Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes. All my own desires and hopes and accept Your will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, utterly to You to be Yours forever. Fill me and seal me with Your Holy Spirit. Use me as You will, send me where you will, work out Your whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever. To me to live is Christ. Amen.
– Betty Scott Stam –
The ultimate goal of Jesus for His disciples was that His life be reproduced in them, and through them into the lives of others.
– Robert Coleman –
“My brother Wesley acted wisely,” Whitefield said. “The souls that were awakened under his ministry he joined in societies, and thus preserved the fruit of his labor. This I neglected, and my people are a rope of sand.”
– George Whitefield –
The “show business,” which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from our Lord’s conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.
– Oswald Chambers –
It is not enough to do God’s work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.
– Erwin Lutzer –
I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said to me: “Moody save all you can.”
– Dwight L. Moody –
Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life — tell them who God is.
– Paul Washer –
O Lord my God, in you I put my trust. Psalms 7:1
“O God, one day we will laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from you.”
– George Macdonald –
Ask missionaries (regardless of age – 12 or 112) and they’ll tell you they have one goal – God. God first. God last. God in all things. Not to go out and feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, make busy with conversion activity, but God first. With God as the goal, the homeless get a roof, the hungry get fed, the cold get warmed, the lonely get a friend, and the wanderer finds a way.
– Steve Case –