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Whenever The Insistence Is On The Point That God Answers Prayer, We Are Off The Track. The Meaning Of Prayer Is That We Get Hold Of God, Not Of The Answer.

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Whenever The Insistence Is On The Point That God Answers Prayer, We Are Off The Track. The Meaning Of Prayer Is That We Get Hold Of God, Not Of The Answer.

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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.

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

Intercession Means That We Deliberately Substitute God’s Interests In Others For Our Natural Sympathy With Them.

One Great Effect Of Prayer Is That It Enables The Soul To Command The Body. By Obedience I Make My Body Submissive To My Soul, But Prayer Puts My Soul In Command Of My Body.

The Reason We See Hypocrisy And Fraud And Unreality In Others Is Because They Are All In Our Own Hearts. The Great Characteristic Of A Saint Is Humility-yes, All Those Things And Other Evils Would Have Been Manifested In Me But For The Grace Of God, Therefore I Have No Right To Judge.

For One Man Who Can Introduce Another To Jesus Christ By The Way He Lives And By The Atmosphere Of His Life, There Are A Thousand Who Can Only Talk Jargon About Him

If We Were Never Depressed We Should Not Be Alive; It Is The Nature Of A Crystal Never To Be Depressed.

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.

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

If A Crisis Has Come To You On Any Front, Surrender Your Will To Jesus Absolutely And Irrevocably.

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

Take Care Lest You Play The Hypocrite By Spending All Your Time Trying To Get Others Right Before You Worship God Yourself.

Christianity Is Not Consistency To Conscience Or To Convictions; Christianity Is Being True To Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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

We Impoverish God In Our Minds When We Say There Must Be Answers To Our Prayers On The Material Plane; The Biggest Answers To Our Prayers Are In The Realm Of The Unseen.

The Greatest Competitor Of Devotion To Jesus Is Service To Him. It Is Never 'do, Do' With The Lord, But 'be, Be' And He Will 'do' Through You. The Only Way To Keep True To God Is By A Steady Persistent Refusal To Be Interested In Christian Work And To Be Interested Alone In Jesus Christ.

If Sympathy Is All That Human Beings Need, Then The Cross Of Christ Is An Absurdity And There Is Absolutely No Need For It. What The World Needs Is Not "a Little Bit Of Love," But Major Surgery. If You Think You Are Helping Lost People With Your Sympathy And Understanding, You Are A Traitor To Jesus Christ. You Must Have A Right-standing Relationship With Him Yourself, And Pour Your Life Out In Helping Others In His Way— Not In A Human Way That Ignores God.

The Greatest Test Of A Man's Character Is His Tongue.

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.

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

The Degree Of Panic Activity In My Life Is Equal To The Degree Of My Lack Of Personal Spiritual Experience.

God Does Not Give Us Overcoming Life; He Gives Us Life As We Overcome.

Faith Is The Inborn Capacity To See God Behind Everything.

Prayer Is The Supreme Activity Of All That Is Noblest In Our Personality, And The Essential Nature Of Prayer Is Faith.

Jesus Christ Founded His Kingdom On The Weakest Link Of All-a Baby.

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

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.

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.

When We Touch The Foundation Of The Reality Of The Good News Of God, We Will Never Bother Him Anymore With Little Personal Complaints.

If Jesus Ever Commanded Us To Do Something That He Was Unable To Equip Us To Accomplish, He Would Be A Liar. And If We Make Our Own Inability A Stumbling Block Or An Excuse Not To Be Obedient, It Means That We Are Telling God That There Is Something Which He Has Not Yet Taken Into Account.

Get Into The Habit Of Saying, ''speak, Lord,'' And Life Will Become A Romance.

He Must Deny His Right To Himself, And He Must Realize Who Jesus Christ Is Before He Will Bring Himself To Do It. Beware Of Refusing To Go To The Funeral Of Your Own Independence

Beware Of Reasoning About God's Word - Obey It.

Our Lord's First Obedience Was To The Will Of His Father, Not To The Needs Of Men; The Saving Of Men Was The Natural Outcome Of His Obedience To The Father.

God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience. Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry.

