Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
Consecration
Steep Yourself in the Word – Horatius Bonar
He that would be holy must steep himself in the Word, must bask in the sunshine which radiates from each page of revelation.
– Horatius Bonar –
1808 –1889
Power in Surrender – William Booth
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
– William Booth –
The Joy of Trials and Struggles – John Flavel
Have we not with joy observed how those very things that sense and reason tell us are opposite to our happiness have been the most blessed instruments to promote it! How has God blessed crosses to mortify corruption, wants to kill our wantonness, disappointments to wean us from the world! O we little think how comfortable those things will be in the review, which are so burdensome to present sense!
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
Guard Your Secret Life with God – Oswald Chambers
When a worker jealously guards his secret life with God the public life will take care of itself.
– Oswald Chambers –
Lose Your Life and Find God’s Love – Elisabeth Elliot
With what misgivings we turn over our lives to God, imagining somehow that we are about to lose everything that matters. Our hesitancy is like that of a tiny shell on the seashore, afraid to give up the teaspoon of water it holds lest there not be enough in the ocean to fill it again. Lose your life, said Jesus, and you will find it. Give up, and I will give you all. Can the shell imagine the depth and plenitude of the ocean? Can you and I fathom the riches, the fullness, of God’s Love?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
from The Path of Loneliness
Is there such a thing as a “carnal Christian”? – Leonard Ravenhill
Get rid of this bunkum about the “carnal Christian.” Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
A Heart Fit for Holy Duty – Thomas Watson
Sorrow and melting of heart fits us for every holy duty. A piece of lead, while it is in the lump, can be put to no use, but melt it, and you may then cast it into any mould, and it is made useful. So a heart that is hardened into a lump of sin is good for nothing, but when it is dissolved by repentance, it is useful.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
Sin and the Child of God – John R. W. Stott
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.
– John R. W. Stott –