| The power of a consecrated man
The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and
in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him. I will try
my utmost to be that man.
Dwight L. Moody
Where is your passion?
“If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching
TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting
alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping
and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever
in His presence...? You’d be bored to tears in heaven, if you’re
not ecstatic about God now!”
“ It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a passion
for God-especially a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such
a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High-the clamor of so-called
praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I wonder if the same people
who love to sing and shout, loudly exclaiming the the praises of God,
really have such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord.
When the meeting’s over and there’s no one there to listen
except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate
joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?”
Keith Green quoted http://www.sermonindex.net/mail_si/oldpaths/oldpaths_sept2.pdf
Wake up!
“We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take
our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.”
General William Booth, Quoted http://www.sermonindex.net/mail_si/oldpaths/oldpaths_sept2.pdf
A closer walk with God
“Oh, for closest communion with God, till soul and body, head, face,
and heart -shine with Divine brilliancy! But oh! for a holy ignorance
of our
shining!”
“Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little
in comparison with eternal realities.”
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Quoted http://www.sermonindex.net/mail_si/oldpaths/oldpaths_sept2.pdf
Close Communion
“Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence.
It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’
You must
find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time
you sacredly keep for communion with Him.”
“All practical power over sin and over men depends
on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with
God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to
war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will;
they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They
are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things
to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and
read His signals.”
A. T. Pierson, Quoted http://www.sermonindex.net/mail_si/oldpaths/oldpaths_sept2.pdf
God hasn't moved - we have!
Meister Eckhart, a wise medieval spiritual director, once said, “God
is at home; it is we who have gone out for a walk.”
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