Working Out Has To Go Through Spells Of Unsyllabled Isolation. Never Confound The Trial Of Faith With The Ordinary Discipline Of Life. Much That We Call The Trial Of Faith Is The Inevitable Result Of Being Alive.

I Have Never Met The Man I Could Despair Of After Discerning What Lies In Me Apart From The Grace Of God.

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.

Our Yesterdays Present Irreparable Things To Us; It Is True That We Have Lost Opportunities Which Will Never Return, But God Can Transform This Destructive Anxiety Into A Constructive Thoughtfulness For The Future. Let The Past Sleep, But Let It Sleep On The Bosom Of Christ. Leave The Irreparable Past In His Hands, And Step Out Into The Irresistible Future With Him.

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.

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.

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.

Be Exhausted For God, But Remember That Your Supply Comes From Him. 'all My Fresh Springs Shall Be In Thee.'

Drudgery Is One Of The Finest Touchstones Of Character There Is. Drudgery Is Work That Is Very Far Removed From Anything To Do With The Ideal - The Utterly Mean Grubby Things; And When We Come In Contact With Them We Know Instantly Whether Or Not We Are Spiritually Real.

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.

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

Having The Reality Of God's Presence Is Not Dependent On Our Being In A Particular Circumstance Or Place, But Is Only Dependent On Our Determination To Keep The Lord Before Us Continually.

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.

The Test Of The Life Of A Saint Is Not Success, But Faithfulness In Human Life As It Actually Is. We Will Set Up Success In Christian Work As The Aim; The Aim Is To Manifest The Glory Of God In Human Life, To Live The Life Hid With Christ In God In Human Conditions. Our Human Relationships Are The Actual Conditions In Which The Ideal Life Of God Is To Be Exhibited.

The Characteristic Of A Disciple Is Not That He Does Good Things, But That He Is Good In His Motives, Having Been Made Good By The Supernatural Grace Of God.

When We Lose Sight Of God We Become Hard And Dogmatic. We Hurl Our Own Petitions At God's Throne And Dictate To Him As To What We Wish Him To Do. We Do Not Worship God, Nor Do We Seek To Form The Mind Of Christ. If We Are Hard Towards God, We Will Become Hard Towards Other People.

Love For The Lord Is Not An Ethereal, Intellectual, Dreamlike Thing; It Is The Intensest, Most Vital, Most Passionate Love Of Which The Human Heart Is Capable.

Get Into The Habit Of Dealing With God About Everything. Unless In The First Waking Moment Of The Day You Learn To Fling The Door Wide Back And Let God In, You Will Work On A Wrong Level All Day; But Swing The Door Wide Open And Pray To Your Father In Secret, And Every Public Thing Will Be Stamped With The Presence Of God.

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

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

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

The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.

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.

You Must Learn To Wrestle Against The Things That Hinder Your Communication With God.

Communication With God

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.

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

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

Remember Whose You Are And Whom You Serve.

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

The Key To The Missionary's Work Is The Authority Of Jesus Christ, Not The Needs Of The Lost. We Are Inclined To Look On Our Lord As One Who Assists Us In Our Endeavors For God. Yet Our Lord Places Himself As The Absolute Sovereign And Supreme Lord Over His Disciples. He Does Not Say That The Lost Will Never Be Saved If We Don't Go- He Simply Says, "go Therefore And Make Disciples Of All The Nations...."

Let God Fling You Out (as Seed), And Do Not Go Until He Does. If You Select Your Own Spot, You Will Prove An Empty Pod. If God Sows You, You Will Bring Forth Fruit.

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.

Joy Is The Great Note All Through The Bible. We Have The Notion Of Joy That Arises From Good Spirits Or Good Health, But The Miracle Of Joy Of God Has Nothing To Do With A Man's Life Or His Circumstances Or The Condition He Is In. Jesus Christ Does Not Come To A Man And Say, 'cheer Up.' He Plants Within A Man The Miracle Of The Joy Of God's Own Nature.

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