BIBLE NOTES
“THESE ARE QUOTES AND COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN AN
INSPIRATION TO ME OVER THE LAST 21 YEARS OF MINISTRY.
I TRUST THEY WILL BE A BLESSING TO YOU.” - REV.
DEAN BERG
BEFORE PREACHING, ALWAYS REALIGN
MY ATTITUDE TO THESE:
1. Walk above all carnal decisions and prejudices.
2. Whether I acknowledge it or not, bitterness will affect
my ability and it will eventually ruin me.
3. I can never minister in faith to someone I'm passing
judgment on.
4. Look diligently for bitterness or any other poison
that gets in my heart, which will trouble me and cause
others to be defiled. Heb. 12:15
5. Am I ministering by personal frustration or by the
Spirit of God I've been in fellowship with?
6. Ps. 106:32 - I'm not to allow their ulcers to give
me ulcers.
7. The Spirit of God will never minister condemnation,
but produces a cleansing effect.
8. Caring costs by the world's standards. Judging is cheap!
9. Each service is individual, move independently with
the Holy Ghost each time as I trust and reverence and
honor Him, He'll manifest Himself.
10. Need to rely on His ability and power, letting the
Greater One minister, not me.
11. Preach the gospel in simplicity without giving the
people a way out. Believe God! You're anointed! - The
ministry is not a right but a privilege!
12. Always respond to the Spirit of God, not some pattern
I'm set in.
I am to so immerse the people in
teaching as to immerse them into the name (nature) of
the Father Himself.
It's what I renew my mind with
regularly that will be effective in my life.
Preach by the Word what is fully
persuaded in my life.
A commitment is not a commitment
until I've finished doing it.
Preach what I practice. Preach
what I do. Preach what is real in my life.
If you say what someone else says,
you can only share it. But if you're speaking what God
has given you, then you can preach it.
Feed the people what they can take,
then they will become hungry for more.
I've been preparing all my life
for today.
3 STEPS TO UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURE:
1. What does it say (observation)
2. What does it mean (Interpretation)
3. How does it apply to life or to me (Application)
Always give your spirit an opportunity
to grow by giving it the first chance to answer each problem
or question before your thoughts or body gives their opinion.
If Satan can contaminate me then
he can keep the whole congregation from being blessed.
God doesn't want men controlling
ministries; He wants the Spirit of God to control it.
You might not be able to sing the
high notes or the low notes, but if you could sing just
one note, would you sing it for My glory? - Dennis Gerrard
No matter how many people are there,
preach not for what's in the crowd, but for obedience
to God.
People aren't always going to contribute
to your joy. You need to look somewhere else for your
joy. Try God for instance! You might like it. Ps. 100:2.
If you have joy, you'll have strength for any job.
WATCH OUT FOR THESE 3 KINDS OF
PEOPLE:
1. Super Spiritual
2. Super Sweet
3. Super Slick
Some people don't know the difference
between the supernatural and the spooky natural.
Prayer is not a monologue, but
a dialog. God and I talking together.
All spirits cry out, they do not
lie dormant. If they are not crying out to God, they are
crying out somewhere, to something.
When talking to God, always remember
who you are talking to.
I'm going through, Jesus, I'm going
through,
I'll pay the price whatever others do,
I'll take the way of the Lord's despised few,
I'm going through, Jesus, I'm going through. – Smith
Wigglesworth
Keep giving people the same Word
all the time. The people need it. Like potatoes - there
is potato salad, fried, mashed, etc. Keep giving them
the Word. - Kenneth E. Hagin
Laziness, extravagance, poor management
will defeat you. Make all you can, save all you can, give
all you can.
The way of faith is actually older
than the law, and it is the men of faith who are the true
children of Abraham.
To conquer fear, you must practice
your faith in your crisis moments. -Oral Roberts
Devil, you can't touch my life
for I minister in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. –Oral
Roberts
If a man's not happy and fulfilled
in what he's doing, He probably doesn't have the anointing
for it. - Dean Moffat
5 SIMPLE WORDS AS AN EXPRESSION OF A BELIEVING HEART:
1. I see it
2. I desire it
3. I expect it
4. I accept it
5. I trust Christ for it
In surrender: Let Him have all.
Give up your life to be as full of Him, of His presence,
of His will, of His service as He can make it. Give up
yourself to Him - not to be saved from disobedience, so
that now you may be happy and live your own life without
sinning and trouble - No, but that He may have you wholly
for Himself as a vessel and as a channel which He can
fill with Himself, with His life and love for men in His
blessed service. Let my will be utterly given up to God's
will.
DECEIT: That which gives a false
impression, whether by appearance, statement or influence,
is said of riches in Mt. 13:22; Mk. 4:19; Heb. 3:13. Lust
is excited by deceit. Deceit is the source of its strength.
Lusts are not deceitful in themselves. Eph. 4:22
The joys of our future will destroy
the sorrows of our past.
Do ask God to open your eyes and
bring you to know His will for yourself. Do beware lest
the secret fear of having to give up too much, of having
to become too peculiar and entirely devoted to God, keep
you back. Beware of seeking just enough religion to give
ease to conscience and then not desiring to do and be
and give God all He is worthy of. And beware, above all,
of "limiting God," of making Him a liar by refusing
to believe what He has said He can and will do. - Andrew
Murray
The Spirit Himself is not small,
but might be small on His influence you allow in your
life.
We must walk from the inside out
and not from the outside out.
An unsound mind is a mind that
controls the life and actions. A sound mind is a mind
in submission to the Spirit of God.
This is not Professional Christianity
where we punch the conscience time clock.
How much of who I am today is a result of what God has
put in me, and how much is a result of what man or the
world has put into me.
Obedience is doing what must be
done, how it must be done, when it must be done and doing
it that way every time.
A word to the wise is sufficient:
The school of experience is good but the tuition is high.
When God calls you to a vision
it's yours whether it looks like it or not.
It is always more profitable to
believe rather than doubt. Have confidence and faith that
what you're preaching is accomplishing what it’s
set out to do!
Faith is not something you try
to believe; faith is something you can no longer doubt.
Faith is the radar that sees through
the fog. - Corrie Ten Boom
Faith is living our life by what
we see in our heart from the Word of God we've heard,
rather than living by what we see happening around us.
