Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
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 is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in 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 meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.
We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.
God will speak to the hearts of those who prepare themselves to hear; and conversely, those who do not so prepare themselves will hear nothing even though the Word of God is falling upon their outer ears every Sunday.
Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.
Trust God in the dark until the light returns.
We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.
We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.
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.
God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.
God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
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.
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