Faith & Trust
Prayer is not extracting favours from a reluctant God. It is not passing a check in a bank window for money.
Communion is fellowship with God. Not request for some particular thing; not asking, but simply enjoying Himself, loving Him, thinking about Him, how beautiful, and intelligent, and strong and loving and lovable He is; talking to Him without words.
A look into the face of Christ is transforming.
The Spirit of God in working among men seeks embodiment in men, through whom He acts.
The touchstone of the ‘Follow Me’ life is not imitation but following; not copying but obeying; not struggle—though there will be struggle—but companionship, a companionship which nothing is allowed to take the fine edge off of.
God takes the initiative in all prayer. It starts with Him.
It is the genius of His plan to send the Spirit that swayed Him to live in us.
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.
A man must plan for the bit of quiet time daily, preferably in the early morning, alone with Jesus.
The greatest thing any one can do for God and for man is to pray.
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 man’s whole life is utterly dependent upon the giving hand of God. Everything we need comes from Him.
No one ever had a sight of Christ’s face and forgot.
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.
Jesus was God on a wooing errand to the earth.
God will do in answer to the prayer of the weakest one here what otherwise he could not do.
You can apprehend Him. You can take hold of Him.
You cannot take Jesus in with your mind simply.
He lived the dependent life.
Prayer is working together with God. Prayer is pulling with God in His plan for a world.
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