I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me.
James Hudson Taylor
I am in great straits for funds. I am happy about it. The Lord may take away all our troublesome people through it and give us true-hearted ones instead.
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If we could offer to the ungodly a worldly plan which would ensure their prospering in all that they undertake, how eagerly they would embrace it! And yet when GOD Himself reveals an effectual plan to His people how few avail themselves of it!.
plans people
It was no vain or unintelligent act when, knowing the land, its people and climate, I laid my dear wife and the darling children with myself on the altar for this service.
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
purpose difficulties people
Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it amont them.
An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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life
If we are faithful to GOD in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
strength trials life experience
Work is the outcome of effort; fruit, of life.
effort life work
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!
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It needs the presence of special difficulties to manifest to all the workings of God's mighty power, and for such difficulties we may and should be grateful, and not cast down.
difficulties power
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
men power
With GOD all things are possible, and no conviction ever takes place save by the almighty power of the HOLY GHOST. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know GOD.
places power
Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
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Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.
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