For he that does not look to the Spirit of God for all goodness and virtue must therefore look to some other source for some goodness and virtue. Yet whether one looks to his own religious self, learned in scripture doctrines, or to Satan, his religion is equally an abomination to God.
William Law
Biography And Works Christ is my saviour. He is my life. He is everything to me in heaven and earth. Once while traveling in a sandy region I was tired and thirsty. Standing on the top of a mound I looked for water. The sight of a lake at a distance brought joy to me, for now I hoped to quench my thirst. I walked toward it for a long time, but I could never reach it. Afterwards I found out it was a mirage, only a mere appearance of water caused by the refracted rays of the sun. In reality there was none. In a like manner I was moving about the world in search of the water of life. The things of this world - wealth, position, honour and luxury - looked like a lake by drinking of whose waters I hoped to quench my spiritual thirst. But I could never find a drop of water to quench the thirst of my heart. I was dying of thirst. When my spiritual eyes were opened I saw the rivers of living water flowing from his pierced side. I drank of it and was satisfied. Thirst was no more.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
A Short Biography
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
For years, maybe, you have tried fruitlessly to exercise control over yourself, and perhaps this is still your experience; but when once you see the truth you will recognize that you are indeed powerless to do anything, but that in setting you aside altogether God has done it all. Such discovery brings human striving and self effort to an end.
Watchman Nee
Website
Friend, it is through him that you are speaking, it is he whom you breathe, and you do not know it! For your eye is blind, your heart hardened. But, if you wish, you can be cured. Entrust yourself to the doctor, and he will open the eyes of your soul and your heart. Who is the doctor? God, using his word and his wisdom.
Theophilus of Antioch
Biography
The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling power and force is his life, is as a mirror reflecting the glory of the Lord....He has caught the glow and is reflecting it. We all reflect as in a mirror. Has anything been getting through to your life? - any light, any reflection, any glow?
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And List Of Works
Why is the Lord so attracted to the lowly? He knows the weaker His servant, the more genuinely he will give glory to God. So the Lord kept Moses weak, and maintained his weakness throughout the wilderness. Forget Hollywood's version of Moses, God never healed the stammer... Who would not be tempted to plead: Hurry Lord - heal his stutter! Yet, the Red Sea parted. God was never troubled by His servant's flawed oratory skills. This is the glory of the cross: self is crucified by it so that Christ may be revealed in power.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!
Matthew Simpson
Biography
The Christian often tries to forget his weakness: God wants us to remember it, to feel it deeply. The Christian wants to conquer his weakness and to be freed from it: God wants us to rest and even rejoice in it. The Christian mourns over his weakness: Christ teaches His servant to say, "I take pleasure in infirmities; most gladly will I glory in my infirmities." The Christian thinks his weakness his greatest hindrance in the life and service of God: God tells us that it is the secret of strength and success. It is our weakness, heartily accepted and continually realized, that gives us our claim and access to the strength of Him who has said, "My strength is made perfect in weakness."
Andrew Murray
Biography And Works
You must stay upon the Lord; and come what may - winds, waves, cross-seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers - no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold fast your confidence in God's faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His everlasting love in Christ Jesus.
Richard Fuller
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31 Days Toward Intimacy with God By Joni Eareckson Tada As believers, we were made for intimacy with God. The Lord Jesus gave His life for us so that we might have intimacy with Him. God knows that the more we get to know Him, the more we will know of life we were created to experience. By focusing our thoughts on Him, we will grasp more fully His goodness and be all the better for it. We'll come to see how much we really do depend on Him for everything, from salvation, to strength for each new day, to the next breath we draw into our lungs. 31 Days Toward Intimacy with God will gently guide your steps to a closer, more intimate walk with your Savior. |
From birth we have been learning the rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of those deep-seated values. It is an assault on human autonomy, an indictment of independent living. To people in the fast lane, determined to make it on their own, prayer is an embarrassing interruption. Prayer is alien to our proud human nature. And yet somewhere,someplace, probably all of us reach the point of falling on our knees, bowing our heads, fixing our attention on God and praying. We look both ways to be sure no one is watching; we may blush; but in spite of the foreignness of the activity, we pray,
Bill Hybels
Willow Creek Community Church
The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing; Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives. Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural powerÖ Brethren, this is what we must be...But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation.