The Gospel is the evidence from
God, which cannot be seen.
Where the Holy Ghost is not in
manifestation I doubt that He is there. - Smith Wigglesworth
Sin has made us workers; grace
has made us trusters. Sin dethroned the spirit of man
and has crowned the intellect. - Kenneth E. Hagin
When man comes to recognize the
dominance of the spirit, he'll live in the realm of the
supernatural with out effort. He's learned to trust in
God. - Kenneth E. Hagin
When we make adjustments of conscience
to accommodate momentary convenience, we tear down the
foundations of character.
Strong convictions come from a
sensitive conscience enlightened by right beliefs. When
we tamper with conscience it's like messing with a compass
and we get off course. - Kenneth E. Hagin
The hunger for the supernatural
is a manifestation of man's longing for contact with an
unseen God.
If you'll walk in the power of
the Word you will defeat the natural, whereas if you try
to do things in the natural you will defeat the power
of God.
The natural man must know in order
to believe, the spiritual man must believe in order to
know.
We do not need to prove the Bible
first and then accept it; we accept it and then let it
prove itself.
Divine health is a lot easier to
walk in than divine healing is to obtain.
Human knowledge needs to be understood
to be loved. Divine knowledge needs to be loved to be
understood.
The extent of the control that
your inward man has over the outer man, that's how mature
your spirit is.
Faith in action causes us to do
the impossible and the unreasonable.
Life is a series of opportunities
cleverly disguised as impossible situations.
Did you know that what looks to
be a problem is a greater miracle?
If you've got a church that's short
in an area (health, finances, etc.) it's because you're
not teaching on it.
First impressions are the best
impressions. Consider this to be a rule of thumb. Unless
otherwise led.
True guidance is moment by moment.
We can bring hope into focus and
push it with faith and your imagination will become reality.
I don't work to meet my needs,
I work to please my Father. My God shall supply all my
needs according to His riches in Glory.
You will not die before you become
what God says is to be done. God will tell you where to
go and what to do. Judges 6:14
All we can do for the Lord is hinder
Him. We don't do great works because of what we've done
but because of what God is doing through us.
I have a covenant with God and
as I do my part God will do His. For it is when I know
who I am as they did (Josh. 10:8-11) that all heaven is
behind me backing what I do and say in the name of Jesus.
Grace is not unmerited favor -
unmerited favor is mercy. Grace is what brings me out
of it again.
(Finances) To the degree of faith
you're able to call it in is the degree to which you're
able to handle it.
Prayer does not cause my faith
to work. It is my faith that causes my prayers to work.
Scripture was not written to increase
our knowledge but to guide our conduct.
Don't let circumstances affect
the word of God coming out of my mouth. The Word of God
coming out of my mouth will affect circumstances.
Faith in a decision is what makes
it work. Not whether or not it’s the best decision.
The road to hell is paved with
good intentions.
God won't do anything in your life
unless you permit Him to.
Man lives by every word that proceedeth
out of his mouth by God.
If we have enough confidence to
have faith in man, how much more shall we have faith in
God?
Am I making plans to succeed or
am I living a cop-out to get by.
You can never walk on the water
till you get out of the boat.
To the degree it comes out of your
heart is the degree it is in your heart.
Jesus never doubted His word. When
He spoke to the tree, He knew it would die.
Have you come to Jesus or have
you come to church?
Give me a challenge and I'll meet
it with joy.
God's Word is not intimidated by
mountains, but mountains are intimidated by the Word of
God.
You have to examine yourself tonight
to see whether you are in the faith, or only talking faith.
The resources of God are waiting
for the man who will not seek his own.
You can so live in the presence
of God that immediately when Satan's powers present themselves,
you shall discern them.
Purity is vital to faith.
The most staggering condition of
helplessness which could ever be brought before you is
your chance for God to use you.
If you ane to increase in the life
of God, then you must settle it in your heart that you
will not at any time resist the Holy Spirit.
The devil always comes to try you
in your weakness, but we should not forget that we are
stronger in our weakness than in our strength if we dare
believe.
When Jesus contested the devil
in the wilderness, all the demon powers, the wild beasts,
and all that was in the wilderness had a vision of the
most incredible man that ever lived.
Oh, to be so laid hold of by the
Holy Ghost that you have no choice. You have your choice,
but you won't choose. God must choose for you.
Psychological development will
enable a child to live in society and earn a living. Spiritual
development will enable him or her to understand the real
meaning of life.
Many people have been religiously
brainwashed instead of New Testament taught.
"Faith is revealed in Word
and action."
Great faith comes out of great
tests and great trials. - Kenneth E. Hagin
Great victories come out of great
battles. - Kenneth E. Hagin
Faith is what you are speaking.
Mk. 5:28, 34
You can say it with your mouth
and believe it in your heart but it’s got to be
in line with God's Word.
God's Word will always work for
everybody!
When it comes to the place where
we have to encourage believers to believe, it's a result
of the Word of God losing its reality in our lives.
If I'm believing God for something,
I need scripture to stand on. Faith can only begin where
the will of God is known. - Kenneth E. Hagin
If I stand on "nothing in
particular" in the scripture, that's what I'll get
"Nothing in particular". - Kenneth E. Hagin
I must listen to the voice on the
inside, not the outside. Shut out all else. I must learn
the difference between voices.
The Holy Spirit knows how to pray
me out of things I should be out of and into things that
I should be into. He knows how to do the same with my
children.
Faith never struggles, it rests.
If you put the Word of God in you
when you don't need it, the Spirit of God will bring it
back to you when you do need it.
If you don't belong to a local
church you're disobedient and unfaithful to the scriptures.
From the time of the asking to
the time of the receiving, faith sees no pitfalls.
The Abraham and Jesus kind of faith
never gets nervous and it never wonders.
A lot of Christians make decisions
but they don't have the determination to back it up.
Jesus put the world first and himself
second.
It's not just enough to be a good
Christian and love the Lord; you've got to obey God.
Jesus never said something just
to hear his brain rattle or to hear His tongue flap.
If you don't have your inner man
built up, the devil will make a fool of you.
Jesus had the Word in Him a long
time before Satan ever hit Him and you better do likewise.
