God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.
The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.
The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again
People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.
No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.
When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
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