Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.
Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.
We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
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.
God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.
You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.
If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.
If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.
In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?
Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.
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.
I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.
If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
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