I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.
The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.
We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.
Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.
Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.
God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.
Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.
Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any
There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.
The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians
We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second
One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
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