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I have gathered over the years – unfortunately often without noting the authors.

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  1.   A gemstone cannot be polished without friction, nor the child of God without adversity.

 

  1.   Security comes from knowing God never changes.

 

  1.   Tears are often the telescope by which we see into Heaven. 

 

  1.   God can mend a broken heart, but only if we give him every piece.

 

  1.   Prayer is not overcoming  God’s reluctance, but laying hold off his highest willingness. ( R.C.Trench)

 

  1.   Self-pity is a subtle form of unbelief.

 

  1.   The word of God is only powerless when unspoken.

 

  1.   The word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the mind and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. (But then, so are all the negative thoughts that you speak).

 

  1.   God’s Law always works – for or against you, depending on how you apply it.

 

  1.   At Pentecost the 120 did not become ‘sinners saved by Grace’ they became  ‘new Creations in Christ’.

 

  1.   Faith is a  seed. The way to plant it is to say it. Faith is the voice of authority. Be careful what you authorize things to do..

 

  1.   Your can be ensnared by the words of your mouth. Your words work for or against you, if you realize it or not. Eg.If you say ‘those people drive me up the wall’ they will, because Jesus said you can have what you say.

 

  1.   Before you make a confession that comes into your head, ask yourself “did that come from God or Satan?

 

  1.   Fear is faith in the Enemy’s ability.

 

  1.   When we speak negatively we break down what God may want to build up.

 

  1.   Don’t keep the boat of your life tied to tradition and past commitment. Push out into the deep – trust the Holy Spirit. to keep you afloat

 

  1.   You can’t have Isaiah 61:1 unless you’ve had Isaiah 6:1 first.

 

  1.   It’s not God all-matey but God Almighty.   

 

  1.   I never pray for fellow believers without first thanking God for them. If I cannot do that I feel it is better not to pray for them at all. (Derek Prince)

 

  1.   Must be prepared to lose a battle to win the war,  providing losing the battle doesn’t mean giving anyone a false impression of God’s word. 

 

  1.   God hears no more than the heart  speaks of – if your heart is mute, God is deaf.

 

  1.   If God gives you something – use it!
  2.   If He tells you to do something – do it!
  3.   If God is trying to change you – let yourself be changed.
  4.   Don’t fight with God – you might win!

 

  1.   Some are called to Battle (eg.David), some are called to Build. (eg.Solomon)   

 

  1.   There were many apparently good things that could have been done that Jesus never did, because they were outside the scope of the Father’ s Will for him . . .Jesus had not come  to do many good things – but to do the will of the Father. Eg. He saw a lame man begging many times, yet did not heal him. After Pentecost Peter and John brought that man healing in God’s perfect time.

 

  1.   Soulish Christians may labour hard and sacrifice much, but  the clearer light of Eternity will reveal that they ‘toiled all night and caught nothing’.

 

  1.   Most patients go to Doctors, and people go to church, looking for a way to continue living as they like without suffering the consequences.

 

  1.   We often wrestle against the very things God sends to Bless us and, like Jacob, we’ve often tried to throw away our Blessings.

 

  1.   A good idea is not necessarily God’s idea.

 

  1.   Many people today don’t have convictions – only opinions.

 

  1.   Hold on to the truth of God  – stay within the boundaries where God’s love can reach you and bless you. 

 

  1.   When those in a church are mournful and say they’ve found Life . .  you can’t help wondering . . .

 

  1.   Many people are too busy for God and tone deaf to the music of Heaven.(Bishop Gavin Reid)

 

  1.   Prayer – not saying prayers – but prayer which originates in God and is the activity of His nature laying hold of the implications of the cross and administering them – that praying defies analysis.

 

  1.   Your cross is where your will and God’s Will cross. It’s the place you die.  It’s the place you make the decision not to please yourself.(Charles Simpson)

 

  1.   It’s disastrous to grasp for a God given inheritance by carnal means.

 

  1.   The Greek for ‘wholeness’ = a ‘release from superior powers’.

 

  1.   The Message we proclaim is not dependant on the opinion of the  hearers. Proclaim the Message and if it is not accepted move on. 

 

  1.   Someone with experience is never at a loss against someone with a theory.

 

  1.   GRACE =  God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense.

 

  1.   God has a plan for your life. If you turn away he’ll bring you back to the place that you took the easy way out. (again and again if necessary) until you have faced the problem with Him in His Strength.

 

  1.   There is a big difference between being disabled and allowing bitterness and anger to cripple you.

 

  1.   Write your sins with a red pen – cover with red cellophane, to represent the Blood of Christ, and see  - as God sees - nothing.

 

  1.   A lot of junk food is served in our churches in a spiritual way.

 

  1.   Prayer should be like the tide – God’s Thoughts flow in  and ours flow out.

 

  1.    Take a short look at your problems and a long look at God.

 

  1.   A priest is never so happy as when he has a prophet to stone (W.R. Inge)

 

  1.   A priest’s authority comes from his institution, the prophet’s authority comes from God.

 

  1.   Faith that depends on prosperity is not genuine.

 

  1.   Joy is not the  absence of pain but the presence of God.  

 

  1.   With the loaves and fishes, Jesus didn’t ask for an increase. . . He just gave thanks to God. At Lazarus tomb he just gave thanks to God. No spiritual warfare – the manifestations came after thanks giving.

