God knows no good resides in man; no flesh can please Him. It is corrupted beyond repair. Since it is so absolutely hopeless, how then can man please God after he has believed in His Son unless He giv...
Bible-reading and prayer are not wrong, and God forbid that we should suggest that they are. But it is wrong to trust even in them for victory. Our help is in Him who is the object of that reading and...
Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.
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...
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...
Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.
As long as you are in Christ, what you are in yourself does not count. If only you are in the bottle, whatever happens to the bottle happens to you. This is the glad tidings. So we declare that the go...
Whatever prayer is not according to God’s will is utterly
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 reason for so many defeats in the spiritual realm is because this sector of the soul has not been dealt with drastically.
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...
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of...
Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot. The failure of many is to seek from man what can be found only in God. All human affection is empty; the love of God alone is able to fu...
Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake—This is the selfdenial. and cross-bearing spoken of in the preceding verse. Losing the soul is the same as denying the self. The Lord concedes that if for His...
This is a fact. But Satan does not attack just prayer; he also attacks the praise of God’s children. The ultimate goal of Satan is to stop all praises to God. Prayer is a warfare, but praise is a vict...
The soul seeks to retain its authority and move independently, while the spirit strives to possess and master everything for the maintenance of God's authority.
The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?
Do we impress people with ourselves, or with the Lord? Do we draw people to our teaching, or to the Lord? This is genuinely vital. It determines the value of all our work and labor.
Brothers, if God brings us to the point of seeing that everything in God's work depends upon His blessing, it will bring about a basic change in our labor for God. We would not consider how many peop...