Do not waver,but give him that which he desires your hearts;It is the heart the Lord Jesus Christ wanteth; and when you have an inward principle wrought in your hearts by this same Jesus then you will feel the sweetness and pleasure of communion with God.
~George Whitefield~
Obedience is not the most popular word in our vocabulary. Obedience is much more than following rules; it's a state of the heart. By missing this truth, we miss the power of complete obedience. Behind God's demands is the grace that makes it possible for us to obey. The blessing of complete obedience is your intimate connection with a loving, protective God
~Andrew Murray~
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line He has been drawing
~William Gurnall~
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the LORD, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us as His bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change
~Hudson Taylor~
Do you long to know how you may always experience deliverance from the sin of prayerlessness? Here you have the secret. Believe in the Son of God, give Him time in the inner chamber to reveal Himself in His ever present nearness, as the Eternal and Almighty One, the Eternal Love who watches over you...it has not entered into the heart of man what God can do for those who love Him.
~Andrew Murray~
Any faith that has to be supported by the senses is not real faith
~A.W. Tozer~
Every Instance of obedience, from right motives strengthens us spiritually whilst every act of disobedience weakens us
~George Mueller~
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
~Richard Baxter~
I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation
I never knew how bad a heart I have.
Yet I do know that I love God and love His work
And desire to serve Him only and in all things.
And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can be accepted
~Hudson Taylor~
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting~so patient with my foolishness,my weakness, my fear,Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.
~Campbell Morgan~
Revival cannot be organized, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
~Campbell Morgan~
Light means nothing to a blind man
~A.W. Tozer~
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
~ C. T. Studd~
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
~Hudson Taylor~
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. Bring it to the front; speak the Truth; live the Truth. We tell this people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our Home is above — that all these things are transitory — does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives! The life of the Apostle was thoroughly consistent. Every one saw that he was a stranger and a sojourner; no one could feel that his home was here; all saw that it was up there.
~Hudson Taylor~
Trials and hairbreadth escapes only strengthened my faith and nerved me for more to follow; and they trod swiftly enough upon each other's heels. Without that abiding consciousness of the presence and power of my Lord and Saviour, nothing in the world could have preserved me from losing my reason and perishing miserably. His words Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end became to me so real that it would not have startled me to behold Him, as Stephen did, gazing down upon the scene. It is the sober truth that I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.
~John Paton~
I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.
~Hudson Taylor~
Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death with Christ? Why should a person be willing to go in identification down to the cross and into the tomb and up again? I’ll tell you why! Because it’s the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!
~Paris Reidhead~
Therefore, we need to be aware that as long as we live we are going to be capable of yielding to temptation. Is there ever victory over temptation, then? Yes!... He saves - not just from hell, which is the penalty of sin - He saves His people from the power of sin.
~Paris Reidhead~
In response to heart faith a marvelous thing happens. In heaven, we are justified: The record against us has changed; that is to say, our standing before God has changed. Justified means it is as though I had never sinned.
~Paris Reidhead~
You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.
~Lester Roloff~
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.
Great faith must have great trials.
~Charles H. Spurgeon~
The Savior is not looking for men and women who will give their
spare evenings to Him - or their years of retirement. Rather, He
seeks those who will give Him first place in their lives."
~William MacDonald~
There was a day when I died, utterly died-died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends-and since then I have only to show myself approved to God
~George Mueller~
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
~Jim Elliot~
Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply."
~A. W. Tozer~
If we allow a doubt about God to come into our
hearts when we are having a bad time, we shall find ourselves away from
the Lord, and it is much easier to get away from the Lord than it is to
come back to Him. It is a lifelong battle to keep our fellowship with
the Lord unbroken. If Satan cannot break it in our sufferings he will
sometimes try it in our prosperity and blessings. He offered Jesus all
the kingdoms of this world and said, in effect, 'I can make you great
and prosperous in this world.'
~T. Austin Sparks~
It is by believing that we get rest — by no
other means, not by scheming and plotting and planning and thinking and
criticizing and judging and doubting and questioning, but by believing —
the submission of the soul to God’s truth, the yielding of the heart to
God’s salvation. This once done we lie down in green pastures, and are
led beside the still waters.
~Charles Spurgeon~
Our walk counts far more than our talk always!
~George Mueller~
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
~Oswald Chambers~
Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in GOD. He has no record of failure.
~Mrs. Charles E. Cowman~
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
~A.W. Tozer~
The Egyptians have been counted the most degraded people of this world in their worship. They worshipped onions, till Juvenal
says, “O blessed people, who grow their gods in their own gardens!” But
I do not think they were quite so degraded as the man that worships
himself. If I could bring my soul to worship an onion, I could never
degrade myself low enough to worship myself. A man who makes himself his
own God is mad!
~Charles Spurgeon~
Our gifts are not to be measured by the amount we contribute, but by the surplus kept in our own hands. The two mites of the widow were, in Christ’s eyes, worth more than all the other money cast into the treasury, for, ‘she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
~Charles Spurgeon~
Humility is to make the right estimate of yourself.
