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We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not
We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.
The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.
We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.
Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!
If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.
We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.
The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?
What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.
The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.