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When You Pray, Things Remain The Same, But You Begin To Be Different. The Same Thing When A Man Falls In Love, His Circumstances And Conditions Remain The Same, But He Has A Sovereign Preference In His Heart For Another Person Which Transfigures Everything!

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When You Pray, Things

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When You Pray, Things Remain The Same, But You Begin To Be Different. The Same Thing When A Man Falls In Love, His Circumstances And Conditions Remain The Same, But He Has A Sovereign Preference In His Heart For Another Person Which Transfigures Everything!

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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.

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

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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.

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.

There Is Only One Way By Which I Can Get Right With God, And That Is Through The Death Of Jesus Christ. I Must Get Rid Of The Underlying Idea That I Can Ever Be Right With God Because Of My Obedience. Who Of Us Could Ever Obey God To Absolute Perfection!

The One Thing For Which We Are All Being Disciplined Is To Know That God Is Real. As Soon As God Becomes Real, Other People Become Shadows. Nothing That Other Saints Do Or Say Can Ever Perturb The One Who Is Built On God.

Repentance Always Brings A Person To The Point Of Saying, “i Have Sinned.” The Surest Sign That God Is At Work In His Life Is When He Says That And Means It. Anything Less Is Simply Sorrow For Having Made Foolish Mistakes-a Reflex Action Caused By Self-disgust.

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.

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

We Do Not Pray At All Until We Are At Our Wits' End.

Am I Becoming More And More In Love With God As A Holy God, Or With The Conception Of An Amiable Being Who Says, “oh Well, Sin Doesn’t Matter Much”?

The Proof That Our Relationship Is Right With God Is That We Do Our Best Whether We Feel Inspired Or Not.

When We Are Abandoned To God, He Works Through Us All The Time.

Trust Completely In God, And When He Brings You To A New Opportunity Of Adventure, Offering It To You, See That You Take It.

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.

The Secret Of Christian Quietness Is Not Indifference, But The Knowledge That God Is My Father, He Loves Me, And I Shall Never Think Of Anything He Will Forget. With This Knowledge, Worry Becomes An Impossibility.

Every Time We Pray Our Horizon Is Altered, Our Attitude To Things Is Altered, Not Sometimes But Every Time, And The Amazing Thing Is That We Don't Pray More.

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

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.

The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Utmost For His Highest

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.

There Have Been Prophets And Students Who Handle The Bible Like A Child's Box Of Bricks; They Explain To Us The Design And Structure And Purpose; But As Time Goes On Things Do Not Work Out In Their Way At All. They Have Mistaken The Scaffolding For The Structure, While All The Time God Is Working Out His Purpose With A Great And Undeterred Patience.

The Loadstar Of A Saint Is God Himself, Not Estimated Usefulness. It Is The Work That God Does Through Us That Count, Not What We Do For Him.

When God Gives A Vision, Transact Business On That Line, No Matter What It Costs.

We Must Get To The Place Of Real Solitude With Christ. He Is Our Mountain-height And Our Sea-calm.

It Is Not The Thing On Which We Spend The Most Time That Moulds Us, But The Thing That Exerts The Greatest Power. Five Minutes With God And His Word Is Worth More Than All The Rest Of The Day.

The Greatest Word Of Jesus To His Disciples Is Abandon

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.

The Agony Of A Man's Affliction Is Often Necessary To Put Him Into The Right Mood To Face The Fundamental Things Of Life. The Psalmist Says: "before I Was Afflicted I Went Astray, But Now Have I Kept Thy Word.

There Comes The Baffling Call Of God In Our Lives Also. The Call Of God Can Never Be Stated Explicitly; It Is Implicit. The Call Of God Is Like The Call Of The Sea, No One Hears It But The One Who Has The Nature Of The Sea In Him. It Cannot Be Stated Definitely What The Call Of God Is To, Because His Call Is To Be In Comradeship With Himself, For His Own Purposes, And The Test Is To Believe That God Knows What He Is After.

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.

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

My Worth To God In Public Is What I Am In Private.

The Holy Ghost Is The Only One Who Can Detect The Temptations Of Satan, Neither Our Common Sense Nor Our Human Wisdom Can Detect Them As Temptations.

A River Reaches Places Which Its Source Never Knows. And Jesus Said That, If We Have Received His Fullness, "rivers Of Living Water" Will Flow Out Of Us, Reaching In Blessing Even "to The End Of The Earth" Regardless Of How Small The Visible Effects Of Our Lives May Appear To Be.

It Is A Tremendous Freedom To Get Rid Of All Self-considerat Ion And Learn To Care About Only One Thing-the Relationship Between Christ And Ourselves.

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

When We See Him, We Will Wonder That We Ever Could Have Disobeyed Him.

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

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.

