The Making of a Man of God Quotes

“The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“David knew that all the question marks of his life were in the hand of God. He knew it was impossible to be in God's hand and in the enemy's hand at the same time. The gloom begins to disappear and fear departs as faith emerges in glorious triumph. This man is rising out of his testing and adversity to learn to put his utter dependence on the Lord.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“When you are living by faith through the darkness of circumstances, other people become aware of the radiance and sweetness of your life, and they are truly blessed. When you refuse to admit your failure, God cannot be revealed through you to others, and they may be lost for eternity. Oh, the sin of unbelief has desperate consequences, not only for yourself, but for others!”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“Heaven’s justice and righteousness must be recognized and maintained. Apart from grace, you find yourself bankrupt and insolvent, desperately in debt and helpless to meet God’s judgment. Therefore, your only hope is to fly to the wounded side of the Lord, who in His life kept God’s law perfectly and in His death paid the price of your rebellion.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“So often the providences of God seem to run completely counter to His promises, but only that He may test our faith, only that He may ultimately accomplish His purpose for our lives in a way that He could never do if the path were always smooth.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“God’s call to any man and the anointing of the Spirit for service are conditioned upon that man’s heart response.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“It is only the love of God shed abroad by the Holy Spirit that can cause effective repentance and cleansing—not simply Christian work or service, but the shining sweetness and fragrance of the love of Jesus Christ. It is this which touches a life that is out of adjustment to the will of God.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“We glory in our wonderful gospel of love and mercy for the unsaved, but we usually act as if we have no gospel for the saint who has been tripped up by the devil!”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man’s life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“The real question for us all is: Are we prepared to face sin? Not to discuss someone else’s sin, but to face our own; not to be appalled at the domination of communism, but to be appalled at the domination of the devil; not so much to be alarmed at juvenile delinquency, but to be concerned about our own delinquency. We need to hear the Spirit of God speak to us with such authority and in such a personal way as to drive us into a corner from which we must cry out for mercy, as He says, “Thou art the man.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“The little slogan, “Let go, and let God,” is not what the New Testament teaches—at least that is only part of the truth, for the act of total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ is but the beginning of a new régime in your heart. No longer is the puppet king Self upon the throne, but the great King of kings and Lord of lords has stepped in to take over the government of your life.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“Lord Jesus, we gladly crown Thee now! Lead us, O Thou great Shepherd of the sheep! Lead us, Thou great Captain of our salvation! We are Thine and Thine alone, and before the face of God our Father, in the name of the Holy Spirit our counselor, Lord Jesus Christ we bow to Thee, and we submit body, soul, and spirit. We are Thine forevermore, and we crown Thee King of all!”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“I want to make the issue crystal clear. There can be no possible doubt, according to the Word of God: either Jesus must be King, or He cannot be your Savior.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“What about your church prayer meeting? Is it tucked away somewhere because there is a busy program in operation and folks have no time to stop and pray? What would happen if your whole Sunday school gathered together for one hour to wait upon God, to beseech Him to pour out His blessing on your church? Too frequently our programs make no room for God’s presence or for His power to work. Churches have plenty of people ready to interfere, but very few willing to intercede.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“Many seem to think that, first of all, the Bible has to be explained, but that is not true. It has to be believed and obeyed! We fail to see the tremendous difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word. Conferences, rallies, missionary conventions, and church services come and go, and we remain unchanged. We are often just a group of unbelieving believers, perhaps never so well equipped, but never so poorly endued.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“If you begin with God, your enemies grow small. If you begin with enemy, you may never reach God. If you begin with Him, the problems begin to dwindle; if you begin with the problems, you never get through to God. “Selah”—think of that, and apply it to your life in your adversity and testing.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“So often multitudes of people gather around some broken cistern of this world, trying to satisfy their thirst for they know not what. They grumble about their troubles and complain about their lot, but how few of them run to the One who said, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37–38).”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“Perhaps your spirit is sour, cold, indifferent, and God asks what is wrong. He knows why you are like that, but He wants you to tell Him. He wants you to confess that you have feared and panicked, that you have questioned His purpose and plan for your life. You have doubted His Word and His promises, and you have failed to renew before God every day the anointing of His Spirit, so that you have become spiritually stale.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“But to doubt God and to question His motives causes our faith to shrink until literally we cease to be believers—we are believers in name, but not in practice or in action.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“This is the Lord of glory, dying amidst the scorn of the people He came to redeem. Think of Him in heaven with all authority in His hands and the angelic host around Him. Then look at Him hanging on a cross with the riff-raff of humanity sneering and gaping at him. When I realize that there He took my sin, the pollution and filthiness of my life, as if it were His very own, and then poured it into oblivion as far as the east is from the west, I say, “Lord Jesus, Thy love to me was wonderful!”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“He died for the ungodly, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. There wasn’t one lovely or good thing in any of us that could draw out love from the heart of a holy Savior—there was everything to repel. Yet the infinite God, the altogether lovely One, whose ideal of love surely is far beyond anything we could ever imagine, whose capacity for love is beyond our understanding altogether, He loved us and gave Himself for us.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“When I think of that story, my heart is stirred by a desire not only that I might have a Jonathan in my life—that is surely very wonderful, but very selfish—but also that I might find a David somewhere to whom I could be a Jonathan. Would you ask the Holy Spirit to make you a friend like that, to help you to cultivate in your life sanctifying disinterested, steadfast friendships? Oh, that the Lord might let us play a part in shaping and fashioning another life in the image of Jesus Christ!”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“The Old Testament, as you know, is full of pictures of New Testament truth. It is not only a book of history, though it is that, revealing to us the great seed-plots of God’s plan of redemption for the human race; it also illustrates many great truths later developed in the New Testament, setting them before us in pictorial language so that we may apply them in our hearts and daily lives.”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David

“way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Ps. 139:23–24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but”
― Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David