God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee.
– Jim Elliot –
Sourcing
March 27, 2012
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 –
March 26, 2012
I want to deliberately encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long in vain.
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God
March 25, 2012
It is not enough just to know about Christ, or to know about what He did for us, nor even to experience His work in us. What is needed is to experience Him in us . . .
– Walter Elwell –
from They Found the Secret (Edman), 11
March 24, 2012
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
March 23, 2012
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 –
While often attributed to D.L. Moody, the quote was actually given by Henry Varley in a conversation he had with Moody. Several renditions of the quote have been given:
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.
March 22, 2012
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 –
March 20, 2012
All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ’s demands.
– Oswald Chambers –
March 18, 2012
The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.
– T. Austin-Sparks –