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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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When the Wind Blows, Amy Carmichael
“Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.” Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
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# 6 All of Your Owns Must Go, Fenelon
“Let us pray God that he would root out of our hearts everything of our own planting and set out there, with his own hand, the tree of life bearing all manner of fruits.” Francios Fenelon (1651-1715)
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The Crush of God, Alan Redpath
“When God wants to do an impossible task He takes an impossible man and crushes him.” Alan Redpath (1907-1989)
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Dependency University, Alan Redpath
“The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependent upon God, and know it.” Alan Redpath (1907-1989)
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Piece by Piece, Francis Havergal
“The Master has not put a chest of poetic gold into my possession and said, ‘Now use it as you like,’ but He keeps the gold and gives it to me piece by piece just when He will and as much as He will and no more.” Frances Havergal (1836-1879)
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Get Hold of God, Oswald Chambers
“Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. “ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
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# 5 The Dark Night of the Soul, A.T. Pierson
“It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way. “ A. T. Pierson (1837-1911)
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God Remembers That We Are Dust, A.W. Tozer
“He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.” A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
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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…
