SOME INTERESTING QUOTES

           

These quotes are from Devotions for MORNING and EVENING with OSWALD CHAMBERS   
Inspirational Press New York.

“Every element of self reliance must be slain by the power of God. 

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.” (pg 260)

          “The affections after sanctification are not meant to purify us, but to make us broken bread in the hands of our Lord to nourish others.

          The reason we are going through the things we are is that God wants to know whether He can make us good bread with which to feed others.

          If we are not thoroughly baked, we will produce indigestion because we are dough instead of bread.” (pg 268)

          “Am I prepared to be so identified with the Lord Jesus that His life and His sweetness are being poured out all the time? Neither natural love nor Divine love will remain unless it is cultivated. Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained by discipline.”  (pg 272)

          “It is not a question of being saved from hell, but of being saved in order to manifest the life of the Son of God in our mortal flesh, and it is the disagreeable things which make us exhibit whether or not we are manifesting His life.

          It is one thing to choose the disagreeable, and another thing to go into the disagreeable by God’s engineering. If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient.”  (pg 278)

          “God is the Master Engineer. He allows the difficulties to come in order to see if you can vault over them properly—‘By my God have I leaped over a wall’

          We have to exercise ourselves in order that the Son of God may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

          When we realize this, He will make us broken bread and poured out wine to feed and nourish others.”  (pg 280)

          “His cross is the door by which every member of the human race can enter into the life of God; by His Resurrection He has the right to give eternal life to any man, and by His Ascension Our Lord enters heaven and keeps the door open for humanity.”  (pg 284)

          “Either Jesus Christ is a deceiver and Paul is deluded, or some extraordinary thing happens to a man who holds onto the love of God when the odds are all against God’s character.”  (pg 288)

          “We are all baptized with the Holy Ghost not for anything at all, but entirely , as our Lord puts it to be His witnesses, those with whom He can do exactly what He likes.

          The passion of Christianity is that I deliberately sign away my own rights and become a bondslave of Jesus Christ.”  (pg 299)

          “By the Resurrection and Ascension power of Jesus, by the sentdown Holy Ghost, we can be lifted into such a relationship with the Father that we are at one with the perfect sovereign will of God by our free choice as Jesus was.”  (pg 308)

          “-- we are to live and move and have our being in God, to look at everything in relation to God, because the abiding consciousness of God pushes itself to the front all the time.

          To be haunted by God is to have an effective barricade against all the onslaughts of the enemy.

          ‘God is our Refuge’- nothing can come through that shelter.”  (pg 318)

          “Whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do.” The disciple who abides In Jesus is the will of God, and his apparently free choices are God’s fore-ordained decrees.”  (pg 328)

          “If I will come to Jesus my actual life will be brought into accordance with my real desires; I will actually cease  from sin, and actually find the song of the Lord begin.”  (pg 336)

          “The mature saint is just like a little child, absolutely simple and joyful and gay. Go on living the life that God would have you live and you will grow younger instead of older. This is a marvelous rejuvenescence when once you let God have His way.”  (pg 337)

          “The disciple is one who has the new name within all over him; self-interest and pride and self-sufficiency have been completely erased.”  (pg338)

          “The one mark of a saint is the moral originality which springs from abandonment to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing wellspring of original life all the time; the Spirit of God is a well of water springing up, perennially fresh.” (pg 340)

“Every time I’m in trouble I call on you, confident that You’ll answer. There’s no one quite like you among the gods, O Lord, and nothing to compare with your works. All the nations you made are on their way, ready to give honor to you, O Lord, ready to put your beauty on display, parading your greatness, and the great things you do—God, you’re the one, there’s no one but you!  Ps. 86:7-8, MSG

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