We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.
The temptation to so many of us when we try to approach God is to think that because God has been dealing with us—because He has been taking steps to bring us into something more of Himself and has be...
Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.
For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.
As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let
Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.
How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?
To be useful in God’s hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God’s requirements if he underestimates the importance...
The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
If any person desires to think, he must possess memory, imagination and reasoning power; but the Christian has presently lost these powers, hence is unable to think. He cannot create, deduce or recoll...
Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to r...
Do you know, my friends, that the Spirit within you is very God? Oh that our eyes were opened to see the greatness of God’s gift! Oh that we might realize the vastness of the resources secreted in our...
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.
Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.
The vessel through which the Lord Jesus can reveal Himself in this generation is not the individual, but the body of Christ. True, God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith (12:3), but alone in is...
However zealous He is towards His own will, He will temporarily permit Satan to be on the offensive should His people forget His will and fail to show sympathy by cooperating with Him.
The Lord continued His teaching on the matter of authority. He called His disciples together and instructed them about future things in glory. He said that, among the Gentiles, men seek for authority...
We can never know either the hatefulness of sin or the treachery of our self-nature until there is that flash of God upon us. I speak not of a sensation but of an inward revelation of the Lord Himself...
The operation of His life in us is in a true sense spontaneous, that is to say, it is without effort of ours. The all-important rule is not to try, but to trust, not to depend upon our own strength, b...