People that don't speak the Word
live by bread and water.
The worst thing you ever did with
your life was confess what's wrong with you.
People get all happy and emotional
over hearing the Word, yet never get serious about God
enough to do anything about it.
When it comes to the Word, you
don't think nothing, you either know or you don't know.
The only way out of poverty is
to give your way out. If there were any other way He would
have told us.
Faith is possessing the thing you
hope for.
Within the Word is the way to obtain
the most perfect faith in God.
There is one thing more beautiful
than miracles. - Jesus
All a man of faith needs to know
is that God has spoken!
Faith does not wait for the walls
to fall down; faith shouts them down!
If I could buy a man for what he's
worth, and sell them for what they think they're worth,
I could make a fortune.
Grace: God's willingness to use
His power on my behalf!
God won't show me His willingness
until I find out His will. When you know that God will,
then God's willing. If you're in doubt about God's willingness,
then God won't.
My faith is in the Word! Not in
my prayer!
Faith doesn't wait. Faith takes.
It's not a color problem between
blacks and whites, etc. It's a devil problem.
You cannot believe beyond actual
knowledge.
I'd rather set my goals high and
reach half of them than set them at nothing and reach
all of it.
Great faith cometh from great tests.
Great victories come from great battles.
It's important for us to have a
Bible sized God and a Bible sized devil.
When you're willfully ignorant
of the word you'll be judged.
Most great truth comes out of sorrow
and suffering.
I'm not gonna tell God how big
my mountains are. I'm gonna tell my mountains how big
my God is.
Mountain, I speak to you in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You defeated me once, you
defeated me twice. But I'm gonna defeat you cause you
can't get any bigger, but I can.
If what Jesus said is true, then
me getting my prayers heard and answered depends more
on me than it does God. - Bro. Hagin
I don't care what my neighbors
think. They don't care what I think. - Kenneth Copeland
It's possible, it's easy, because
God is big. - T.L. Osborn
Preach faith until you have it.
Then because you have it, you will preach it.
Faith is a transaction that you
believe you get.
Some people's minds are like cement,
thoroughly mixed up and well set. - Bro. Hagin
If you can find in the Bible your
answer, then there's no reason for God to speak to you
anyway else. - Bro. Hagin
Limit is not on His willingness
to give but on our ability to ask and our capacity to
believe.
What you are speaks so loud I can't
hear what you say.
What you're not up on, you're down
on.
I must build the word into my spirit,
before I pray, until there's no doubt there.
As long as you're alive, you'll
deal with 3 areas: the flesh, the devil and the world.
Crucify the flesh, resist the devil, and love not the
world.
Prayer begins by talking to God,
but it ends by listening to Him.
In a world that hopes for the best,
Jesus Christ is the best hope.
I like not only to be loved, but
to be told I am loved.
You're only as big as the problem
that gets you down!
It makes all the difference whether
one sees darkness through the light or brightness through
the shadows.
Some people are riding the streetcar
of self-confidence on a downward plunge to destruction.
Vision without commitment is dead!
Dreams and Commitment are two different things. Vision
directs you toward change but its commitment that causes
those changes to come to pass.
Looking back stops forward progress.
Vision without commitment is dead! It's one thing to be
inspired but its another thing to be dedicated to something.
Live or die, sink or swim, go under
or go over, I'm committed to it!
Most ministers are trying to build
their ministries instead of trying to build the kingdom.
Jn. 3:27-29. Get our eyes off of what we're gonna do and
get our eyes on what Jesus is gonna do. Seek that you
may excel to the edifying of the body.
In a situation when the Word of
God comes to your mind, act on it before you reason it
out.
Prayer won't heal anybody. The
prayer of faith will! James 5:14-15.
Sickness and disease is the foul
offspring of his father the devil and of his mother, sin.
- John Alexander Dowie
CONFESSION DOES 3 THINGS FOR THE
BELIEVER:
1. Locates Him
2. Fixes the landmarks of our life
3. Mightily affects your spirit
Authority is delegated power. The
value of authority depends upon the force behind the user.
Lk. 10:19.
A lot of problems exist because
we're not doing anything about them. Mt. 18:18. Its not
bound in heaven until its bound on earth.
If you let your mind dominate you,
it will lead you back into spiritual death. It will lead
you back into sickness, etc, defeat.
God is the giver of energy. - Smith
Wigglesworth
Any dedicated man is a misunderstood
person. - Lester Sumrall
Worry! If it continues, it cuts
a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
The call of God is like fire, it
will consume you.
Faith is the eyes by which we see
and enjoy what others cannot see and enjoy.
Faith is to the spirit man what
your eyes are to the natural man.
Christianity is not man making
things happen. Christianity is God performing His Word.
God can't finish anything He hasn’t
started.
Ultimate Commitment: It's not what
my church can do for me but what can I do for my church.
God is not a lieutenant. He's a
General! There's a big difference!
Prayers not gonna get me out, God's
gonna get me out!
Some read the Bible in Greek, some
read the Bible in Hebrew, I'd rather read the Bible in
the Holy Ghost! The original interpretation.
A will unused is a will owned.
Time unused will find a sinner
Your dreams will always be opposed
by someone.
Poverty is the starting point for
prosperity.
A consistent, persistent will to
believe strengthens faith.
Hope is a favorable and confident
expectation.
Faith is you having knowledge of
God and acting on it.
Your desires through your disciplines
can become your delights.
The light that shines farthest
shines brightest nearest home!
The supreme task of the church
is the evangelization of the world!
There's a room in the Spirit where
the flesh is not welcome!
If you disobey God along one line,
it's very easy to disobey God along another line!
I AM SATAN'S PERSONAL NIGHTMARE!
I am not going to let doubt or
unbelief defeat me. Doubt and unbelief are of the devil.
Faith and love are of God. I walk in love and I walk by
faith.
If you're walking with God when
promotion comes nothing can stop it.
Look pressure in the face. Make
a decision and put the pressure back on people.
Some things take time. Because
of God? No. Because of people.
All sin is downgrade and gravity,
and all faith is a lifting place into the admiration of
God. - Smith Wigglesworth
There is condemnation that comes
to us if we know that we ought to be further on in the
race than we are. - Smith Wigglesworth
Your ministry will never be bigger
than your vision of Jesus. - Patty Hammond
Faith is to believe what we do
not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we
believe.
