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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.

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When The Spirit Fills

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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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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

Prayer Is Not An Exercise, It Is The Life.

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Once We See Jesus, The Impossible Things He Does In Our Lives Become As Natural As Breathing.

Impossible Things

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

Never Run Away With The Idea That It Doesn't Matter Much What We Believe Or Think; It Does. What We Believe And Think, We Are; Not What We Say We Believe And Think, But What We Really Do Believe And Think, We Are; There Is No Divorce At All.

When We Say "thy Will Be Done," Do We Say It With A Sigh? If So, We Have Never Realized That The Character Of God Is Holy Love; Nothing Can Ever Happen Outside His Purposeful Will.

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.

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

A Ready Person Never Needs To Get Ready.

See That You Do Not Use The Trick Of Prayer To Cover Up What You Know You Ought To Do.

I Cannot Give Up My Will - I Must Exercise It, Putting It Into Action.

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Perseverance Is More Than Endurance." It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen. Perseverance Means More Than Just Hanging On, Which May Only Be Exposing Our Fear Of Letting Go And Falling. Perseverance Is Our Supreme Effort Of Refusing To Believe That Our Hero Is Going To Be Conquered.

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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.

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

We All Know People Who Have Been Made Much Meaner And More Irritable And More Intolerable To Live With By Suffering: It Is Not Right To Say That All Suffering Perfects. It Only Perfects One Type Of Person ...... The One Who Accepts The Call Of God In Christ Jesus.

We Lean To Our Own Understanding, Or We Bank On Service And Do Away With Prayer, And Consequently By Succeeding In The External We Fail In The Eternal, Because In The Eternal We Succeed Only By Prevailing Prayer.

Keep Your Life In Its Constant Contact With God That His Surprising Power May Break Out On The Right Hand And On The Left. Always Be In A State Of Expectancy, And See That You Leave Room For God To Come In As He Likes.

Ask God For What You Want, But You Cannot Ask If You Are Not Asking For A Right Thing. When You Draw Near To God, You Cease From Asking For Things."your Father Knows What Things You Have Need Of, Before You Ask Him." Then, Why Ask? That You May Get To Know Him.

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

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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 I See Jesus Christ I Simply Want To Be What He Wants Me To Be.

We Pray When There's Nothing Else We Can Do; Jesus Wants Us To Pray Before We Do Anything At All.

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

Being Disappointed

It Is Inbred In Us That We Have To Do Exceptional Things For God: But We Have Not. We Have To Be Exceptional In The Ordinary Things, To Be Holy In Mean Streets, Among Mean People, And This Is Not Learned In Five Minutes

We Can All See God In Exceptional Things, But It Requires The Culture Of Spiritual Discipline To See God In Every Detail.

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

Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence (from God) Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than One Can Understand. It Will Be A Wonderful Moment For Some Of Us When We Stand Before God And Find That The Prayers We Clamored For In Early Days And Imagined Were Never Answered, Have Been Answered In The Most Amazing Way, And That God's Silence Has Been The Sign Of The Answer.

A Hypocrite Is One Who Plays Two Parts Consciously For His Own Ends. When We Find Fault With Other People We May Be Quite Sincere, And Yet Jesus Says In Reality We Are Frauds.

Keep Your Life So Constantly In Touch With God That His Surprising Power Can Break Through At Any Point.

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

Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not.

Do Not Expect God Always To Give You His Thrilling Minutes, But Learn To Live In The Domain Of Drudgery By The Power Of God.

We Can Never Be Like Lillies In The Garden Unless We Have Spent Time As Bulbs In The Dark, Totally Ignored.

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

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.

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