~Charles Spurgeon~
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep
well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are
many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
~Charles Spurgeon~
There is a great deal in the way in which a man walks in his house. It will not do to be a saint abroad and a devil at home!
There are some of that kind. They are wonderfully sweet at a Prayer Meeting, but they are dreadfully sour to their wives and
children. This will never do! Every genuine Believer should say, and
mean it, ‘I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.’
It is in the home that we get the truest proof of godliness. ‘What sort of a man is he?’ said one to George Whitefield, and
Whitefield answered, ‘I cannot say, for I never lived with him.’ That is the way to test a man—to live with him.
~Charles Spurgeon~
No sin, whatever it is, shall ruin any man if he shall come to Christ for mercy. Though you are black as Hell’s midnight through iniquity, yet if you will come to Christ, He is ready to cleanse you. It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks your way to the Savior.
~Charles Spurgeon~
We often pray for Christians in adversity and
it is right that we should do so, but it is even more necessary to pray
for Christians in prosperity, for they run the risk of gradually
becoming soft, like Hannibal’s soldiers destroyed by Capuan holidays,
who lost their valor in their luxury. Many a man who was an out-and-out
Christian when he was lower down in life has, when prosperous, become
much too great a gentleman to associate with those who were his honored
Brothers and Sisters before.
~Charles Spurgeon~
It is a fine thing, when you are slandered, not to hear it. And it is a better thing to never reply to it. I have always tried to possess one deaf ear and one blind eye—and I believe that the deaf ear is the better ear, and the blind eye by far the more useful of the two. Do not remember the injury that is done to you, try to forget it and pass it over. Do not go about the world determined to grasp every red-hot iron that any fool holds out before you. Let it alone! It will be for your own good and for God’s Glory to be very patient under the slander of the wicked.
~Charles Spurgeon~
A humble desire is one which leaves everything in God’s hands. The man who has it, says, Now, though I desire this, it may be it is not a right desire. Lord, I desire only to desire what I ought to desire! My desire is that Your desire should be written on my heart, that I may desire what You desire.’ Your will be done in my soul, in my body, in my circumstances and in me, in all respects.
~Charles Spurgeon~
God creates something out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
~Martin Luther~
Calmness is the way we show we are Trusting GOD.
~Charles Spurgeon~
God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
~Charles Spurgeon~
Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
~D.L. Moody~
Standing in the LORD is always related to HIS
heavenly purpose The LORD must have a people proved; who have stood the
testing and who have come to the end of every resource in themselves,
having only one asset — the LORD.
~T. Austin Sparks~
The
devil and the evil forces are tremendously concerned with getting us
down and holding us down, so that they can harass and play havoc with
our spiritual lives. Down... down... that is the drive and direction of
the evil one, who plans to get us down and keep us down in the place
where he has the strength. Our refuge is not to fight on that low
ground, but to flee to the heights, to escape to the Lord in the secret
place of the most High.
~T.Austin Sparks~
If Satan and the powers of darkness could ever
stop the people of God from being led by the Spirit of God, they would
successfully thwart the power of God because the power of God is
released through obedience. The enemy is never threatened by those
"having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof..." (2 Tim. 3:5).
The enemy is threatened, however, by a company of overcomers today who
dare to deny themselves and take up their cross daily (Luke 9:23), who
dare to follow the Lamb wherever He goes. He trembles at the very
emergence of these crucified ones.
~Charles Elliot Newbold~
The old order is an outward order of doing,
while the new order is the inward reality of being. Of course it holds
true that whatever one is on the inside will determine what he does on
the outside. The difference between being religious and being born again
is this--that one who is born again has his very nature changed by the
power of God. Religion, at best, can only control or modify the outward
behavior of a person.
He who is born again was once one thing; now he is another.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
~Charles Elliot Newbold~
As long as the church of Christ has to say, “My right arm is Episcopalian, and my left arm is Wesleyan, and my right foot is Baptist, and my left foot is Presbyterian or Congregational,” she is not ready for the marriage. She will be ready when she has washed out these stains, when all her members have “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.
~Charles Spurgeon~
Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.
~Charles Spurgeon~
If Christ be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.
~Charles H. Spurgeon~
The Bible reveals that there is one thing that
God hates. It is the one thing that God will not accept and will not
bless, and that is mixture. Mixture is the bringing together of two
contrary things. A situation where you bring in something that is not of
God and try to link it up with something that is of God. That is
mixture. That is what the devil did at the beginning and God hates it.
He will never accept mixture.
~T. Austin Sparks~
It is not hard for the LORD to turn night into
day. He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. Let us be
of good cheer. It is better farther on. Let us sing Hallelujah by
anticipation.
~Charles Spurgeon~
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You’d be bored to tears in heaven, if you’re not ecstatic about God now!!~Keith Green
No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him! ~Keith Green
The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, "Well done, thy good and faithful servant," is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!!!~Keith Green
He makes His ministers a flame of fire.Am I ignitible? Make me thy fuel flame of God.
