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How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. CHARLES SPURGEON

In that blood, dwelt the soul of the holy Son of God.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

The Spirit must be honored not only as the author of a new life but also as the leader and director of our entire walk.

I need to spend time with God even when I do not know what to pray.

Jesus and with God. We all know the need of time for our meals each

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

The fruit of the Spirit is love. Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

Remember that Christ works in and through you, and provides all that God desires for you and all that you need.

reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.

As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.

The power to believe a promise depends entirely on our faith in the one who promises.

So intimately is it bound up with the entire spiritual life that only

In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.1

expect to abide in Him unless you will give Him that time.

Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.

The extent of our love to the Lord is shown by the way we obey His commands. Love does all that it can to make the loved one happy.

The rest is in Christ, and not something He gives apart from Himself, and so it is only in having Him that the rest can really be kept and enjoyed. It

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.

At the root of all real experience of grace and true

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Hold of the thoughts, and have asked God for His blessing, to go out in the hope that the blessing

Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self. IX. Humility

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness ... Without holiness no one will see the Lord. HEBREWS 12:10, 14

Him alone brings the joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, let each of us who has begun to taste the

Be silent before God and let Him bless you.

Believer! study the humility of Jesus. This is the secret, the hidden root of thy redemption. Sink down into it deeper day by day.

The only hope of a decreasing self is an increasing Christ." F. B. MEYER

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

blood, I am confident that many would be found to accept

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

daily and hourly presence and keeping, were preached with the same distinctness and urgency

It is the one who does what God commands to whom God can entrust His work, whom God can use to be a type of savior to others.

would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives,

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

to be a witness to the grace and power of our Lord to keep us united with Himself, and seek by word and

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Dutch) language. I pray still more earnestly that He would,

As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

experience of the purity and the power, the love and

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.

Humility is, nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.

who seek to know Him fully, as He has already blessed

The presence and the power of the glorified Christ will come to them that are of a humble spirit.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

walk to win others to follow Him fully. It is only in such fruit-bearing that our own abiding can be

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Once again. It is only love that can fit us for the work of intercession.

ignorance is the cause of the unbelief that fails of the inheritance. If, in our orthodox Churches, the abiding in

Pride renders faith impossible.

Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men

God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.' - John iv. 23, 24.

Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.

We offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray.

meditations as here offered, and when we think we have

It is only into the thirst of an empty soul that the streams of living waters flow. Ever thirsting is the secret of never thirsting.

know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.

We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration.

those who have not yet fully understood what the Savior meant with His command, or who have feared

As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.

By His death He proved that He possessed life only to hold it, and to spend it, for God.

The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.

Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.

In heaven and on earth, pride or self-exaltation is the very gateway to hell.

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

and how the wholehearted surrender to abide in Him

The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us.

with the abiding in Him. It is with the desire

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Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer.

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.