Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.
Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.
The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer.
Fellowship means among other things that we are ready to receive of Christ from others. Other believers minister Christ to me, and I am ready to receive.
An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God’s mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.