By S.D. Gordon
You cannot take Jesus in with your mind simply.
Man was born in the warm heart of God.
Our friendships, ability to make money, health, strength in temptation, and in sorrow, guidance in difficult circumstances, and in all of life’s movements; help of all sorts, financial, bodily, mental, spiritual—all come from God, and necessitate a constant touch with Him.
A going Christian is a growing Christian.
The Spirit of God in working among men seeks embodiment in men, through whom He acts.
If a man will quietly, resolutely follow the Master’s leading—nothing extreme—nothing fanatical, or morbid, just a quiet going where that inner Voice plainly leads day by day, he will be startled to find what an utterly new meaning prayer will come to have for him.
It is only as the heart is fired that the brain awakens.
Jesus was God on a wooing errand to the earth.
If prayer be partnership in the highest sense then the same spirit must animate both partners, the human and the divine, if the largest results are to come.
God will do in answer to the prayer of the weakest one here what otherwise he could not do.
Water seeks its level persistently; so do one’s words.
He must yield before His advance, and he must yield before this man who stands for Jesus down on the earth.
A man must plan for the bit of quiet time daily, preferably in the early morning, alone with Jesus.
Following means climbing.
It is only in the path of following clear leading that there comes sweetest peace, with no nagging doubts and mental confusion.
Selfishness gives Satan a footing. It gives a coaling station for his fleet on the shore of your life.
Prayer does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action. Everything that ever has been prayed for, of course I mean every right thing, God has already purposed to do.
Jesus was God answering the tug of man’s need on His heart-strings.
With a spirit touched with glad awe that he can and may help God, and a heart full alike of peace and of yearning, and a life fragrant with an unseen Presence he goes steadily on his way, towards the dawning of the day.
A man’s whole life is utterly dependent upon the giving hand of God. Everything we need comes from Him.
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