I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.
weakness healing obedience
The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.
healing sickness sovereignty-of-god
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
healing
We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.
hell discipleship
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
world justice
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
prayer
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
christian-living prayer
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.
inspirational prayer
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
religious
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
inspirational spiritual common-sense
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
worry anxiety idolatry
insightful christian-living
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
judgement hypocrisy
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