"My Utmost For His Highest"
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Let other things come and go as they may, let other people
criticize as they will, but never allow anything to obscure the life that is hid with Christ in God. Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him. (p 23)
The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. (p 38)
Get into the habit of saying, "Speak, Lord," and life will become a romance. (p 30)
Sanctification means intense concentration on God's point of view. Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. Are we prepared to say--"Lord, make me as holy as You can make a sinner saved by grace"?
Are we prepared to say--"Lord, make me as holy as You can make a sinner
saved by grace"? (p 39)
The one and only characteristic of the Holy Ghost in a man is a
strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, and freedom from everything that is unlike Him. Are we prepared to set ourselves apart for the Holy Spirit's ministrations in us? (p 39)
Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with
God? Then remain quiet. Don't talk to other people about it; don't read books to find out the reason of the darkness, but listen and heed. If you talk to other people, you cannot hear what God is saying. When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.(p 45)
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taking up with other
things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. (p 44)
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time. (p 52)
If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they
are being purified. . .One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. (p 53)
Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you
are not your own but His. (p 64)
The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the
steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. (p 66)
Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple
way. . .Many today are spending and being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him. . .Live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ. (p 69)
Pentecost did not teach the disciples anything; it made them the
incarnation of what they preached--"Ye shall be witnesses of ME." (p 70)
Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely into union with Himself. (p 73)
It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of
knowing Who makes us "go." (p 79)
When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and
liberty and delight, you ARE God's will, and all your common-sense decisions are His will for you unless He checks. You decide things in perfect delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are wrong He will always check; when He checks, stop at once. (p 80)
If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He does not ask you to put it right; He asks you to accept the light, and He will put it right. (p 83)
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. (p 83)
Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to
maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that. Only occasionally do we have to obey. (p 85)
Many of us are loyal to our notions of Jesus Christ, but how many
of us are loyal to Him?. . .Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way. (p 88)
It is not service that matters, but intense spiritual reality,
expecting Jesus Christ at every turn. (p 89)
After we have been perfectly related to God in sanctification, our faith has to be worked out in actualities. We shall be scattered, not into work, but into inner desolations and made to know what internal death to God's blessings means. Are we prepared for this? (p 95)
God is never in a hurry. (p 95)
God became incarnate for the purpose of putting away sin; not for
the purpose of Self-realization. (p 97)
The burden God places squeezes the grapes and out comes the wine;
most of us see the wine only. (p l05)
Beware of the thing of which you say--"Oh, that does not matter
much." The fact that it does not matter much to you may mean that it matters a very great deal to God. Nothing is a light matter with a child of God. . . Whenever there is doubt, quit immediately, no matter what it is. Nothing is a mere detail. (p l06)
We have no choice in what we want to do, whatever God's programme
may be we are there, ready. . . A ready person never needs to get ready. (p l09)
The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to
win the heathen; he IS useful and he DOES win the heathen, but that is
not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord. (p 267)
I remain loyal to His Name although every common-sense fact gives the lie
to Him, and declares that He has no more power than a morning mist. (p 292)
A Christian worker has to learn how to be God's noble man or woman amid a
crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea--If only I were somewhere
else! (p 299)
We put sensitive loyalty to relatives in place of loyalty to Jesus Christ
and Jesus has to take the last place. In a conflict of loyalty, obey
Jesus Christ at all costs. (p 27l)
The river of the Spirit of God overcomes all obstacles. Never get your
eyes on the obstacle or on the difficulty. (p 250)
It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for
Him. (p 243)
Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working
wonders in a man's disposition. (p 24l)
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