Faith is the latchstring to God's Great Supply Souse.
If you go after souls, miracles
will follow!
God specializes in things thought
impossible!
What your hope is established on
is what you're looking at!
Prayer never obtains anything from
God unless faith is present. And again, faith never receives
anything from God unless prayer makes a petition. - Kathryn
Kulman
It is only through prayer that
the soul can establish communion with its Creator, and
it is only through faith that spiritual victories are
won.
Prayer knocks at the door of grace
while faith opens it.
Prayer makes a petition while faith
presses through the multitudes to touch the hem of His
garment and receives from His giving hand.
Prayer quotes the promises, while
faith boldly proclaims the fulfillment of that promise.
If you believe in something you'll
talk about it. For you can't help but to talk about what
you believe in, whether it's good or bad. What you talk
about is what you believe.
One of the fundamental requirements
of Divine Healing: complete and unqualified expectancy
that healing will take place
No matter how widely we may differ
in life, we all come together at the grave!
A victorious Christian is a Christian
that is determined to make it.
Will: Act or process or experience
of choice.
God can't confirm a choice unless
we make it.
God is so big He fills the universe,
but He's small enough to live in my heart.
Sometimes in discussing Bible truths
it's like climbing a mountain. Well, which side is right?
That depends which side of the mountain you're on.
Neglected opportunities brings
regrets. So take advantage of opportunities.
I don't base my ministry on money;
I base my ministry on helping people.
It's one thing to pray for the
sick, its another thing to minister healing to the sick
and it another thing to operate in the gifts of the Spirit.
If a scripture hurts you, read
it until it does good. - Smith Wigglesworth
We determine the size of our God
by our asking. We determine the size of our God by our
believing.
God will change your destiny if
you'll allow Him to.
When God appoints you, nobody can
disappoint you!!!
If you think you're perfect, please
stand up. It wont' take us long to show you where you're
wrong.
I'd rather set my goals high and
get half of them than set them low and get all of them.
Joy is the most unmistakable evidence
of the presence of God in someone's life!
The Bible is so simple you have
to find someone to help you misunderstand it.
It doesn't make any difference
what you have done, it's what you do afterward that counts.
Never do anything that you don't
want to do or that God didn't tell you to do.
He is no fool who gives up what
he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose.
I believe in a topless heaven,
a bottomless hell, eternal salvation, and everlasting
damnation. - Charles Spurgeon
If your heart be as my heart give
me your hand. - John Wesley
In all giving of our resources
to the cause of God, we must remember that the value of
the gift depends upon the motive of the giver. Read Ex.
25:2.
If you speak the truth you'll show
forth righteousness but if you speak a lie you'll be deceived.
If you abide in me and my Words
become who you are, you shall ask what you will and it
shall be done unto you.
The definition of prayer is fellowshipping
with the Father.
Faith is not something you have
to get; faith is something God has already given you.
The compass of the leading of the
Lord is many times manipulated by the magnet of the human
will. (Like using a magnet to manipulate a compass) -
Bro. Hagin
Joy is not the absence of suffering,
but the presence of God.
Unbelief means a refusal to be
persuaded more than it means an inability to believe.
Make God your only joy and He will
give you what your heart desires.
If we accept at face value the
words of Jesus in Mt. 18:1-14, as referring to children
specifically (though principles may certainly apply to
others as well), we must conclude that Jesus made the
growth and development of children's faith a priority
concern of the church, on a level with evangelism. Churches
that relegate children's ministries to a low level of
priority do so against the expressed will of Jesus. We
need to reevaluate our programs to see if we are receiving
children as we would receive Jesus Himself.
Do you want someone to take care
of your child, or do you want your child to experience
God?
True prosperity is the ability
to use the power of God to meet any need in any realm.
Discipline is something we do for
a child, not something we do to a child. Discipline is
an act of love. Proper discipline always brings repentance
not rebellion. There is a big difference between punishment
and discipline.
The ministry is a means to an end,
not an end in itself. This end is the qualitative and
quantitative growth of the kingdom of God. God didn't
call me to be in the ministry just so I could be in the
ministry but so the body could increase in quality and
quantity.
A lot of people want God to speak
to them, then they don't listen to what He says. That's
the reason He quits speaking to them.
The secret to the success of the
Apostles ministries: Full of faith, full of power, using
the supernatural instrument of divine compassion and soul
travail.
Humility is not thinking less of
yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.
As much evidence of the "Big
Bang Theory", as there is, it would be like placing
a ton of dynamite in a junkyard, blowing it up and assembling
a 747.
5 STEPS TO DEMON POSSESSION:
1. Regression from life, people, etc.
2. Depressed
3. Oppression (gloom, doom, agony)
4. Obsession (lusts, etc.)
5. Demon Possession
5 STEPS UP:
1. New Birth
2. Expression
3. Adoration (Love)
4. Communication with Heavenly Father on same level as
friend
5. Divine Revelation (His revealing revelations) He's
revealing Himself in new forms and new ways. (This is
the life in the Spirit.)
Be selfish. Be utterly selfish
for your own spiritual prosperity. Let nothing turn you
aside. Have a one-track mind. (Prov. 4:25) Guard your
speech and let your words be few - yea, be utterly selfish
and concentrate on your progress in the spirit.
Let it be a fast of words, speaking
only necessary words. This is your discipline. Bring your
speech under rigid control, become master of it. Then
thou shalt have joy unspeakable. - Grace Ryerson Roos
4 PROBLEMS IN MARRIAGE, WHICH EVERYTHING
SURROUNDS:
1. Religion
2. Sex
3. Children
4. Money
Faith always has a good report.
Doubt always has an evil report.
Let us care for the obedience;
God will care for the blessing. Let my one thought as
a Christian be how I can obey and please my God perfectly.
It is when I know who I am that
all heaven is behind me backing what I do and say in the
name of Jesus.
You can't take what a man does
as doctrine unless it holds and conforms to the Word throughout
the Bible.
God loves His people. He will show
mercy and forgiveness before His wrath falls.
The moment Nehemiah began to do
what he thought God had called him to do, he faced opposition.
