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Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Hudson Taylor

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
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Cost Divine True Worth
I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.
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Children Hard Myself Reading Trust Weakness Writing
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.
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God Help Himself Perspective Work
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
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Myself Prayer Reading Thinking Trust
Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.
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Element Faith God Need Religious Risk
Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
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Friendship Ourselves True Wife Worth
Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.
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God Himself Power Strength
You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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Faith God Greatness Need
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.
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Devil Movement Ourselves Prevent Slow
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
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God Himself Promise
Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.
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Consciousness Feeling God Life Myself Teaching
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
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Better God Gold Help Himself Rich Yourself
Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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Hungry Make Up Place Reality Soul
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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Action Believe Heart Leadership Prayer
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Greatness Need Ourselves Soul
But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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Faith Method Rest Strength Strive
Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
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Confession End Kindness Live Love Ourselves Trial
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
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Experience Faith God Life Serious Strength Trial
A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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Faith Gratitude Greatness Worth
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God’s omnipotency.
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Attempt God Limitation Ourselves Work
All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.
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Difficult Grace Love Manifestation Platform Power
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
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God Greatness Motivational Myself Practical
Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference…instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.
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Bond Failure God Greatness Liberty Live Quiet Victory Weakness
The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
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Life Lying Reality Satisfaction Secret Surrender Willing
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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Complaint Greatness Ourselves Spirit Trouble
As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.
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Answer Blessing Come Prayer Rule Spiritual
I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.
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Enough Faith God Himself Rest Small Thinking

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

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