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Which Are The People Who Have Influenced Us Most? Not The Ones Who Thought They Did, But Those Who Had Not The Remotest Notion That They Were Influencing Us. In The Christian Life, The Implicit Is Never Conscious, If It Is Conscious It Ceases To Have This Unaffected Loveliness Which Is The Characteristic Of The Touch Of Jesus. We Always Know When Jesus Is At Work Because He Produces In The Commonplace Something That Is Inspiring.

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Which Are The People Who Have Influenced Us Most? Not The Ones Who Thought They Did, But Those Who Had Not The Remotest Notion That They Were Influencing Us. In The Christian Life, The Implicit Is Never Conscious, If It Is Conscious It Ceases To Have This Unaffected Loveliness Which Is The Characteristic Of The Touch Of Jesus. We Always Know When Jesus Is At Work Because He Produces In The Commonplace Something That Is Inspiring.

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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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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.

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When We Become Advocates Of A Creed, Something Dies; We Do Not Believe God, We Only Believe Our Belief About Him.

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.

Once The Call Of God Comes To You, Start Going And Never Stop.

Are You Learning To Say Things After Listening To God, Or Are You Saying Things And Trying To Make God's Word Fit In?

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

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It Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third

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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 Pray Pious Blether, Our Will Is Not In It, And Then We Say God Does Not Answer; We Never Asked Him For Anything. Asking Means That Our Wills Are In What We Ask.

Never Allow Anything To Divert You From Your Insight Into Jesus Christ. It Is The True Test Of Whether You Are Spiritual Or Not. To Be Unspiritual Means That Other Things Have A Growing Fascination For You. Since Mine Eyes Have Looked On Jesus, I’ve Lost Sight Of All Beside, So Enchained My Spirit’s Vision, Gazing On The Crucified.

The Dearest Friend On Earth Is A Mere Shadow Compared With Jesus Christ.

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.

No Man Has Ever Gone Through The Crisis Of Deliberately Making Jesus Lord And Found Him To Be A Failure.

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.

Prayer Is The Vital Breath Of The Christian; Not The Thing That Makes Him Alive, But The Evidence That He Is Alive.

The Greatest Word Of Jesus To His Disciples Is Abandon

You May Often Have To Watch Jesus Christ Wreck A Life Before He Saves It.

Not Often, But Every Once In A While, God Brings Us To A Major Turning Point — A Great Crossroads In Our Life.

We Are Only What We Are In The Dark; All The Rest Is Reputation.

A Man Ceases To Be An Honest Doubter The Moment He Refuses One Way Of Getting At The Truth Because He Does Not Like That Way.

The Saint Is Hilarious When He Is Crushed With Difficulties Because The Thing Is So Ludicrously Impossible To Anyone But God.

When A Man Gets To Despair He Knows That All His Thinking Will Never Get Him Out. He Will Only Get Out By The Sheer Creative Effort Of God. Consequently He Is In The Right Attitude To Receive From God That Which He Cannot Gain For Himself.

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

Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.

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.

It Is A Great Thing To See Physical Courage, And Greater Still To See Moral Courage, But The Greatest To See Of All Is Spiritual Courage; Oh, To See A Person Who Will Stand True To The Integrity Of Jesus Christ No Matter What He Or She Goes Through!

Never Let The Sense Of Failure Corrupt Your New Action.

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.

So Long As There Is A Human Being Who Does Not Know Jesus Christ, I Am His Debtor To Serve Him Until He Does.

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.

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.

God Cannot Reveal Anything To Us If We Have Not His Spirit.

God Is Not Concerned About Our Plans; He Doesn’t Ask, “do You Want To Go Through This Loss Of A Loved One, This Difficulty, Or This Defeat?” No, He Allows These Things For His Own Purpose. The Things We Are Going Through Are Either Making Us Sweeter, Better, And Nobler Men And Women, Or They Are Making Us More Critical And Fault-finding, And More Insistent On Our Own Way. The Things That Happen Either Make Us Evil, Or They Make Us More Saintly, Depending Entirely On Our Relationship With God And Its Level Of Intimacy.

God Seems To Have A Delightful Way Of Upsetting The Things We Have Calculated On Without Taking Him Into Account. We Get Into Circumstances Which Were Not Chosen By God, And Suddenly We Find We Have Been Calculating Without God; He Has Not Entered In As A Living Factor. The One Thing That Keeps Us From The Possibility Of Worrying Is Bringing God In As The Greatest Factor In All Our Calculations.

Some Of Us Are Like The Dead Sea, Always Taking In But Never Giving Out, Because We Are Not Rightly Related To The Lord Jesus.

If We Rely On The Holy Spirit, We Shall Find That Our Prayers Become More And More Inarticulate; And When They Are Inarticulate, Reverence Grows Deeper And Deeper.

The Resentment Of Discipline Of Any Kind Will Warp The Whole Life Away From God's Purpose.

A Heartless Christian Must Be A Terrible Grief To Our Lord.