The guy that's not expecting trouble is the guy that has
to pick himself up off the ground.
Fruit is something someone else
can eat and taste and see that the Lord is good. So you
cannot be rotten. They can see if you're ripe enough to
eat. But even just standing there your leaves will be
bright and healthy and everyone can see that you're living
on good nourishment. It shall be clearly seen and easily
seen that you are different.
The Secret Place does not change.
It is stationary for God is stationary; He does not change.
If any changing is being done, it's being done on our
part.
If you are not walking with God you will trust everything
but God.
Legalism adds a sign above the
cross, which reads: "Necessary but not enough!"
The kingdom of God does not have
any secret agents.
Jesus never ministered because
He was the Son of God for He emptied Himself of that power.
He ministered under the anointing.
You're not gonna get anybody healed,
him believing he's gonna die, and you believing he's gonna
live. There's no agreement.
Divorces are caused because of
people choosing to remain hardened rather than forgiving
and loving.
We're all equal no matter what
we do. We're all the same body. No matter how long we've
been in the body.
If you've got the love of God in
your heart, you don't need any other commandment or law.
Clean up the spirit man and the
outward man will take care of itself.
Communion is a reminder to us of
what Jesus did for us, what He is doing for us, and what
He will do for us throughout eternity.
If you know God will, then God's
willing. If you doubt God's willing, then God won't.
Negative words affect how we think.
Many people are held back today
because they are surrounded by so much unbelief.
I should have such a quest for
excellence that everything I do, I do the best, with all
I have. Do all that you do excellently. If it's worth
doing, it worth doing right.
My faith is put into motion either
by word or by action.
We cannot believe beyond actual
knowledge. Faith begins where the will of God is known.
All that I am today and all that
I have today is a result of what I said yesterday, or
didn't say yesterday.
The world I live in is a result
of how I made it. The faith I put forth framed it.
The limit is not on His willingness
to give but on our ability to ask and our capacity to
believe.
Pray the desire not the problem.
Faith will work in your heart even
if you have doubt in your head.
Be quick to repent and forgive.
Be quick to believe.
The prayer of faith always ends
with the glad confession, "It's mine, I have it now."
Even when you doubt you still believe
something. It's just the wrong thing.
People put up defense mechanisms
to avoid getting hurt again yet inside they are still
bruised and if they can't apply the healing power of God
they stay bruised.
If you don't hunger, you won't
be filled. Fight for that hunger.
Healing is a mercy.
Religious people are demanding.
Neither apostasy nor revival is
predestined in the plan of God. Man is free to claim the
promises of God or to draw back and fail to enter in,
just as the children of Israel were free to enter Canaan
but chose to remain in the wilderness.
Jesus is the life giving substance
to dead individuals.
"I'm a Christian, I can do
what I like." If you're sinning, you're not doing
what you like; you're doing what sin likes. You are a
servant to sin. You are copping out. If you are in sin,
you are not free. Habits and pleasures have you all wrapped
up.
Truth will set you free; untruth
can put you in bondage.
Knowing and acting on the truth
will make you free.
If I don't obey, it means I either
don't love God or my love isn't matured yet to where it
should be.
In order for prayer to work, it
must be based on the word. Find scriptures that promise
you what you're believing for.
The ascension of Christ is followed
by the descension of the Spirit, and the descension of
the Spirit is followed by the extension of the gospel.
- Leon Tucker
Faith will bring deliverance within
reach to us down here. Doubt and unbelief will put it
off out yonder somewhere.
We shall be judged according to
the truth of the Word of God.
When you know God, you either seek
after the knowledge of Him or reject Him altogether and
at that point you become foolish and your heart darkened.
God judges according to the works
of the flesh if you are not born again. You must stand
on human works, instead of the works of Christ. God will
judge by His word and not how man thinks He will.
You reject the grace of God by
judging people. By judging them, you're doing the same
things they are. Judge the sin, not the person. Look beyond
it.
God praises the man who is circumcised
in the heart, not in the flesh. Man in the flesh can be
praised by other men all he wants, but that gets him nowhere
with God.
Look at the circumstances and put
them up against the Word. The Word will see you through.
Once born again, we no longer face
God's wrath, but are disciplined by His love.
We spend almost our entire lives
in the mental and the physical realms.
Satan has no more dominion over
the Christian than Pharaoh had after the children of Israel
crossed over the Red Sea.
When you are out of fellowship,
sin becomes the master. Evil is present but I determine
who's in control.
Knowledge brings freedom.
Feeling is the voice of the body.
Reason is the voice of the mind. Conscience is the voice
of the spirit.
If I understand God's love it will
radically affect my life.
You need to renew your mind before
you can do the will of God. But you need to walk in holiness
before you renew your mind.
There is no difference between
a sinner and a carnal Christian in outward appearance.
Sin keeps you from operating spiritually. The Holy Spirit
will not speak if you are carnal.
Read all good books on faith and
healing that you can and feed on that. - P.C. Nelson
If you wait till you need faith
to get it, you're too late. - Smith Wigglesworth
Through your faith, you'll find
your way out of any situation.
Ministry given to me is an act
of God's mercy to me and the individuals to whom I will
minister. It's not because of who I am or anything I've
done.
We need to become so God conscious
that we know He's always there looking at our hearts,
because He is always looking.
Things that are seen are not the
things that will satisfy!
To walk in the Spirit is to walk
in holiness. It's a decision. I can walk in the fruit
because I have the Holy Spirit.
If God's commendation is upon me
and my ministry, it doesn't matter what I look like on
the outside or whether or not I fit up to others standards
- I will be used of God.
God creates the answer before the
problem exists. I was called redeemed before sin was an
issue.
Go to the cross, but don't stay
there. Come on up to Pentecost, but don't stay there.
Come on up and sit down! He's made us sit together!
It's up to me to develop the gift,
but He is the One who gave it.
Faith is a transaction that you
believe that you get.
Satan has no right over me unless
I go over into the power of darkness and live there. Stay
in the light for Satan has no right to invade the light.
If things aren't working out it's
because someone's not living like they should.
If my light gets dim, I'll be out
running around not knowing which way to go.
If you are in rebellion, you have
submitted to the spirit of antichrist.
