Obedience

September 27, 2012

If there is any trouble in your heart, if you are in darkness, or in the power of sin, I bring to you the Son of God, with the promise that He will come in and take charge.

– Andrew Murray –
from his book Master’s Indwelling 

September 23, 2012

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every moment you believe to be the will of God.

– Jim Elliot –

July 16, 2012

It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it.  The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.

– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness

June 29, 2012

The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves. For he that keepeth himself subject in such sort that his sensual affections be obedient to reason, and his reason in all things obedient to Me; that person is truly conqueror of himself . . .

– Thomas a Kempis –
from The Imitation of Christ 

June 25, 2012

Self-denial surely means something far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!

– Hudson Taylor –

June 22, 2012

The moment the soul yields itself to obey [responds], the Lord Himself gives the strength and joy to do it.

– Andrew Murray –

June 19, 2012

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it and believe it.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

June 16, 2012

Beware of reasoning about God’s Word. Obey it.

– Oswald Chambers –
from Disciples Indeed 

June 12, 2012

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

– Oswald Chambers –
from Our Brilliant Heritage