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We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.
And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.
One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.