Unbelief means refusal to be persuaded
more than it means inability to believe.
Rest is not rest from work, but
rest in work.
The Secret Place is the place of
the most boldness.
Something hoped for is not faith.
Hope is a favorable and confident
expectation.
Faith comes from hearing the Word
of God. Unbelief comes from hearing the theories of men.
Hope sets the goal for what we
really like. Hope can't bring it to pass - faith does.
Faith is the title deed to God's
provision.
When you are out of the Secret
Place you are a moving target for the devil.
COMMUNION WITH GOD [top]
The world has yet to see what God will do with and for
and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly
consecrated to Him. I will try my utmost to be that man.
-Dwight L. Moody
“If your heart takes more
pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to
the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting
alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and
His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how
are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...?
You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic
about God now!” -Keith Green
“ It seems to me that there
are but few who really live with a passion for God-especially
a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such a noise
coming up before the throne of the Most High-the clamor
of so-called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But
I wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout,
loudly exclaiming the the praises of God, really have
such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord.
When the meeting’s over and there’s no one
there to listen except the only One who matters, do you
still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just
to be alone with the Living God?” - Keith Green
“We must wake ourselves up!
Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross,
and thereby rob us of our crown.” -General William
Booth
Meister Eckhart, a wise medieval
spiritual director, once said, “God is at home;
it is we who have gone out for a walk.” -Source
unknown
“Closet communion
needs time for the revelation of God’s presence.
It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to
find time.’ You must find time or forfeit blessing.
God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep
for communion with Him.”
“All practical power over
sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion.
Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves
mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war
for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know
His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment
and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for
Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They
watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and
read His signals.” - A. T. Pierson
"Am I robbing God of time?
How easy to do, and how impossible to repay! We have lost
the sacred art of spending time with God, and nothing
else can ever take its place. No repentance however deep,
no restitution however costly, no sorrow however complete,
can do away with the necessity for a daily time of sacred
quiet, alone with God." (Keswick 1946) – Gordon
M. Guinness
"All practical power over
sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion.
Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves
mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war
for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know
His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment
and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for
Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They
watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and
read His signals." - A. T. Pierson
"Our power in drawing others
after the Lord mainly rests in our joy and communion with
Him ourselves." - J. G. Bellett
"Live near to God, and so
all things will appear to you little in comparison with
eternal realities." - Robert Murray M’Cheyne
"On the mountains, torrents
flow right along, cutting their own courses. But on the
plains canals have to be dug out painfully by men so that
the water might flow. So among those who live on the heights
with God, the Holy Spirit makes its way through of its
own accord, whereas those who devote little time to prayer
and communion with God have to organize painfully."
-Sadhu Sunder Singh
"A man who is intimate with
God will never be intimidated by men." – Leonard
Ravenhill
"All decays begin in the
closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse
with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of
it." - John Berridge
FAITH [top]
"Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing
and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee,
Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason,
and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the
four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the
soul lives by believing." - Thomas Brooks
"Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of
flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old?
Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout
the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those
who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me
more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God
of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him."
- James Gilmour of Mongolia
"It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is
a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits.
There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes.
It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of
maturity." - P. T. Forsyth
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable,
and receives the impossible."- Corrie ten Boom
We can bring hope into focus and
push it with faith and your imagination will become reality.
Purity is vital to faith.
Faith never struggles, it rests.
From the time of the asking to
the time of the receiving, faith sees no pitfalls.
All sin is downgrade and gravity,
and all faith is a lifting place into the admiration of
God. - Smith Wigglesworth
If you wait till you need faith
to get it, you're too late. - Smith Wigglesworth
Great faith comes out of great
tests and great trials. The great victories come out of
great battles. - Smith Wigglesworth
FASTING [top]
"I find it a good thing to fast. I do not lay down
rules for anyone in this matter, but I know it has been
a good thing for me to go without meals to get time for
prayer. So many say they have not sufficient time to pray.
We think nothing of spending an hour or two in taking
our meals." - D. E. Hoste
"We have found no means so
much blessed to keep religion alive as FASTING and PRAYER."
- Edward Payson
"Prayer is reaching out after
the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen
and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the
resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even
ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God."
- Andrew Murray
HEALING [top]
Sickness and disease is the foul offspring of his father
the devil and of his mother, sin. - John Alexander Dowie
HOLINESS [top]
There's a room in the Spirit where the flesh is not welcome!
- Unknown
"This Pentecostal movement
is something which God has started at high speed, but
the faster we go the greater the need of holiness. The
more power we have, the more we need to have every obstacle
cleared out of the way. That which cannot be noticed in
an old dead church can wreck a revival in a Pentecostal
church. May God give us holiness with our Pentecost, for
we surely need it. No revival can continue with the blessing
of God upon it that does not have a high standard of holiness."
– Donald Gee
"The Holy Spirit is the immediate
source of all holiness. The missionary must above all
things be a holy man. The ideal teacher of the Chinese
is a holy man. " He is entirely sincere, and perfect
in love. He is magnanimous, generous, benign, and full
of forbearance. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness,
and never swerves from the path of duty in his conduct.
He is deep and active like a fountain, sending forth his
virtues in due season. He is seen, and men revere him;
he speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened
by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with
Heaven." – Griffith John
"I am convinced that no Christian
teacher can be a great spiritual power in whom this ideal
is not embodied and manifested in an eminent degree. He
must be more than a good man; he must be a holy man, exhibiting
the vigor of every right purpose, and the intensity of
every devout affection. He must be a man full of the Holy
Ghost, and the divinity within must energize mightily
through him. He must be a man who will take time, not
only to master the language and literature of this people,
but also to be holy. It is not ourselves-our poor selves-the
Chinese want to see, but God in us" – Griffith
John
"The neglect of prayer is
a grand hindrance to holiness." - John Wesley
Worldly people sometimes complain, with reason, that "religious"
persons, so-called, are not so amiable and unselfish and
good-natured as others who make no profession of religion.
