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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
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Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
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God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
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There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
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Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
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When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
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The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.
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Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.
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The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
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Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
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Never try to help God fulfill His word.