Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going...
A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.
Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and whe...
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we ha...
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a s...
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You mus...
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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