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

Impossible Things

Jesus Christ Reveals, Not An Embarrassed God, Not A Confused God, Not A God Who Stands Apart From The Problems, But One Who Stands In The Thick Of The Whole Thing With Man.

Faith Is Deliberate Confidence In The Character Of God Whose Ways You Cannot Understand At The Time.

The Test Is The Sixty Seconds Of Every Minute, And The Sixty Minutes Of Every Hour, Not Our Times Of Prayer And Devotional Meetings.

It Is Impossible To Live The Life Of A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer. You Will Find That The Place To Enter In Is In Your Business, As You Walk Along The Streets, In The Ordinary Ways Of Life, When No One Dreams You Are Praying, And The Reward Comes Openly, A Revival Here, A Blessing There.

Sin Is Not Wrong Doing, It Is Wrong Being, Deliberate And Emphatic Independence Of God.

The Love Of God Is Not Created- It Is His Nature.

Am I Getting Nobler, Better, More Helpful, More Humble, As I Get Older? Am I Exhibiting The Life That Men Take Knowledge Of As Having Been With Jesus, Or Am I Getting More Self-assertive, More Deliberately Determined To Have My Own Way? It Is A Great Thing To Tell Yourself The Truth.

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.

Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.

Many Of Us Have A Mental Conception Of What A Christian Should Be, And The Lives Of The Saints Become A Hindrance To Our Concentration On God.

A Good Book, In The Language Of The Book-sellers, Is A Salable One; In That Of The Curious, A Scarce One; In That Of Men Of Sense, A Useful And Instructive One.

We Imagine That Whatever Is Unpleasant Is Our Duty! Is That Anything Like The Spirit Of Our Lord, "i *delight* To Do Thy Will, O My God.

Patience Is More Than Endurance. A Saint's Life Is In The Hands Of God Like A Bow And Arrow In The Hands Of An Archer. God Is Aiming At Something The Saint Cannot See, And He Stretches And Strains, And Every Now And Again The Saint Says--'i Cannot Stand Anymore.' God Does Not Heed, He Goes On Stretching Till His Purpose Is In Sight, Then He Lets Fly. Trust Yourself In God's Hands. Maintain Your Relationship To Jesus Christ By The Patience Of Faith. 'though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust In Him.

The Whole Point Of Getting Things Done Is Knowing What To Leave Undone.

God Saved Us To Make Us Holy, Not Happy. Some Experiences May Not Contribute To Our Happiness, But All Can Be Made To Contribute To Our Holiness. Vance Havner The Destined End Of Man Is Not Happiness, Nor Health, But Holiness. God's One Aim Is The Production Of Saints.

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!

Falling In Love

Quit Praying About Yourself And Spend Your Life For The Sake Of Others As The Bondservant Of Jesus. That Is The True Meaning Of Being Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine In Real Life.

We Must Learn To Live In The Ordinary 'gray' Day According To What We Saw On The Mountain.

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

Yielding To Jesus Will Break Every Form Of Slavery In Any Human Life.

The Root Of All Sin Is The Suspicion That God Is Not Good.

The Christian Church Should Not Be A Secret Society Of Specialists, But A Public Manifestation Of Believers In Jesus.

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.

If You Have Ever Prayed In The Dawn You Will Ask Yourself Why You Were So Foolish As Not To Do It Always: It Is Difficult To Get Into Communion With God In The Midst Of The Hurly-burly Of The Day.

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?

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

Spiritual Lust Causes Me To Demand An Answer From God, Instead Of Seeking God Himself Who Gives The Answer.

The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

God's Silences Are His Answers. If We Only Take As Answers Those That Are Visible To Our Senses, We Are In A Very Elementary Condition Of Grace.

We Will Suffer A Sharp Painful Disullisionment Before We Fully Surrender. When People Really See Themselves As The Lord Sees Them, It Is Not The Terribly Offensive Sins Of The Fleshthat Shock Them, But The Awful Nature Of The Pride Of Their Own Hearts Opposing Jesus Christ. When They See Themselves In The Light Of The Lord, The Shame, The Horror, And Desperate Conviction Hit Home For Them.

