Sin is the greatest power in the world, with one exception, and this is the power of God.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Power
Living the Impossible Life – Bill Bright
The Christian life isn’t difficult, it’s impossible—without the power of the Holy Spirit.
– Bill Bright –
The greatest power in the world – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Sin is the greatest power in the world, with one exception, and this is the power of God.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Powerful surrender – William Booth
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
– William Booth –
Not looking for much from God – George Macdonald
O Lord my God, in you I put my trust. Psalms 7:1
“O God, one day we will laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from you.”
– George Macdonald –
Let the power of Christ rest on me – Thomas Chalmers
My God, Thou knowest my infirmities; and Thou knowest my desire to overcome them. Send forth Thy Spirit to help me in this warfare. Give me wisdom, O God, and the meekness of wisdom. Let the power of Christ rest upon me.
– Thomas Chalmers –
Elements of a Ministry of Power – Horatius Bonar
Nearness to Christ, intimacy with Him, assimilation of His character—these are the elements of a ministry of power.
– Horatius Bonar –
Paul’s greatest weapon – EM Bounds
Paul was a leader by appointment and by universal recognition and acceptance. He had many mighty forces in this ministry. His conversion, so conspicuous and radical was a great force, a perfect magazine of aggressive and defensive warfare. His call to the apostleship was clear, luminous and convincing. But these forces were not the divinest energies which brought forth the largest results to his ministry. Paul’s course was more distinctly shaped and his career rendered more powerfully successful by prayer than by any other force.
– EM Bounds –
Wrestling in Prevailing Prayer – Vance Havner
It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.
– Vance Havner –