God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.
What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.
God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.
The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.
Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.
If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.
Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.
The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.
Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women.
To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
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.
We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
All great Christians have been wounded souls.
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
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