It is because we know God’s will that we may say to Him: God, we want You to do this thing, we are determined that You do it, You cannot but do it.
If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.
Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate...
Do we think because we have prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to reveal His mind and to work in us, that all shall accordingly be done? That assumption is not the truth; for unless we deliver to death...
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.
Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.
Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
Andrew Murray once said that what the church and individuals have to dread is the inordinate activity of the soul with its power of mind and will. F. B. Meyer declared that had he not known about the...
Since God’s Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.
Whatever prayer is not according to God’s will is utterly
We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.
The more spiritual a child of God becomes, the more conscious he is of the significance of walking according to the spirit and the dangers of walking according to the flesh.
The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.
The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened.
The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you y...
Only if we completely acknowledge that what man requires today is God's life: the quickening of the spirit: will we then perceive how vain is any work performed by ourselves.
Man’s failure is not due to his weakness, but to his not accepting God’s strength. It is not in his inability but in not allowing God to enable him. He cannot do it, but why not let God deliver him? T...
Lord, I do not know fully what the value of the blood is, but I know that the blood has satisfied Thee; so the blood is enough for me, and it is my only plea.
Let us not argue over our being labeled as either spiritual or carnal. If we are not governed by the Holy Spirit what profit will the mere designation of spiritual be to us? This is after all a matter...
Learn to recognize God's sovereignty. Learn to rejoice in God's pleasure. This was Abraham's first lesson, namely that God, not himself, was the Source.