Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.
Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.
Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility
Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.
Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I’m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That’s willingness all right. But God doesn’t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.
I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!
No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.
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