No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God-trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us.
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.
By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us. The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
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