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Give Your Whole Self to God, C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity”
“Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you…
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Being and Doing, Major W. Ian Thomas
BEING AND DOING Major W. Ian Thomas This is a divine vocation into which you have been redeemed, as “His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that you should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10) can only be fulfilled in the energy and power of the One who indwells you now by His Spirit, as He walked once only in the energy and power of the Father who indwelt Him through the Spirit. Of Himself He said, “I can of mine own self do nothing” (John 5:19), and of you He says, in John 15:5, “Without me you can do nothing.” How much can…
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How to Hear the Voice of God, A. B. Simpson
“Years ago a friend placed in my hand a little book which became one of the turning points in my life. It was called True Peace, an old medieval message and it had but one thought–that God was waiting in the depth of my waiting to talk with me if I would only get still enough to hear Him. I thought this would be a very easy matter, so I began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect pandemonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, until I could hear nothing but their noise and din. Some…
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Interview with Sarah Ott, Part 3
Continued from Part 2 This is the third and final part of an interview chat with Tree Thoughts and Sarah Ott. SARAH: Sorry. That was a long story but I hope it answered some of what you wanted to know. TT: Ah! Yes! There is so, so, so much meat here. Can I ask you a few follow-up questions? SARAH: Sure TT: I will ask you how you live in this when there are so many voices telling your generation to take on this cause or that cause for Christ. How do you use living in John 15 when someone gives you a book about getting active? SARAH: Oh my…
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Interview with Sarah Ott, Part 2
Continued from Part 1 Sarah: It was as if the scales fell off my eyes and heart. I saw my view point and how it was with God on the fringes and Sarah in the center. God brought back to my mind the passage in Judges where the people begged for a king, their way. They were sick of being set apart, called out, different. They wanted a king like everyone else. I did too. I wanted the picture, the perfect little life, the dynamic love story for His glory that would stormbust the world. I wanted it and I wanted it THEN! God’s response to me was the same…
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Interview with Sarah Ott, Part 1
This is the first of three Tree Thoughts, (TT) chats with Sarah Ott of Establish Her. TT: I’d like to begin by saying how wonderful it is to see the Lord in your words and to confirm what He is working in you. It’s a vital message! Sarah: Thank you so much! The Lord truly has downloaded content into me through many seasons of need in my life. When He takes everything, He becomes everything. I’m so passionate about this message—the message of needing Him and abiding in Him more than empty activity FOR Him. There is a prepositional shift from FOR to IN and I believe He has raised…
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Lost In Christ, A. B. Simpson
“A dear friend once sent me a picture from Rome, with a prayer that it might be fulfilled in me. It was a photograph of the old painting of John leaning on Jesus’ breast. As I studied it, I noticed that I could not see the face of John at all. The form of his head was visible, but his face was buried in the bosom of Jesus, and the master’s face was beaming over him and covering him with its light and love.Yes, that was John. He was lost in Christ. His personal consciousness was merged in his Master’s person, and he had found that the true secret of…
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Rags of Self-Reliance, Wilkerson
“I give up my filthy rags of self-reliance and good works. I lay aside my worn-out shoes of striving. I leave behind my sleepless nights on the streets of doubt and fear. And in return, I get adopted by a King. This is what happens when you seek the pearl, the treasure, till you find him. Jesus offers you everything he is. He brings you joy, peace, purpose, holiness. And he becomes your everything—your waking, your sleeping, your morning, afternoon and evening.” Exerpt from The Secrets of the Lord, by David Wilkerson (1931-2011) Please follow and like us:
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The Bad News About Good Works, by Spurgeon
“Now, I dare say we shall offend many here when we tell them what good works are; for in our opinion good works are the rarest things in the world, and we believe we might walk for many a mile before we should see a good work at all. We use the word good now in its proper sense. There are many works which are good enough between man and man, but we shall use the word good in a higher sense to-day as regards God. We think we shall be able to show you that there are very few good works anywhere, and that there are…
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Growing in Grace
If I could make each one of my readers realize how utterly helpless we are in the matter of growing, I am convinced a large part of the strain would be taken out of many lives at once. Imagine a child possessed of the monomania that he would not grow unless he made some personal effort after it. He might, it is true, spend his days and years in weary strain, but after all there would be no change, “No man by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature;” and his years of labor would be only wasted, if they did not really hinder the longed-for end. Grow,…