The Lasting Value Of Our Public Service For God Is Measured By The Depth Of The Intimacy Of Our Private Times Of Fellowship And Oneness With Him.

Living A Life Of Faith Means Never Knowing Where You Are Being Led - But It Does Mean Loving And Knowing The One Who Is Leading. It Is Literally A Life Of Faith, Not Of Understanding And Reason- - A Life Of Knowing Him Who Calls Us To Go.

God Will Never Reveal More Truth About Himself Until You Have Obeyed What You Know Already

The Strain Of Life Is What Builds Our Strength. If There Is No Strain, There Will Be No Strength.

Are You Debating Whether You Should Take A Step Of Faith In Jesus, Or Whether You Should Wait Until You Can Clearly See How To Do What He Has Asked? Simply Obey Him With Unrestrained Joy. When He Tells You Something And You Begin To Debate, It Is Because You Have A Misunderstanding Of What Honors Him And What Doesn't. Are You Faithful To Jesus, Or Faithful To Your Ideas About Him?

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.

It Is Misleading To Imagine That We Are Developed In Spite Of Our Circumstances, For We Are Developed Because Of Them. It Is Mastery In Circumstances That Is Needed, Not Mastery Over Them.

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

If We Are Going To Live As Disciples Of Jesus, We Have To Remember That All Noble Things Are Difficult.

No Love Of The Natural Heart Is Safe Unless The Human Heart Has Been Satisfied By God First

Many Of Us Refuse To Grow Where We Are Put; Consequently, We Take Root Nowhere.

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.

Our Lord’s Making Of A Disciple Is Supernatural. He Does Not Build On Any Natural Capacity Of Ours At All. God Does Not Ask Us To Do The Things That Are Naturally Easy For Us- He Only Asks Us To Do The Things That We Are Perfectly Fit To Do Through His Grace, And That Is Where The Cross We Must Bear Will Always Come.

The Remarkable Thing About God Is That When You Fear God, You Fear Nothing Else, Whereas If You Do Not Fear God, You Fear Everything Else.

If There Is A God

Have You Ever Sought God With Your Whole Heart, Or Have You Simply Given Him A Feeble Cry After Some Emotionally Painful Experience?

Painful Experiences

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.

If For One Whole Day, Quietly And Determinedly, We Were To Give Ourselves Up To The Ownership Of Jesus And To Obeying His Orders, We Should Be Amazed At Its Close To Realize All He Had Packed Into That One Day.

Have You Ever Realized That You Can Give Things To God That Are Of Value To Him? Or Are You Just Sitting Around Daydreaming About The Greatness Of His Redemption, While Neglecting All The Things You Could Be Doing For Him? I'm Not Referring To Works Which Could Be Regarded As Divine And Miraculous, But Ordinary, Simple Human Things - Things Which Would Be Evidence To God That You Are Totally Surrendered To Him.

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.

Make Converts To Your Own Thoughts And Opinions.

It Is Impossible To Conduct Your Life As A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer

Not Every Man Can Carry A Full Cup. Sudden Elevation Frequently Leads To Pride And A Fall. The Most Exacting Test Of All To Survive Is Prosperity.

The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

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

It Is A Joy To Jesus When A Person Takes Time To Walk More Intimately With Him. The Bearing Of Fruit Is Always Shown In Scripture To Be A Visible Result Of An Intimate Relationship With Jesus Christ.

Intimate Relationships

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

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.

We Think We Understand Another Person's Struggle Until God Reveals The Same Shortcomings In Our Lives.

Complete Weakness And Dependence Will Always Be The Occasion For The Spirit Of God To Manifest His Power.

One Of The Most Subtle Burdens God Ever Puts On Us As Saints Is This Burden Of Discernment Concerning Other Souls. He Reveals Things In Order That We May Take The Burden Of These Souls Before Him And Form The Mind Of Christ About Them. It Is Not That We Bring God Into Touch With Our Minds, But That We Rouse Ourselves Until God Is Able To Convey His Mind To Us About The One For Whom We Intercede.

Intercession Is About Putting Ourselves In Other’s Shoes Or Having Sympathy With Others. But Intercessions Are About Having The Mind Of God And See Things Through His Perspective

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

I Have No Right To Say I Believe In God Unless I Order My Life As Under His All-seeing Eye.

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.

Never Make The Blunder Of Trying To Forecast The Way God Is Going To Answer Your Prayer.

Christian Inspirational

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

If We Pray Only Because We Want Answers, We Will Become Irritated And Angry With God. We Receive An Answer Every Time We Pray, But It Does Not Always Come In The Way We Expect, And Our Spiritual Irritation Shows Our Refusal To Identify Ourselves Truly With Our Lord In Prayer. We Are Not Here To Prove That God Answers Prayer, But To Be Living Trophies Of God’s Grace.

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 Disciple Is Rich Not In Possessions, But In Personal Identity.

There Is No Joy In The Soul That Has Forgotten What God Prizes.

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