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

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  1. Jesus can only shine through you as you adhere to His Word.

 

  1.   Worry does not empty tomorrow of anything but it empties today of strength.(Corrie ten Boom)

 

  1.   The theme of the Old Testament is “He is coming!” .  The theme of the New Testament is “He is here!”

 

  1.   The war over your life today is just an indication of your value to God.. The attack you are sustaining is because you have the ability to score.

 

  1.   If your Vision for the future does not require God, it isn’t not from God.(Chuck Swindol)

 

  1.   Submitting to worldly authority has limits – we are not required to deviate from God’s moral code.(Swindol)

 

  1.   Hard times do not erase God’s promise.(Swindol)

 

  1.   Harsh treatment doesn’t escape God’s notice.(Swindol)

 

  1.   Never offer a thimbleful of Gospel when a gallon is available.

 

  1.   Chief cause of unrest are – pride, ambition, selfishness, wounded vanity and disappointed hope.

 

  1.   Two artist’s ideas of ‘Rest’ – (1) an isolated lake in the mountains.   (2) a thundering waterfall with a fragile birch tree bending over the foam; at the fork of the branch, just out of reach of the spray, a Robin sat on it’s nest.

 

  1.   You will never be the same again if you read the love chapter (1 Cor.13) every day for one month! 

 

  1.   The church of the time disowned Christ – the state’s crucified Him.

 

  1.   Reports of healing love flow with each smile we give away.

 

  1.   The commandments can be viewed as either a threat or a promise – either ‘you will  not steal’  or ‘you don’t have to steal, I (Jesus) have given you My Power not to.’

 

  1.   If you are in a car you can’t see it. Similarly if you are in the Will of God there’s no point looking for it.

 

  1.   If you want to walk with God, you must be willing to go His Way.

 

  1.   Listen for God’s directions – repentance is often the volume control.

 

  1.   God is never unscriptural – nor must we be.  (Derek Prince)

 

  1.   You have only been given the Power and Authority of God to do what He Calls you to do – don’t assume you have it for anything else.  

 

  1.   If you aim at nothing you are bound to hit it!

 

  1.   God hates compromise – be either hot or cold.

 

  1.   When evangelizing  Keep It Simple – use language a twelve year old could understand .  Don’t water down the Gospel or folk won’t really be Saved.

 

  1.   Discipleship is not an optional extra, it is the Christian Life.   

 

  1.   You can’t teach what isn’t real in your own experience.

 

  1.   A disciple of Christ is under the discipline of Christ.

 

  1.   Jesus said ‘Go’ – we tend to say ‘Come’.

 

  1.   We must get past religiosity into reality.

 

  1.   Being a Christian involves trusting, living with, and responding to a Person– Jesus Christ.

 

  1.   Knowing Jesus personally involves commitment and love and obedience to our Living Lord and Saviour.

 

  1.   Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find food.

 

  1.   Don’t hit people with a sledgehammer, that only dulls their hearing .

 

  1.   We deal with emotional creatures bristling with pride and motivated by vanity.

 

  1.   Only Service that comes out of Worship has any value.

 

  1.   God never Calls to a task without also supplying ability to carry it out.

 

  1.   To be ‘in step’ with God = to be out of step with the World.

 

  1.   The only door to the Kingdom is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

 

  1.   If we fudge the Truth we play the devil’s game.

 

  1.   Guidance from God springs from relationship with God.

 

  1.   There can be no unity with those who are not  abiding in Christ.

 

  1.   Faith = taking what God said seriously.(Derek Prince)

 

  1.   God’s Gifts are tools, not medals – tools get rusty if not used.

 

  1.   Don’t be worried about division – there will be division and conflict between those who go God’s Way and those who don’t.

 

  1.   Acts 17 – some were persuaded but not all.    

 

  1.   God’s Power is given in direct proportion to submission to Him.

 

  1.   The Talmud (the Rabbinical writings) are opposed to the Bible, though they say ‘in God we trust’-thousands of Jews go to pray for/to the Rabbinical tombs each year.   (Claude Ezegouri)

 

  1.   ‘Robe of Righteousness’ = robe of Humility.

 

  1.   A true Work of God is often difficult, becomes impossible and only comes to pass after we’ve been thrown on the Mercy of the Lord.