 

  1.   All true prophecy bears testimony to Jesus . . . . if it directs attention to anything but Jesus, its false.

 

  1.   Instead of struggling with the possibility of forgetting something – remember something else . . . .God.

 

  1.   Our ideas are not always God’s ideas – His are always best .

 

  1.   God wants to use you in your present weakness, in the place of your former strength, for His glory.

 

  1.   If you worry you are thinking God isn’t capable of caring for you!

 

  1.   Sometimes God allows us space . . .time to  just be  - don’t try to fill this valuable time with ‘things to do’.

 

  1.   Gods did not promise us smooth seas but a safe harbour.

 

  1.   I have fought, not because I like to fight but because sometimes, in upholding the cause of Christ, it takes a courageous stand and tremendous fight.  God made me able to do that. The external fights are one thing, the internal, spiritual fights are another . . . . of whether to satisfy burning personal desire or to do Christ’s Will. (from ‘My Journey into Altzheimers Disease by Robert Davis)

 

  1.   The pathway to deception is to refuse revelation

 

  1.   God does not commission men not filled with Holy Spirit to fight his Battles.

 

  1.   Many of the Lord’s Eagles have been influenced by the mood of the world and have assumed to the character of doves.

 

  1.   God does not want us to accept His Will because we must, but because we may; not with   resignation but with joy; not with absence of murmur but with song of praise.

 

  1.   God can be reckless with the physical safety of his children because spiritual issues are more important than security and prosperity.

 

  1.   On the battlefield the real enemy is fear, not bayonet or bullet.

 

  1.   Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, mighty weapon in a terrible conflict – the Battle against whatever is not God’s Will.

 

  1.   Prayer was never meant to be incidental to the Work of God it is the Work.

 

  1.   Supplementing our self-conceived ideas with prayer will not transpose them into divine purposings.

 

  1.   No school can compare with God’s School of hard knocks.

 

  1.   Self-preoccupation in prayer leads to discouragement  and depression.  The more prayers turn inward on our circumstances, the more the returns diminish. 

 

  1.   A familiarity with accepted prayer phraseology and an easy ability to handle it is one of the sinister   vampires that, all unawares, has fastened onto the prayer Ministry of the Church and  is sucking at its vitality.  The confidence we have in prayer must be fellowship with God and not familiarity with the right words      

 

  1.   Without God man cannot; without man  praying = God will not.

 

  1.   Authority is the right to act in a given situation – no assumed   authority will avail, only that which comes from God.

 

  1.   In God’s market, opportunity is spiritual in content . . .the danger comes when we allow it to be submerged under practical considerations.

 

  1.   All  opportunities on God’s list  have a fixed price  - sacrifice.

 

  1.   The way to Peace is not found in struggling against circumstances,  nor by trying to escape, but in accepting all that comes as the good, acceptable and perfect Will of God.

 

  1.   God will not do apart from prayer what He can do through prayer.

 

  1.   An escapist  generation reads security,  prosperity and physical well-being as evidence  of God’s Blessing. So when He puts suffering and affliction into our hands we misread His signals and misinterpreted His intentions .

 

  1.   The disciples wanted to get back to the comfy all-together  God in their midst situation. . .but  . .. their place was the ends of the earth with the wild beasts.

 

  1.   Why does God have to mediate His disciplines through the clumsy and unsympathetic hands of those we dislike and despise and whose authority and we resent? 

 

  1.   Christ’s mission was accomplished because the discipline was accepted – daily dying characterized his whole life.

 

  1.   If any preaching doesn’t come back to the Cornerstone  - beware.

 

  1.   God is not interested in what you have achieved – only in whether or not you did His Will.

 

  1.   Caleb was a gentile, and Joshua was a Jew – So Jew and Gentile went into the Promised Land together

 

  1.   God did not take a woman from man’s feet for him to walk all over her; nor from his head so she could lord it over him either;  but from his side, to walk alongside him to help him – from near his heart so he’d love and cherish her as Christ loves the Church.

 

  1.   Climbing the cliffs with Jesus needs total reliance on Him,   as only He  can see where the foot holds are.

 

  1.   The Word of God can be either accepted or rejected – not debated.

 

  1.   Love is the difference between a hospital corridor and a sitting room.

 

  1.   If we don’t like what we reap, we must change what we sow.

 

  1.   It’s often not what we say but how we say it that’s important.

 

  1.   The job of the preacher is to get the congregation emotionally and intellectually involved with the Word of God.

 

  1.   No one can be neutral when confronted by Jesus.

 

  1.   Light through a prism = seven colours,  only altogether are they white.

 

  1.   The Lord will not set any one free who does not admit they have a problem.

 

  1.   It’s only when we have confidence in what God can do that he will start to do it.

 

  1.   Darwinian evolution ... is basically materialistic philosophy disguised as scientific fact", (P.E. Johnson)

 

  1.   Life for some people is to sow wild oats during the week and then go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

 

  1.   Regret can be an appalling waste of energy – you can’t build on it so acknowledge your Sin, accept God’s  goodness and get on with living for His glory.

 

 

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