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It is a joy to Jesus when a disciple takes time to walk more intimately with Him.
We must simply obey and leave all the consequences with Him.
We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.
The greatest curse in our spiritual life is pride.
God providentially weaves the threads of His call through our lives, and only we can distinguish them.
My contact with the nature of God will shape my understanding of His call and will help me realize what I truly desire to do for Him.
Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
The goal of the call of God is His satisfaction, not simply that we should do something for Him.
There is never any need to pretend that your life is filled with joy and confidence; just wait upon God and be grounded in Him (see Isaiah 50:10–11).
Freshness is not the result of obedience; it comes from the Holy Spirit.
Being born of the Spirit means much more than we usually think. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything through the never-ending supply of the life of God.
Our difficulties, our trials, and our worries about tomorrow all vanish when we look to God.
Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.
Do not look for God to come in a particular way, but do look for Him.
No matter how well we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that He may break in at any minute.
Every time we lose ground in our fellowship with God, it is because we have disrespectfully thought that we knew better than Jesus Christ.
How much time have we wasted asking God senseless questions while we should be absolutely free to concentrate on our service to Him?
All I do should be based on a perfect oneness with Him, not on a self-willed determination to be godly.
God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
We presume that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord—“I delight to do Your will, O my God” (Psalm 40:8).
Every time circumstances press in on you, say, “Speak, Lord,” and make time to listen.
God’s message to you may hurt your “Eli,” but trying to prevent suffering in another’s life will prove to be an obstruction between your soul and God.
Personal holiness is an effect of redemption, not the cause of it.
Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God.
God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character.
“You shall be witnesses to Me.” Not witnesses to what Jesus can do—that is basic and understood—but “witnesses to Me.”
This total surrender to “the love of Christ” is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God’s holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.
Lust means “I must have it at once.”
Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it.
Sanctification means to be intensely focused on God’s point of view.
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.
He saved and sanctified you to exhaust you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply.
One of the reasons for our sense of futility in prayer is that we have lost our power to visualize. We can no longer even imagine putting ourselves deliberately before God.
When you have thoughts and ideas that are worthy of credit to God, learn to compare and associate them with all that happens in nature—the rising and the setting of the sun, the shining of the moon and the stars, and the changing of the seasons. You will begin to see that your thoughts are from God as well, and your mind will no longer be at the mercy of your impulsive thinking, but will always be used in service to God.
The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me (see John 11:41).
But once you hear Him, He gives you the gift of humiliation, which brings a softness of heart—a gift that will always cause you to listen to God now.
God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome.
Whenever you examine yourself, always take into account your capacity for depression.
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Drudgery is work that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work.
Allow Him to be the source of all your dreams, joys, and delights, and be careful to go and obey what He has said.
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
We should quit asking ourselves, “Am I of any use?” and accept the truth that we really are not of much use to Him.
Once we realize that Jesus has served us even to the depths of our meagerness, our selfishness, and our sin, nothing we encounter from others will be able to exhaust our determination to serve others for His sake.
The real test of a saint is not one’s willingness to preach the gospel, but one’s willingness to do something like washing the disciples’ feet—that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
My misgivings arise from the fact that I search within to find how He will do what He says. My doubts spring from the depths of my own inferiority.
When we do something out of a sense of duty, it is easy to explain the reasons for our actions to others. But when we do something out of obedience to the Lord, there can be no other explanation—just obedience. That is why a saint can be so easily ridiculed and misunderstood.
Showing no concern for the uncertainties that lie ahead is the secret of walking with Jesus.
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
