The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
– William Booth –
Christian Life
The Purpose of the Holy Spirit – GW North
The Holy Spirit has come to make the life of Jesus Christ real in your flesh.
– GW North –
Lose Your Clutch on Everything Temporal – Jim Elliot
Father, let me be weak that I might lose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me lose the tension of the grasping hand. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by “harmless” longing … Rather, open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened—that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –
Christianity is Full Time – William MacDonald
The Savior is not looking for men and women who will give their spare evenings to Him—or their years of retirement. Rather, He seeks those who will give Him first place in their lives.
– William MacDonald –
Not What They Seem – William Booth
Look! Dont be deceived by appearances—men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
– William Booth –
Spend Your Life Well – Unknown
Your life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.
– Unknown –
Humility, Zeal, Love, and Focus – George Whitefield
God give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye—and then let men or devils do their worst.
– George Whitefield –
Mistaken – Warren Barfield
Oh I want all I am to die
So all He is can come alive
Until everyone I talk to hears His voice
And everything I touch feels the warmth of His hand
Until everyone I meet
Sees Jesus in me
This is all I wanna be
I wanna be mistaken
For Jesus
Oh I wanna be mistaken
– Warren Barfield –
Absolutely Abandoned to Jesus Christ – Oswald Chambers
Whenever our Lord talked about the relation of a disciple to Himself it was in terms of mystical union: “I am the vine [not the root of the vine, but the vine itself], ye are the branches.” We have not paid enough attention to the illustrations Jesus uses. This is the picture of sanctification in the individual, a completeness of relationship between Jesus Christ and myself. Pharisaic holiness means that my eyes are set on my own whiteness and I become a separate individual. I have the notion that I have to be something; I have not, I have to be absolutely abandoned to Jesus Christ, so one with Him that I never think of myself apart from Him. Love is never self-conscious.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Biblical Ethics