Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
– Oswald Chambers –
Consecration
My Single Prayer – Charles Spurgeon
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Rights of a Christian – Oswald Chambers
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
– Oswald Chambers –
Natural and Expected Unholiness – AW Tozer
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
– AW Tozer –
Power From Christ – John Owen
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
– John Owen –
Perfect Peace with Complete Consecration – Watchman Nee
With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
– Watchman Nee –
Settler or Pioneer? – T. Austin-Sparks
The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing.
– T. Austin-Sparks –
God Takes Away the World – Thomas Watson
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
– Thomas Watson –
Darkness, Loneliness, and Trouble – Robert Murray McCheyne
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –