Sometimes people talk about how they are “struggling with” certain things, or “working through” them, when what they really mean is that they are delaying obedience. “I have a problem with this,” they say, or, “I don’t feel comfortable with that yet,” meaning, “Who me? Disobedient?” . . . Obedience will very likely earn you nasty labels nowadays. There’s nothing new about that. Obedience has never been the route to popularity. The question is simply, who is your master?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.
– Arthur T. Pierson –
The closer a person is to God, the more terrible is the least sin seen to be.
– Rees Howells –
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee.
– Jim Elliot –
But we never can prove the delights of His love, until all on the altar we lay.
– Hymn: Trust and Obey –
The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing; Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives. Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural power… Brethren, this is what we must be, if this mighty Empire (China) is to be moved through us. But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation.
– Griffith John –
When God is at the center . . . people naturally make the right choices because they are listening to His voice rather than the voice of their own selfish desires.
– Leslie Ludy –
from Teaching True Love to a Sex at 13 Generation, 52-53
The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.
– DL Moody –
The world has not seen what God can do with a life fully yielded to Him.
The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him. I aim to be that man.
We shall not get revival by filling our churches with men, but by getting the men who already come to our churches filled with God.
– Duncan Campbell –