Faith & Trust
It is impossible for man to do it. And then alongside that is the thought--What is impossible with man is possible with God.
The Spirit has come to keep the link with Him unbroken every moment.
God is life, and love, and blessing, and power, and infinite beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him; but ah! this one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God.
The beginning of the true Christian life is to receive the Holy Spirit.
God takes care that His own divine light shines upon you, and that you shall abide in that light, if you will only trust Him for it.
When faith in its struggling gets to the end of itself, and just throws itself upon God and rests on Him, then comes joy and victory.
Moment by moment I’m kept in His love; moment by moment I’ve life from above.
It is in hearts entirely surrendered to the Lord Jesus, in hearts separating themselves from the world, and even from ordinary religious exercises, and giving themselves up in intense prayer to look to their Lord--it is in such hearts that the heavenly will of God will be made manifest.
Let death be to you the most desirable thing on earth: death to self, and fellowship with Christ.
The condition of God’s blessing is absolute surrender of all into His hands.
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power. That is what the Christian needs.
At the bottom of all faith there is a feeling of helplessness.
God works to will, and then He works to do.
What is done in the will of God, the strength of God will not be withheld from it; what is done in the will of God must have the mighty blessing of God.
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
The whole of Christianity is a work of God’s omnipotence.
The branch has nothing but what it gets from the vine, and you and I can have nothing but what we get from Jesus.
God alone can effect the change. God alone, who gave us the Holy Spirit, can restore the Holy Spirit in power into our life.
As long as we are something, God cannot be all, and His omnipotence cannot do its full work. That is the beginning of faith--utter despair of self, a ceasing from man and everything on earth, and finding our hope in God alone.
God cannot do it.
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