The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.
We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.
Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.
What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?
I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.
God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
Without worship, we go about miserable.
People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Man must choose his world
The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.
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