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We Think Rightly Or Wrongly About Prayer According To The Conception We Have In Our Minds Of Prayer. If We Think Of Prayer As The Breath In Our Lungs And The Blood From Our Hearts, We Think Rightly. The Blood Flows Ceaselessly, And Breathing Continues Ceaselessly; We Are Not Conscious Of It, But It Is Always Going On. We Are Not Always Conscious Of Jesus Keeping Us In Perfect Joint With God, But If We Are Obeying Him, He Always Is.

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We Think Rightly Or Wrongly About Prayer According To The Conception We Have In Our Minds Of Prayer. If We Think Of Prayer As The Breath In Our Lungs And The Blood From Our Hearts, We Think Rightly. The Blood Flows Ceaselessly, And Breathing Continues Ceaselessly; We Are Not Conscious Of It, But It Is Always Going On. We Are Not Always Conscious Of Jesus Keeping Us In Perfect Joint With God, But If We Are Obeying Him, He Always Is.

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Painful Experiences

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There Is A Vast Difference Between Devotion To A Person And Devotion To Principles Or To A Cause. Our Lord Never Proclaimed A Cause- He Proclaimed Personal Devotion To Himself. To Be A Disciple Is To Be A Devoted Bondservant Motivated By Love For The Lord Jesus.

Our Lord's Conception Of Discipleship Is Not That We Work For God, But That God Works Through Us.

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

We Must Build Our Faith Not On Fading Lights But On The Light That Never Fails.

When You Are Insulted, You Must Not Only Not Resent It, But You Must Make It An Opportunity To Exhibit The Son Of God In Your Life. And You Cannot Imitate The Nature Of Jesus-it Is Either In You Or It Is Not. A Personal Insult Becomes An Opportunity For A Saint To Reveal The Incredible Sweetness Of The Lord Jesus.

Prayer Is Not Logical, It Is A Mysterious Moral Working Of The Holy Spirit.

We Say, Sorrow, Disaster, Calamity. God Says, Chastening And It Sounds Sweet To Him Though It Is A Discord To Our Ears. Don't Faint When You Are Rebuked, And Don't Despise The Chastening Of The Lord. In Your Patience Possess Your Souls.

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

A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint- A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

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

The True Expression Of Christian Character Is Not In Good-doing But In God-likeness.

Have I Allowed My Personal Human Life To Become A 'bethlehem' For The Son Of God?

Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

Trust God, And Do The Next Thing.

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

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

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

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.

We Are Not Built For Ourselves, But For God. Not For Service For God, But For God.

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

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.

Don't Waste Time Asking God To Keep You From Doing Things. Don't Do Them.

If You Have Had No Tension In Your Life, Never Been Screwed Up By Problems, Your Mortality Well Within Your Own Grasp, And Someone Tells You That God So Loved You That He Gave His Son To Die For You, Nothing But Good Manners Will Keep You From Being Amused.

Prayer Is God's Answer To Our Poverty, Not A Power We Exercise To Obtain An Answer.

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

Prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished.

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Remember Whose You Are And Whom You Serve.

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

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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.

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.

The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is Not--do Your Duty, But--do What Is Not Your Duty. It Is Not Your Duty To Go The Second Mile, To Turn The Other Cheek, But Jesus Says If We Are His Disciples We Shall Always Do These Things. There Will Be No Spirit Of--"oh, Well, I Cannot Do Any More, I Have Been So Misrepresented And Misunderstood". . . Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Are Always Looking For Justice; The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is--never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Live It.

Am I Learning How To Use My Bible? The Way To Become Complete For The Master’s Service Is To Be Well Soaked In The Bible; Some Of Us Only Exploit Certain Passages. Our Lord Wants To Give Us Continuous Instruction Out Of His Word; Continuous Instruction Turns Hearers Into Disciples.

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

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.

If We Are In Christ The Whole Basis Of Our Goings Is God, Not Conceptions Of God, Not Ideas Of God, But God Himself. We Do Not Need Any More Ideas About God, The World Is Full Of Ideas About God, They Are All Worthless, Because The Ideas Of God In Anyone’s Head Are Of No More Use Than Our Own Ideas. What We Need Is A Real God, Not More Ideas About Him.

In Times Of Prosperity We Are Apt To Forget God; We Imagine It Does Not Matter Whether We Recognise Him Or Not. As Long As We Are Comfortably Clothed And Fed And Looked After, Our Civilisation Becomes An Elaborate Means Of Ignoring God.

We Are Uncertain Of The Next Step, But We Are Certain Of God. Immediately We Abandon To God, And Do The Duty That Lies Nearest, And He Packs Our Life With Surprises All The Time.... Leave The Whole Thing To Him, It Is Gloriously Uncertain How He Will Come In, But He Will Come.

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.

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

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.

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