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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
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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