Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.
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Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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