If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don’t know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.
We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man’s respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
A river reaches places its source never knows.
God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.
Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.
Don’t waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don’t do them.
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led – but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- – a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, “Ask.” It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don’t faint when you are rebuked, and don’t despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason – – these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.