Consecration

August 29, 2014

The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

– AW Tozer –

August 25, 2014

Be ready to cut off everything that would hinder, and cast it from you. Be ready and willing to suffer the loss of possessions, of friends, of health – of all things on earth – so you may enter into the kingdom of heaven.

– John Wesley –

August 22, 2014

…generally after each meal, we saw our father retire, and “shut to the door;” and we children got to understand by a sort of spiritual instinct (for the thing was too sacred to be talked about) that prayers were being poured out there for us, as of old by the high priest within the veil.

– John G. Paton –
Speaking of his father, James Paton

August 18, 2014

The clearer the line of demarcation between us and the world, the better.
The more thorough and entire our devotion to the Lord’s cause and service, the better.

– James Smith –

August 13, 2014

It takes me a long while to realize that God has no respect for anything I bring Him. All He wants from me is unconditional surrender.

– Oswald Chambers –

August 11, 2014

A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.

– Charles Spurgeon –

August 8, 2014

We rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God’s presence, without realizing the majesty and glory of the God whom we are approaching, and without reflecting upon the exceeding great riches of his glory in Christ Jesus, which we hope to draw? We must “think magnificently of God.”

– Anonymous –

August 7, 2014

It was not John Hyde: it was the Holy Spirit of God whom one consecrated man, filled with that Spirit, brought down upon all around him. May we not all become “Praying Hydes”?

– Anonymous –

July 8, 2014

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

– Elisabeth Elliot –