If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Flow Through Me To The Lives Of Others, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

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

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.

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

Sanctification Costs To The Extent Of "an Intense Narrowing Of All Our Interests On Earth And An Immense Broadening Of All Our Interests In God.

It Is Not What A Man Does That Is Of Final Importance, But What He Is In What He Does. The Atmosphere Produced By A Man, Much More Than His Activities, Has The Lasting Influence.

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

Whenever The Conviction Of God's Spirit Comes There Is The Softening Of The Whole Nature To Obey; But If The Obedience Is Not Instant There Will Come A Metallic Hardening And A Corrupting Of The Guidance Of God.

Prayer Is Not A Preparation For Work, It Is Work. Prayer Is Not A Preparation For The Battle, It Is The Battle. Prayer Is Two-fold: Definite Asking And Definite Waiting To Receive.

As Long As We Are Flippant And Stupid And Shallow And Think That We Know Ourselves, We Shall Never Give Ourselves Over To Jesus Christ; But When Once We Become Conscious That We Are Infinitely More Than We Can Fathom, And Infinitely Greater In Possibility Either For Good Or Bad Than We Can Know, We Shall Be Only Too Glad To Hand Ourselves Over To Him.

It Is Possible To Know All About Doctrine And Yet Not Know Jesus. The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus. ....have I A Personal History With Jesus Christ? The One Sign Of Discipleship Is Intimate Connection With Him, A Knowledge Of Jesus Christ Nothing Can Shake.

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.

It Is In The Middle That Human Choices Are Made; The Beginning And The End Remain With God. The Decrees Of God Are Birth And Death, And In Between Those Limits Man Makes His Own Distress Or Joy.

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

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

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

Never Water Down Or Minimise The Mighty Gospel Of God By Considering That People May Be Misled By Certain Statements. Present The Gospel In All Its Fullness And God Will Guard His Own Truth.

God's "nothings" Are His Most Positive Answers. We Have To Stay On God And Wait. Never Try To Help God To Fulfill His Word.

When A Man Says He Must Develop A Holy Life Alone With God, He Is Of No More Use To His Fellow Men: He Puts Himself On A Pedestal, Away From The Common Run Of Men.........if We Are Abandoned To Jesus, We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.

Take Yourself By The Scruff Of The Neck And Shake Off Your Incarnate Laziness.

Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God, And Either Sin Or God Must Die In My Life.

'i Have Chosen You!' Keep That Note Of Greatness In Your Creed. It Is Not That You Have Got God But That He Has Got You.

It Is Better To Run The Risk Of Being Considered Indecisive, Better To Be Uncertain And Not Promise, Than To Promise And Not Fulfill.

The Only Right A Christian Has Is The Right To Give Up His Rights.

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

We Are Apt To Think That Everything That Happens To Us Is To Be Turned Into Useful Teaching; It Is To Be Turned Into Something Better Than Teaching, Into Character. We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

The Life Of Faith Is Not A Life Of Mounting Up With Wings, But A Life Of Walking And Not Fainting.

The Vision That God Gives Is Not Some Unattainable Castle In The Sky, But A Vision Of What God Wants You To Be Down Here.

Trust God, And Do The Next Thing.

When Someone Thinks That To Develop A Holy Life He Must Always Be Alone With God, He Is No Longer Of Any Use To Others.

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

Christian Inspirational

Never Consider Whether You Are Of Use; But Ever Consider That You Are Not Your Own But His.

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.

We Have All Had Times...when We Have Seen Things From God's Standpoint And Have Wanted To Stay There; But God Will Never Allow Us To Stay There. ...[i]t Is In The Valley Where We Live For The Glory Of God.

Whenever You Get A Blessing From God, Give It Back To Him As A Love Gift.

If Your Faith Is In Experiences, Anything That Happens Is Likely To Upset That Faith.

Am I Always In Contact With Reality, Or Do I Only Pray When Things Have Gone Wrong, When There Is A Disturbance In The Moments Of My Life?

God Will Turn The Might Have Been Into A Wonderful Culture For The Future.

Never Be Hurried Out Of The Relationship Of Abiding In Him.

But God Is The God Of Our Yesterdays, And He Allows The Memory Of Them To Turn The Past Into A Ministry Of Spiritual Growth For Our Future. God Reminds Us Of The Past To Protect Us From A Very Shallow Security In The Present.

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.

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.

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.

The Spirit Of God Has The Habit Of Taking The Words Of Jesus Out Of Their Scriptural Setting And Putting Them Into The Setting Of Our Personal Lives.

We Have Become So Self-centered That We Go To God Only For Something From Him, And Not For God Himself.

