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When We Pray "in The Name Of Jesus" The Answers Are In Accordance With His Nature, And If We Think Our Prayers Are Unanswered It Is Because We Are Not Interpreting The Answer Along This Line.

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When We Pray "in The Name Of Jesus" The Answers Are In Accordance With His Nature, And If We Think Our Prayers Are Unanswered It Is Because We Are Not Interpreting The Answer Along This Line.

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In The Spiritual Domain, Criticism Is Love Turned Sour. In A Wholesome Spiritual Life There Is No Room For Criticism. The Critical Faculty Is An Intellectual One, Not A Moral One. If Criticism Becomes A Habit It Will Destroy The Moral Energy Of The Life And Paralyse Spiritual Force. The Only Person Who Can Criticise Human Beings Is The Holy Spirit.

It Is Easy To Turn Our Religious Life Into A Cathedral For Beautiful Memories, But There Are Feet To Be Washed . . .

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.

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

We Have An Idea That God Is Leading Us To A Particular End, A Desired Goal; He Is Not...what We Call The Process God Calls The End. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And His Power Now. It Is The Process, Not The End That Is Glorifying To God.

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.

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

If You Have Become Bitter And Sour, It Is Because When God Gave You A Blessing You Hoarded It. Yet If You Had Poured It Out To Him, You Would Have Been The Sweetest Person On Earth. If You Are Always Keeping Blessings To Yourself And Never Learning To Pour Out Anything “to The Lord,” Other People Will Never Have Their Vision Of God Expanded Through You.

The Measure Of The Worth Of Our Public Activity For God Is The Private Profound Communion We Have With Him.

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

You Do Not Know What You Are Going To Do,the Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......it Is This Attitude That Keeps You In Perpetual Wonder-you Do Not Know What God Is Going To Do Next.

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.

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

When I Was Born Again, I Received The Very Life Of The Risen Lord From Jesus Himself.

If You Yourself Do Not Cut The Lines That Tie You To The Dock, God Will Have To Use A Storm To Sever Them And To Send You Out To Sea. You Have To Get Out Past The Harbor Into The Great Dephts Of God, And Begin To Know Things For Yourself....beg In To Have Spiritual Discernment. Beware Of Paying Attention Or Going Back To What You Once Were, When God Wants You To Be Something That You Have Never Been.

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.

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...."

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.

Spiritual Maturity Is Not Reached By The Passing Of The Years, But By Obedience To The Will Of God.

Spiritual Maturity Is Not Reached By The Passing Of The Years, But By Obedience To The Will Of God. Some People Mature Into An Understanding Of God’s Will More Quickly Than Others Because They Obey More Readily; They More Readily Sacrifice The Life Of Nature To The Will Of God.

Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

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.

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

Some Of The Qualities Of #‎ God Must Be Merged Into Us Before Our #‎ Prayers Can Be Fit For His Acceptance.

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