Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.
When you fear God you fear nothing else!
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.
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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.
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.
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.
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.
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