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...watch Where God Puts You Into Darkness, And When You Are There Keep Your Mouth Shut. Are You In The Dark Just Now In Your Circumstances, Or In Your Life With God? Then Remain Quiet...when You Are In The Dark, Listen, And God Will Give You A Very Precious Message For Someone Else When You Get Into The Light.

A Life Of Intimacy With God Is Characterized By Joy.

Intimacy With God

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 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.

Character In A Saint Means The Disposition Of Jesus Christ Persistently Manifested.

Our Understanding Of God Is The Answer To Prayer; Getting Things From God Is God's Indulgence Of Us. When God Stops Giving Us Things, He Brings Us Into The Place Where We Can Begin To Understand Him.

Leave The Irreparable Past In His Hands, And Step Out Into The Irresistible Future With Him.

Paul Welcomed Hearbreak, Disillusionment And Tribulation For Only One Reason - - These Things Kept Him Immovable In His Devotion To The Gospel Of God.

The More You Fulfill Yourself, The Less You Will Seek God.

When The Darkness Of Dismay Comes, Endure Until It Is Over, Because Out Of It Will Come That Following Of Jesus Which Is An Unspeakable Joy.

Whenever God's Will Is In The Ascendant All Compulsion Is Gone. When We Choose Deliberately To Obey Him Then With All His Almighty Power.

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

The Characteristic Of The New Birth Is That I Yield Myself So Completely To God That Christ Is Formed In Me.

Earnestness Is Not By Any Means Everything; It Is Very Often A Subtle Form Of Pious Pride Because It Is Obsessed With The Method And Not With The Master.

When We Preach The Love Of God There Is A Danger Of Forgetting That The Bible Reveals Not First The Love Of God But The Intense, Blazing Holiness Of God, With His Love At The Center Of That Holiness.

God Did Not Direct His Call To Isaiah— Isaiah Overheard God Saying, ". . . Who Will Go For Us?" The Call Of God Is Not Just For A Select Few But For Everyone. Whether I Hear God’s Call Or Not Depends On The Condition Of My Ears, And Exactly What I Hear Depends Upon My Spiritual Attitude.

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.

It Is Easy To Say We Believe In God As Long As We Remain In The Little World We Choose To Live In; But Get Out Into The Great World Of Facts, The Noisy World Where People Are Absolutely Indifferent To You, Where Your Message Is Nothing More Than A Crazy Tale Belonging To A Bygone Age, Can You Believe God There?

Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.

We Are Not Meant To Be Seen As God's Perfect, Bright-shining Examples, But To Be Seen As The Everyday Essence Of Ordinary Life Exhibiting The Miracle Of His Grace.

I Have Learnt That I Am Me, That I Can Do The Things That, As One Might Put It, Me Can Do, But I Cannot Do The Things That Me Would Like To Do.

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

Tolerating A Wrong Attitude Toward Another Person Causes You To Follow The Spirit Of The Devil, No Matter How Saintly You Are.

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

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.

Human Nature, If Healthy, Demands Excitement; And If It Does Not Obtain Its Thrilling Excitement In The Right Way, It Will Seek It In The Wrong. God Never Makes Bloodless Stoics; He Makes No Passionless Saints.

Temptation Is A Suggested Short Cut To The Realization Of The Highest At Which I Aim - Not Towards What I Understand As Evil, But Towards What I Understand As Good.

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

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.

Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word.

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

One Of The Most Amazing Revelations Of God Comes To Us When We Learn That It Is In The Everyday Things Of Life That We Realize The Magnificent Deity Of Jesus Christ.

Everyday Things

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.

Why Shouldn’t We Experience Heartbreak? Through Those Doorways God Is Opening Up Ways Of Fellowship With His Son. Most Of Us Collapse At The First Grip Of Pain. We Sit Down At The Door Of God’s Purpose And Enter A Slow Death Through Self-pity. And All The So-called Christian Sympathy Of Others Helps Us To Our Deathbed. But God Will Not. He Comes With The Grip Of The Pierced Hand Of His Son, As If To Say, “enter Into Fellowship With Me; Arise And Shine.” If God Can Accomplish His Purposes In This World Through A Broken Heart, Then Why Not Thank Him For Breaking Yours?

God Is Not Saving The World; It Is Done. Our Business Is To Get Men And Women To Realize It.

Every Man Carries His Kingdom Within, And No One Knows What Is Taking Place In Another's Kingdom. 'no One Understands Me!' Of Course They Don't, Each One Of Us Is A Mystery. There Is Only One Who Understands You, And That Is God. Hand Yourself Over To Him.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

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.

There Are Many Things That Are Perfectly Legitimate, But If You Are Going To Concentrate On God You Cannot Do Them.

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

The Greatest Test Of Christianity Is The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life; It Is Like The Shining Of Silver: The More It Is Rubbed The Brighter It Grows.

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

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