~Jim Elliot~
What
is true of the Church as a whole is true in our individual lives. The
way of enlargement is through the test of faith as to God's time, the
test of faith as to God's passion, the test of faith as to God's basis,
God's means. When the Lord gets His people proved in faith on these
matters, then comes enlargement. We only get to fullness that way. It is
in pressure we are enlarged, through suffering we come to fullness,
through faith being tried on every point, in every direction, that the
increase comes; and there is no increase in any other way.
~T. Austin Sparks~
If
you have a soul that believes and trusts and has faith quite easily, and
you do not in your own human nature have any trouble in the matter of
faith, then the Bible was never written for you.
~T. Austin Sparks~
How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations,
cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord
~Charles Finney~
Spiritual
leanness can be a judgment. "He sent leanness into their souls", while
he gave them their request for natural fatness.
~T. Austin Sparks~
In
the pathway of faith we come to learn that the Lord’s thoughts are not
our thoughts, nor His ways our ways. Both in the physical and spiritual
realm, great pressure means great power! Although circumstances may
bring us into the place of death, that need not spell disaster—for
if we trust in the Lord and wait patiently, that simply provides the
occasion for the display of His Almighty Power.“Remember his marvelous
works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth”
(Ps. 105:5 KJV)...
~L. B. Cowman~
If
you yield to Satan in the least, he will carry you further and further,
till he has left you under a stupefied or terrified conscience:
stupefied, till thou hast lost all thy tenderness. A stone at the top of
a hill, when it begins to roll down, ceases not till it comes to the bottom. Thou thinkest it is but yielding a little, and so by degrees are
carried on, till thou hast sinned away all thy profession, and all
principles of conscience, by the secret witchery of his temptations.~Thomas Manton~
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful "adjustment" to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
~A. W. Tozer~
The desire to be liked even if not respected is a great weakness in any man's character, and in that of a minister of Jesus Christ it is a weakness wholly inexcusable. The popular image of the man of God as a smiling, congenial, asexual religious mascot whose handshake is always soft and whose head is always bobbing in the perpetual Yes of universal acquiescence is not the image found in the Scriptures of truth.
~A. W. Tozer~
Comfort and solace follow affliction. First the fire, then the rain; first the wounding, then the healing; first the flames of the fiery furnace, then the refreshing comforts of the HOLY SPIRIT. First the mown grass laid low by the scythe, then the promised fulfilled - "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth
~J. R. Macduff~
We must trust the Lord through the darkness, and honor Him with unwavering confidence even in the midst of difficult situations. The reward of this kind of faith will be like that of an eagle shedding its feathers is said to receive—a renewed sense of youth and strength.
~J. R. Macduff~
Faith has nothing to do with circumstances. It deals entirely with the word of God. Faith does not feed upon the experiences of others, though these may be a stimulus : its food is found in the promises of God.
~Amy Wilson Carmichael~
In order to produce a movement of a vital spiritual nature someone must suffer , someone must go through sore travail of soul before a living movement, outwardly visible, can be born.
~Amy Wilson Carmichael~
Give what you have, for you never know—to someone else it may be better than you can even dare to think.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
See His relationship to His Own. It is summed up in one word - having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end" (John 13:1). Perhaps He loved Judas. You notice that when Judas led that band to Him, He did not look at him and say, "Traitor! You scoundrel! You wicked man!" He said, "Friend"! I think that was enough to send Judas to suicide. "He called me friend, and yet He knew what I was doing!" He loved His Own to the end. And, knowing ourselves, shall we not agree that there is a mystery about this love? Oh, yes!
~T. Austin Sparks~
One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving
~Amy Wilson Carmichael~
Be ready to cut off everything that would hinder, and cast it from you. Be ready and willing to suffer the loss of possessions, of friends, of health - of all things on earth - so you may enter into the kingdom of heaven.
~John Wesley~
The Cross is necessary for our breaking. It is not a pleasant note, I know, but in all faithfulness it must be said. This is the Lord’s word to you: that if you are not broken by the Cross, if you have not gone through an experience of real brokenness under the hand of God, all that the Lord means in you and through you will still be suspended, it will be impossible. If the Cross means one thing, it does mean that the Cross is the way to the glory and to heavenly fullness.
~T. Austin Sparks~
Pulled out of the mud of your own ego, so that you have stopped thinking that you are somebody, at last you are delivered from yourself and are seeking God for Himself alone.
~A. W. Tozer~
I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary
~Smith Wigglesworth~
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful "adjustment" to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
~A. W. Tozer~
Whatever He says to you — do it!! It is the doing which is important. We should never ask questions nor make suggestions, when Jesus has spoken- the one thing for us is obedience. We should never ask what the consequences may be, or what it may cost us — we are simply to obey. Jesus knows why He wants us to do the thing and that should be reason enough for us.
~J. R. Miller~
If you live wrong you can't die right.
~Billy Sunday~
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
~Billy Sunday~
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
~Billy Sunday~
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