Sound doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by
a holy life. It is worse then useless; it does positive
harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewd men of
the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion
into contempt. It is my firm impression that we want a
thorough revival about Scriptural holiness. - J. C. Ryle
(1816 - 1900)
"Why does the Church stay
indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a
philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror
of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out
the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar
of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality. The
Holy Ghost cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor
can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls
for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving
passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified
and sacrificial people." – Samuel Chadwick
“God’s holiness is
not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know
nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique,
unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The
natural man is blind to it. He may fear God’s power
and admire his wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even
imagine.” - A.W.Tozer
The invasion of the Church by the
world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom.
In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has
resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack
of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered
Church can never evangelize the world.” - John R.
Mott
“If missions languish, it
is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The
command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not
obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the
will of God. There is little right giving because there
is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic
contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack
of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace.
Living, praying, giving and going will always be found
together, and a low standard in one means a general debility
in the whole spiritual being.” – Arthur T.
Pierson
The spirit of prayer should rule our spirits and our conduct.
The spirit of the prayer chamber must control our lives,
or the hour in the prayer closet will be dull and sapless.
Always praying in our spirits, always acting in the spirit
of praying-these make our praying strong. The spirit of
every moment is that which imparts strength to the communion
of the prayer closet. It is what we are outside of the
prayer closet that gives victory or brings defeat to the
prayer closet. If the spirit of the world prevails in
our non-closet hours, the spirit of the world will prevail
in our closet hours, and that will be a vain and idle
farce. - E.M. Bounds
We must live for God out of the
prayer closet if we want to meet God in the prayer closet.
We must bless God with praying lives if we want to have
God's blessing in the prayer closet. We must do God's
will in our lives if we want to have God's ear in the
prayer closet. We must listen to God's voice in public
if we want God to listen to our voice in private. God
must have our hearts out of the prayer closet if we want
to have God's presence in the prayer closet. If we want
to have God in the prayer closet, God must have us out
of the prayer closet. There is no way of praying to God,
except by living to God. The prayer closet is not a confessional,
simply, but the hour of holy communion, of high and sweet
communication, and of intense intercession.
It makes much difference whether
we come to God as a criminal or a child; to be pardoned
or to be approved; to settle scores or to be embraced;
for punishment or for favor. Our praying, to be strong,
must be buttressed by holy living. The name of Christ
must be honored by our lives before it will honor our
intercessions. The life of faith perfects the prayer of
faith.
Our lives not only give color to
our praying, but they give body to it as well. Bad living
leads inevitably to bad praying, and we pray feebly because
we live feebly. The stream of praying cannot rise higher
than the fountain of living. The force of the prayer closet
is made up of the energy that flows from the confluent
streams of living. Therefore, any feebleness of living
will throw its faintness into our prayer chambers. We
cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for
God strongly. The prayer closet cannot be made holy to
God when the life has not been holy to God.
"When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce
thing to come in contact with." – Frank Bartleman
MINISTRY [top]
“The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good
works is to strive to outrun them in the race. The way
to rebuke the cold and indifferent is to be always full
of zeal and ‘abounding in the work of the Lord’
yourself. Men will be much more ready to answer a call
to come up to your level, than a command to advance beyond
you.” - Record of Christian Work, May 1909
“A sermon in shoes is often
more eloquent than a sermon on paper.” - Theodore
L. Cuyler
"We give ourselves to prayer.
We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness
to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness.
We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We
do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck
them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage.
We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frown…Let
no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those
who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of
the Holy Ghost." – Samuel Chadwick
"My business is with all my
might to serve my own generation. In doing so I shall
best serve the next generation, should the Lord tarry…I
have but one life to live on earth and this one life is
but a brief life for sowing in comparison with eternity
for reaping." - George Muller
"We need a baptism of clear
seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through
the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless
they come soon it will be too late for this generation.
And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of
them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." -A. W.
Tozer
"Give me one hundred preachers
who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and
I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone
will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of
Heaven upon Earth." - John Wesley
"We must wake ourselves up!
Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross,
and thereby rob us of our crown."- William Booth
"We must feel toward our people
as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender
love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail
in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see
that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor
honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When
the people see that you truly love them, they will hear
anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a
tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them
perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that
you spend and are spent for their sakes." - Richard
Baxter
"A church in the land without
the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have
not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that
you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless
tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow."–
C. H. Spurgeon
"As I was walking in the
fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming
power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven
or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder,
that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like
iron, that I might visit every one and say, 'Escape for
thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you
will lay the blame of your damnation at my door."
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
"There are a lot of Christians
who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding
on to the Church with one hand while they play with the
toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway
and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some
of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated.
Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge
hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir,
I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of
the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time
I knock one out I get a sinner in." - Mordecai Ham
"Many do not recognize the
fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep
in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so.
He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may
sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and
say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern
himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if
we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with
his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up."
- Catherine Booth
"Spirit filled souls are
ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They
serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion
that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns.
They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected
in the fire of God." - Samuel Chadwick
"How is it that the soul being
of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and
yet we are so little moved?" - William Bramwell
"Many are willing that Christ
should be something, but few will consent that Christ
should be everything." - Alexander Moody Stuart
"Our method of proclaiming
salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving
Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of
God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching
of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death
of the cross, never, either in discourse or in argument,
to digress even for a quarter of an hour from the loving
Lamb: to name no virtue except in Him, and from Him and
on His account,-to preach no commandment except faith
in Him; no other justification but that He atoned for
us; no other sanctification but the privilege to sin no
more; no other happiness but to be near Him, to think
of Him and do His pleasure; no other self denial but to
be deprived of Him and His blessings; no other calamity
but to displease Him; no other life but in Him."
- Count Zinzendorf
"The very truths that gave
birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally
rejected as too strong." – Frank Bartleman
"Whenever you touch reality
in the spiritual realm, you touch things that are so vital
that any normal, healthy person cannot fail to be moved.
If we have today such ministry in our churches that men
and women cannot be moved, there is something wrong with
our preaching." - Donald Gee
"All God’s giants have
been weak men, who did great things for God because they
believed that God would be with them." - Hudson Taylor
Could a mariner sit idle if he
heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients
die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you
DAMNED? - Leonard Ravenhill
"No man is ever fully accepted
until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected."
- Author unknown
"Keep us little and unknown,
prized and loved by God alone." – Charles Wesley
"The only saving faith is
that which casts itself on God for life or death."