 

  1.   If the Lord is not with you, don’t move a step. God wants a Testimony to His Name alone.

 

  1.   The ‘problem’ with God is that He is not manageable, or reasonable, or a member of  your particular church.

 

  1.   Any fool can criticize and condemn and complain – it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

 

  1.   The prayers of the Righteous are short ( Rabbinical saying)

 

  1.   Don’t let your past strangle your future.

 

  1.   The opposite of love is not hate – its indifference.

 

  1.   Nowhere in Scripture did God allow His people to out-number  the enemy.

 

  1.   Every second 40 people go to Hell!.

 

  1.   The comfort of the Holy Spirit is to enable us to go where it is not comfortable.  

 

  1.   Trees don’t eat their own fruit – they bear fruit to feed others.

 

  1.   Simple unquestioning obedience to God is essential to receive His Blessing.

 

  1.   God looks for availability – not brilliance.

 

  1.   God is waiting for you to join Him in what He is doing at this moment . . . .

 

  1.   There is no such thing as an illegitimate child – only illegitimate parents.

 

  1.   We must live with the prospect of the unfinished task.

 

  1.   Faith is not belief without proof – but trust without reservation. (Elton Trueblood)

 

  1.   Holiness = essential, absolute purity.

 

  1.   Maturity = moving from a soft skin and tough heart,  to a tough skin and soft heart.

 

  1.   God may have promised to Save us but he doesn’t guarantee plain sailing – we may run aground on a sand bank and our ship may break up and we may have to escape on the wreckage. (Eg Paul & co. at Malta)

 

  1.   Joy is the flag flown in the heart when the Master is in residence.      

 

  1.   The 3 R’s of the Bible – Readable, Reliable, Relevant.

 

  1.   Desire is like a river – disaster lurks when  desire goes beyond the banks of God’s Will.

 

  1.   Satan will seek to give you what you lust after. . .

 

  1.   To be great is to be misunderstood – to be greater is to forgive the one who misunderstood.

 

  1.   A temptation may be an opportunity to satisfy a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.

 

  1.   Satan frequently tries to get us to take short-cuts to accomplish the Lord’s Will.

 

  1.   Satan says ‘If God loves you so much why hasn’t he met your need’.

 

  1.   The idols/gods we worship today are money, prestige, power, fame, social acceptance and success.

 

  1.   The Devil frequently changes his approaches and adjusts his tactics – unless we have the mobility to respond to these changes he will quickly trampled us underfoot.

 

  1.   God wins Victories through our praise.

 

  1.   God balances our lives for our good – so often ‘mountain top’ experiences lead to ‘valley’ ones (or the other way around)

 

  1.   ‘Tact’ is frequently nothing but the moral counterpart of hypocrisy.(Oswald Chambers)

 

  1.   Adaptability is the power to make a suitable environment for yourself out of any set of circumstances.

 

  1.   Pain is essential for growth in Christ.

 

  1.   If prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the Blessing of the New Testament. (Oswald Chambers)

 

  1.   Jesus Christ is Truth – He is the Gospel -  He is the Way to the Fatherhood of God.  (Oswald Chambers)

 

  1.   Study of God’s Word results in knowledge about God. Obedience to God’s Word results in knowledge of God.

 

  1.   Lord . . . anywhere . . .   any time . . . any cost . . .Amen.

 

  1.   It is possible to be free but to live as though enslaved! It is also possible to be enslaved but think you are free!!

 

  1.   If the Lord keeps you waiting, it is to be gracious to you. 

 

  1.   Jonah wanted to choose the  place for evangelism himself – we do not have that right.

 

  1.   New Testament Christianity is a thing of the heart.

 

  1.   Love must be tough. Respect precedes love. Love must be free. You can’t build love from obligation. Love is like a bird –   if you hold it too tight it will die, if you hold it too loose it will fly away. (Chuck Swindol)

 

  1.   The sanctified saint has to alter the horizon of other people’s lives. (Oswald Chambers)

 

  1. God’s Will is that we be holy on earth and happy in heaven.

 

  1. A text out of context is a pretext – (pretence)

 

  1.   God will Bless His plans – not our good ideas.

 

  1.   People pray when they see it ‘works’.

 

  1.   Street children in Guatemala don’t have any problem coming to Jesus – they do have a problem coming to church . . . . the church needs to change and treat them as ‘angels in disguise’ not as ‘refuse’.

 

  1.   Faith is like a muscle, it must be exercised to become strong.

 

  1.   Thanksgiving  = Spiritual warfare.

 

  1. Hope = Joyful, confident expectation of good

 

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