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.
God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
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!
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
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 wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
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.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.
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.
Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
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.
Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?
We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.
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