The Real Test Of A Saint Is Not One's Willingness To Preach The Gospel, But One's Willingness To Do Something Like Washing The Disciples' Feet - That Is, Being Willing To Do Those Things That Seem Unimportant In Human Estimation But Count As Everything To God.

To Wait Is Not To Sit With Folded Hands, But To Learn To Do What We Are Told.

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.

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

Prayer Is The Evidence That I Am Spiritually Concentrated On God.

If We Were Never Depressed We Would Not Be Alive - Only Material Things Don't Suffer Depression. If Human Beings Were Not Capable Of Depression, We Would Have No Capacity For Happiness And Exaltation. Whenever You Examine Yourself, Take Into Your Capacity For Depression.

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.

Beware Of The Inclination To Dictate To God What Consequences You Would Allow As A Condition Of Your Obedience To Him.

The One Thing That Remains Is Looking In The Face Of God For Ourselves.

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

It Is Perilously Possible To Make Our Conceptions Of God Like Molten Lead Poured Into A Specially Designed Mould, And When It Is Cold And Hard We Fling It At The Heads Of The Religious People Who Don't Agree With Us.

Faith, As The Bible Teaches It, Is Faith In God Coming Against Everything That Contradicts Him- A Faith That Says, “i Will Remain True To God’s Character Whatever He May Do.” The Highest And The Greatest Expression Of Faith In The Whole Bible Is- “though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust Him” (job 13:15).

Faith By Its Very Nature Must Be Tried, And The Real Trial Of Faith Is Not That We Find It Difficult To Trust God, But That God's Character Has To Be Cleared In Our Own Minds. Faith In Its Actual Working Out Has To Go Through Spells Of Unsyllabled Isolation. Never Confound The Trial Of Faith With The Ordinary Discipline Of Life. Much That We Call The Trial Of Faith Is The Inevitable Result Of Being Alive.

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.

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

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God; We Mistake Panic For Inspiration.

To Terrorize A Man Into Believing In God Is Never The Work Of God, But The Work Of Human Expediency. If We Want To Convince A Congregation Of A Certain Thing, We May Use Terror To Frighten Them Into It; But Never Say That Is God's Way, It Is Our Way. To Call That God's Method Is A Travesty To The Character Of God.

The Height Of The Mountaintop Is Measured By The Drab Drudgery Of The Valley.

By The Supernatural Miracle Of God's Grace I Stand Justified, Not Because I Am Sorry For My Sin, Not Because I Have Repented, But Because Of What Jesus Has Done.

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.

Never Focus Your Eyes On The Obstacle Or The Difficulty. The Obstacle Will Be A Matter Of Total Indifference To The River That Will Flow Steadily Through You If You Will Simply Remember To Stay Focused On The Source.

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.

The Real Business Of Your Life As A Saved Soul Is Intercessory Prayer.

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.

We Must Keep Ourselves In Touch, Not With Theories, But With People. We Must Never Get Out Of Touch With Them If We Are Going To Use The Word Of God Skillfully Amongst Them And If The Holy Spirit Is To Apply The Word Of God Through Us.

Narrow All Your Interests Until The Attitude Of Mind And Heart And Body Is Concentration On Jesus Christ.

As Soon As We Abandon Ourselves To God And Do The Task He Has Placed Closest To Us, He Begins To Fill Our Lives With Surprises.

God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son

Our Salvation Comes To Us So Easily Because It Cost God So Much.

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

The Peace That Jesus Gives Is Never Engineered By Circumstances On The Outside.

Suppose God Wants To Teach You To Say, "i Know How To Be Abased"--are You Ready To Be Offered Up Like That? Are You Ready To Be Not So Much As A Drop In A Bucket--to Be So Hopelessly Insignificant That You Are Never Thought Of Again In Connection With The Life You Served? Are You Willing To Spend And Be Spent; Not Seeking To Be Ministered Unto, But To Minister?

Our Lord’s Teaching Is Always Anti-self-realization. His Purpose Is Not The Development Of A Man; His Purpose Is To Make A Man Exactly Like Himself, And The Characteristic Of The Son Of God Is Self-expenditure.

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

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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