Griffith John
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
God expects nothing from Alan Redpath but failure. I as a man am no different today from the day before I was converted. Five minutes after I've finished preaching I would be capable of committing any sin imaginable but for the grace of God. Alan Redpath is no different as a man from what he was as a youngster. And the sins that beset him then beset him now, were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit to keep me.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.
Matthew Henry
Biography
I had to learn to take from Him my spiritual life every second, to breathe Himself in as I breathed, and breathe myself out. So, moment by moment for the spirit, and moment by moment for the body, we must receive. You say, "Is not that a terrible bondage, to be always on the strain?" What, on the strain with one you love, your dearest Friend? Oh, no! It comes so naturally, so spontaneously, so like a fountain, without consciousness, without effort, for true life is always easy, and overflowing.
A. B. Simpson
Biography/Bibliography
To place ourselves in range of God's choicest gifts, we have to walk with God, work with God, lean on God, cling to God, come to have the sense and feel of God, refer all things to God.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
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Patience: The Benefits of Waiting By Stephen D.Eyre You can tell that God is growing patience in you when you run into frustrating experiences, when others fail to meet your expectations; when people you depend on let you down. Most of all, you know you are learning patience when you call out to the Lord for help and he seems to be on vacation. In the face of such trials, the Bible tells us that patience is worth the wait. This Fruit of the Spirit Bible study helps you discover the benefits of waiting. Includes six lessons. |
I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense - first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur...
Charles Simeon
Brief Biography
Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!
Bruce Wilkinson
Website
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.
Bruce Wilkinson
Website
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
Neil T. Anderson
Freedom in Christ Ministries
The whole Christian life is a life in which the further a person progresses, the more he has to depend directly on God... The more we progress, the less we are self-sufficient. The more we progress, the poorer we get so that the man who has progressed most, is totally poor - he has to depend directly on God. He's got nothing left in himself.
Thomas Merton
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Overcoming the Enemy: The Spiritual Warfare of the Believer, Softcover By T.D. Jakes / Bethany Spiritual warfare is so much more than just telling the devil to leave you alone. It requires an absolute dependence on God and the weapons He provides to see you through every situation victoriously. In this final study of Ephesians, T.D. Jakes tackles the tough questions regarding spiritual warfare:
If you're tired of feeling beat down and crushed by the devil's schemes in your life, the principles in this book are your keys to becoming more than a conqueror. Your enemy is strong, but God is stronger still...and He's given you everything you need to win! |
This independent, self-sufficient approach to life is the fundamental sin of so many of us... It is the refusal of grace. It is the failure to acknowledge Abba as the Divine Almsgiver. It is Adam and Eve reaching for the apple all over again. But, luckily, self-sufficiency can take us only so far. Sooner or later we run up against a brick wall. We get a sudden glimpse into our existential self-deficiency. We finish eating the apple and discover, a few hours later, that we are hungry again. We gradually realize where we actually are and where we truly belong.
Albert Haase
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
Arthur W. Pink
Archive
Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
Matthew Henry
Biography Resources
I did not know my savage thirst until You led me to Your well. I did not know I lived in chains until You freed me.
Randy Stonehill
Website
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With Great Mercy By Kathy Gilbert Taylor When life dealt more pain than Kathy Gilbert Taylor could endure, she learned to live moment by moment. With Great Mercy is not merely a story about pain and healing. It is the story of one of child of God’s spiritual battle for true faith and a closer relationship with her Lord. Despite the excruciating pain she was experiencing, Taylor held fast to God’s truths and pressed on for the miraculous. Let her incredible journey inspire you in your own walk through the valleys of life to draw close to God no matter what the cost. A rehabilitation counselor, Taylor believes that all people have a story to tell. Space and prompts are provided in With Great Mercy, encouraging readers to make brief notes of how God is keeping them in the midst of their trials. This easily read book will bless anyone who is fighting the good fight of faith. |
Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.
Kay Arthur
Precept Ministries International
Christian Quotations on The Importance of Staying Dependent on God
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