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We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life — those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life, and th…
God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose — that He may be able to say, 'This is My man, and this is My woman.' We have to be…
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"—this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
We act like pagans in a crisis - only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfect…
The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of 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 mistake…
God's mark of approval, whenever you obey Him, is peace. He sends an immeasurable, deep peace; not a natural peace, 'as the world gives,'but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, wait until it does, or seek t…
The underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.
Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all 'supposing' on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you wi…
The greatest characteristic a Christian can exhibit is this completely unveiled openness before God, which allows that person's life to become a mirror for others. When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beh…
There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness…
The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict again…
You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34).
The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose — to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.
Never disregard a conviction that the Holy Spirit brings to you. If it is important enough for the Spirit of God to bring it to your mind, it is the very thing He is detecting in you. You were looking for some big thing…
Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship with God that shows itself to be true even amid the seemingly unimportant aspects of human life. W…
April 1 Heartiness v. Heartlessness towards Others It is Christ . . . who also maketh intercession for us. . . . The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints. Romans 8:34, 27 Do we need any more argument than this…
It is not so true that 'prayer changes things' as that prayer changes me and I change things.
When we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.
In Luke 10:20, Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have a commercialized view — we count how many souls have been saved…
God's will, a crisis must develop in our lives. This happens because we tend to be unresponsive to God's gentler nudges. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be our utmost for Him and we begin to debate. He then…
As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him — to give God 'elbow room.' We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.
Paul says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the love of Christ. Very few of us know what it means to be held in a grip by the love of God; we are held by the constraint of our experience only. The one…
Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature — the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but wi…
If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may…
We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If y…
Say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'Prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks…
He who believes in Me . . . out of his heart will flow . . . —John 7:38
Jesus did not say, "He who believes in Me will realize all the blessings of the fullness of God," but, in essence, "He who believes in Me will have…
No amount of enthusiasm will ever stand up to the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His servant. Only one thing will bear the strain, and that is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ Himself — a relationship th…
I, a guilty sinner, can never work to get right with God — it is impossible. There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ.
Watch for the storms of God. The only way God plants His saints is through the whirlwind of His storms. Will you be proven to be an empty pod with no seed inside? That will depend on whether or not you are actually livin…
You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter, now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. "Add" means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with c…
Are you seeking great things for yourself, instead of seeking to be a great person? God wants you to be in a much closer relationship with Himself than simply receiving His gifts' He wants you to get to know Him. Even so…
These words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to a…
There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctificat…
At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you.
As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all — we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.
Prayer does not equip us for greater works — prayer is the greater work.
Think of the last thing you prayed about — were you devoted to your desire or to God? Was your determination to get some gift of the Spirit for yourself or to get to God? 'For your Father knows the things you have need o…
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations — it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.
The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain.
Don't get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you — with patience and with gentleness. But never water down the truth of God. Let it have its way and never apologize for it. Jesus said, 'Go . . . and make…
The things we try to avoid and fight against — tribulation, suffering, and persecution' are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. 'We are more than conquerors through Him' 'in all these things'; not in spite o…
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt — wait.
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.
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship — when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechle…
In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7
Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion,…
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
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We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life — those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life, and th…
God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose — that He may be able to say, 'This is My man, and this is My woman.' We have to be…
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"—this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
We act like pagans in a crisis - only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfect…
The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of 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 mistake…
God's mark of approval, whenever you obey Him, is peace. He sends an immeasurable, deep peace; not a natural peace, 'as the world gives,'but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, wait until it does, or seek t…
The underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.
Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all 'supposing' on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you wi…
The greatest characteristic a Christian can exhibit is this completely unveiled openness before God, which allows that person's life to become a mirror for others. When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beh…
There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness…
The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict again…
You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34).
The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose — to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.
Never disregard a conviction that the Holy Spirit brings to you. If it is important enough for the Spirit of God to bring it to your mind, it is the very thing He is detecting in you. You were looking for some big thing…
Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship with God that shows itself to be true even amid the seemingly unimportant aspects of human life. W…
April 1 Heartiness v. Heartlessness towards Others It is Christ . . . who also maketh intercession for us. . . . The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints. Romans 8:34, 27 Do we need any more argument than this…
It is not so true that 'prayer changes things' as that prayer changes me and I change things.
When we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.
In Luke 10:20, Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have a commercialized view — we count how many souls have been saved…
God's will, a crisis must develop in our lives. This happens because we tend to be unresponsive to God's gentler nudges. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be our utmost for Him and we begin to debate. He then…
As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him — to give God 'elbow room.' We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.
Paul says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the love of Christ. Very few of us know what it means to be held in a grip by the love of God; we are held by the constraint of our experience only. The one…
Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature — the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but wi…
If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may…
We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If y…
Say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'Prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks…
He who believes in Me . . . out of his heart will flow . . . —John 7:38
Jesus did not say, "He who believes in Me will realize all the blessings of the fullness of God," but, in essence, "He who believes in Me will have…
No amount of enthusiasm will ever stand up to the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His servant. Only one thing will bear the strain, and that is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ Himself — a relationship th…
I, a guilty sinner, can never work to get right with God — it is impossible. There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ.
Watch for the storms of God. The only way God plants His saints is through the whirlwind of His storms. Will you be proven to be an empty pod with no seed inside? That will depend on whether or not you are actually livin…
You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter, now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. "Add" means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with c…
Are you seeking great things for yourself, instead of seeking to be a great person? God wants you to be in a much closer relationship with Himself than simply receiving His gifts' He wants you to get to know Him. Even so…
These words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to a…
There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctificat…
At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you.
As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all — we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.
Prayer does not equip us for greater works — prayer is the greater work.
Think of the last thing you prayed about — were you devoted to your desire or to God? Was your determination to get some gift of the Spirit for yourself or to get to God? 'For your Father knows the things you have need o…
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations — it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.
The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain.
Don't get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you — with patience and with gentleness. But never water down the truth of God. Let it have its way and never apologize for it. Jesus said, 'Go . . . and make…
The things we try to avoid and fight against — tribulation, suffering, and persecution' are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. 'We are more than conquerors through Him' 'in all these things'; not in spite o…
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt — wait.
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.
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship — when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechle…
In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7
Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion,…
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.