When God wants to bring more power into our lives, He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
A. B. SIMPSONAs long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.
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When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
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The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.
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Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
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The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural.
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Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus’ side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father’s sheltering throne.
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Before we can speak God’s message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
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We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
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There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer…the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
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Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
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Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
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You must have faith in God.
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Prayer is the link that connects us with God.
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As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
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Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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