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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.'

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We Have No Right

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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.'

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Naturally, We Are Inclined To Be So Mathematical And Calculating That We Look Upon Uncertainty As A Bad Thing...certainty Is The Mark Of The Common-sense Life. To Be Certain Of God Means That We Are Uncertain In All Our Ways, We Do Not Know What A Day May Bring Forth. This Is Generally Said With A Sigh Of Sadness; It Should Rather Be An Expression Of Breathless Expectation.

When We Become Advocates Of A Creed, Something Dies; We Do Not Believe God, We Only Believe Our Belief About Him.

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Our Lord Never Referred To Unanswered Prayer. He Taught That Prayers Are Always Answered: “everyone Who Asks Receives”. And He Implied That Prayers Are Answered Rightly Because Of The Heavenly Father's Wisdom: “your Father Knows The Things You Have Need Of Before You Ask Him”.

It Is A Trap To Presume That God Wants To Make Us Perfect Specimens Of What He Can Do— God’s Purpose Is To Make Us One With Himself.

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When The Truth Is Preached, The Spirit Of God Brings Each Person Face To Face With God Himself.

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.

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We Have To Recognize That Sin Is A Fact, Not A Defect; Sin Is Red-handed Mutiny Against God. Either God Or Sin Must Die In My Life...if Sin Rules In Me, God's Life In Me Will Be Killed; If God Rules In Me, Sin In Me Will Be Killed.

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Wherever There Is Any Element Of Pride Or Of Conceit, Jesus Cannot Expound A Thing. He Will Take Us Through The Disappointment Of A Wounded Pride Of Intellect, Through Disappointment Of Heart. He Will Reveal Inordinate Affections-thin Gs Over Which We Never Thought He Would Have To Get Us Alone.

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Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

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For Understanding In Spiritual Matters, The Golden Rule Is Not Intellect But Obedience.

No Power On Earth Or In Hell Can Conquer The Spirit Of God In A Human Spirit

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

Keep Your Soul Fit To Manifest The Life Of The Son Of God. Never Live On Memories; Let The Word Of God Be Always Living And Active In You.

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

Anything That Belittles Or Obliterates The Holiness Of God By A False View Of The Love Of God, Is Untrue To The Revelation Of God Given By Jesus Christ.

God Never Estimates What We Give From Impulse. We Are Given Credit For What We Determine In Our Hearts To Give; For The Giving That Is Governed By A Fixed Determination. The Spirit Of God Revolutionises Our Philanthropic Instincts. Much Of Our Philanthropy Is Simply The Impulse To Save Ourselves An Uncomfortable Feeling. The Spirit Of God Alters All That. As Saints Our Attitude Towards Giving Is That We Give For Jesus Christ's Sake, And From No Other Motive.

If For One Whole Day, Quietly And Determinedly, We Were To Give Ourselves Up To The Ownership Of Jesus And To Obeying His Orders, We Should Be Amazed At Its Close To Realize All He Had Packed Into That One Day.

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.

One Of The Greatest Strains In Life Is The Strain Of Waiting For God.

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.

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

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

Every Man Is Made To Reach Out Beyond His Grasp.

Sanctification Means Being Made One With Jesus So That The Disposition That Ruled Him Will Rule Us. It Will Cost Everything That Is Not Of God In Us.

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.

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