-Martin Luther
"Tearless hearts can never
be the heralds of the Passion." - J. H. Jowett
"What are Christians put
into the world for except to do the impossible in the
strength of God." - General S. C. Armstrong
"God loves with a great love
the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the
IMPOSSIBLE." - William Booth
"I have found that there
are three stages in every great work of God: first, it
is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done."
- Hudson Taylor
"We never test the resources
of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE." - F. B.
Meyer
"Until we reach for the IMPOSSIBLE
through fervent, faith-filled prayer, we will NEVER fulfill
our created purpose!" - David Smithers
“Today comes but once, and
comes never to return. We hope it will come again tomorrow;
but it does not. It is gone forever, with its inexhaustible
possibilities, privileges and responsibilities.”
– Record of Christian Work, October 1908
"The nature of Christ's salvation
is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist.
He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from
sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for
there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire
who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality
and worldliness." - A. W. Pink
Always give your spirit an opportunity
to grow by giving it the first chance to answer each problem
or question before your thoughts or body gives their opinion.
– Kenneth E. Hagin
Do ask God to open your eyes and
bring you to know His will for yourself. Do beware lest
the secret fear of having to give up too much, of having
to become too peculiar and entirely devoted to God, keep
you back. Beware of seeking just enough religion to give
ease to conscience and then not desiring to do and be
and give God all He is worthy of. And beware, above all,
of "limiting God," of making Him a liar by refusing
to believe what He has said He can and will do. - Andrew
Murray
The Spirit Himself is not small,
but might be small on His influence you allow in your
life. – Unknown
When God calls you to a vision
it's yours whether it looks like it or not. – Unknown
Where the Holy Ghost is not in
manifestation I doubt that He is there. - Smith Wigglesworth
When man comes to recognize the
dominance of the spirit, he'll live in the realm of the
supernatural without effort. He's learned to trust in
God. – Kenneth E. Hagin
When we make adjustments of conscience
to accommodate momentary convenience, we tear down the
foundations of character. – Unknown
Strong convictions come from a
sensitive conscience enlightened by right beliefs. When
we tamper with conscience it's like messing with a compass
and we get off course. – Kenneth E. Hagin
If you'll walk in the power of
the Word you will defeat the natural, whereas if you try
to do things in the natural you will defeat the power
of God. – Unknown
You can so live in the presence
of God that immediately when Satan's powers present themselves,
you shall discern them. – Unknown
The most staggering condition of
helplessness which could ever be brought before you is
your chance for God to use you. – Unknown
It's possible, it's easy, because
God is big. - T.L. Osborn
Any dedicated man is a misunderstood
person. - Lester Sumerall
Worry! If it continues, it cuts
a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. –
Unknown
The call of God is like fire, it
will consume you. – Unknown
There is condemnation that comes
to us if we know that we ought to be further on in the
race than we are. - Smith Wigglesworth
Your ministry will never be bigger
than your vision of Jesus. - Patty Hammond
If a scripture hurts you, read
it until it does good. - Smith Wigglesworth
Be selfish. Be utterly selfish
for your own spiritual prosperity. Let nothing turn you
aside. Have a one-track mind. (Prov. 4:25) Guard your
speech and let your words be few - yea, be utterly selfish
and concentrate on your progress in the spirit. –
Grace Ryerson Roos
The moment Nehemiah began to do
what he thought God had called him to do, he faced opposition.
The guy that's not expecting trouble is the guy that has
to pick himself up off the ground. – Unknown
The Secret Place does not change.
It is stationary for God is stationary; He does not change.
If any changing is being done, it's being done on our
part. – Unknown
"A man set on fire is an
apostle of his age. And the only one who can kindle the
spark of light and fire on the hearth where it has died
down is He who has revealed Himself as the God of fire,
our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our God is a consuming fire'...Tell
me, is your ministry a burning and shining light, or a
smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes? ...It is a strange
custom that we should supply a minister with a glass of
water; if only we could supply him with a bonfire in the
pulpit, a spiritual bonfire. We need the dynamic of a
flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire."
- Samuel M. Zwemer (Keswick 1937)
"Do not be satisfied with
as much Christianity as will only ease your conscience."
- J. B. Stoney
"By the time the average
Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody
thinks he has a FEVER!" - Watchman Nee
"Important as it is that
we recognize God working in us, I would yet warn against
an over preoccupation with the thought. It is a sure road
to sterile passivity. God will not hold us responsible
to understand the mysteries of election, predestination
and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to
deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and
in deepest reverence say, ‘Oh Lord Thou knowest.’
Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound
of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians,
but it will never make saints." – A. W. Tozer
MISSIONS/EVANGELISM [top]
"The Primary qualification for a missionary is not
love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ."
- Vance Havner
"Go for souls and go for the
worst." – William Booth
"If the church would only
awaken to her responsibility of intercession, we could
well evangelize the world in a short time. It is not God's
plan that the world be merely evangelized ultimately.
It should be evangelized in every generation. There should
be a constant gospel witness in every corner of the world
so that no sinner need close his eyes in death without
hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation through
Christ." -T. A. Hegre
"Christ is a Savior for those
realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin,
who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who
loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its
terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others." -
A. W. Pink
All spirits cry out, they do not lie dormant. If they
are not crying out to God, they are crying out somewhere,
to something. – Unknown
If you go after souls, miracles
will follow! – Unknown
"’Go ye’ is as
much a part of Christ's Gospel as ‘Come unto Me.’
You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced
your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel
to the ends of the earth. What is your part in that great
task?" – J. Stuart Holden
"The Holy Spirit is the source
of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We
as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without
it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil
on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves
are never strong."– Griffith John
"If you want the Kingdom speeded,
go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes
prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from
insincerity." - William Carey
” Whenever, in any century,
whether in a single heart or in a company of believers,
there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has
followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing
the world.” - A. J. Gordon
“Raymund Lull sought in vain
for the sympathy of popes and prelates in his heroic missionary
project, and finally had to go forth as a solitary and
unsupported herald of the cross among the Muslims. Today
this man's grace and apostleship are so fully recognized
that historians of missions ask not whether he heard the
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