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God Never Forces A Person's Will Into Surrender, And He Never Begs. He Patiently Waits Until That Person Willingly Yields To Him. True Surrender Is A Matter Of Being 'united Together [with Jesus] In The Likeness Of His Death' (romans 6:5) Until Nothing Ever Appeals To You That Did Not Appeal To Him. And After You Surrender--then What? Your Entire Life Should Be Characterized By An Eagerness To Maintain Unbroken Fellowship And Oneness With God.

Our Work Is Not To Save Souls, But To Disciple Them. Salvation And Sanctification Are The Work Of God's Sovereign Grace, And Our Work As His Disciples Is To Disciple Others' Lives Until They Are Totally Yielded To God. One Life Totally Devoted To God Is Of More Value To Him Than One Hundred Lives Which Have Been Simply Awakened By His Spirit. As Workers For God, We Must Reproduce Our Own Kind Spiritually, And Those Lives Will Be God's Testimony To Us As His Workers. God Brings Us Up To A Standard Of Life Through His Grace, And We Are Responsible For Reproducing That Same Standard In Others.

If We Have Never Had The Experience Of Taking Our Commonplace Religious Shoes Off Our Commonplace Religious Feet, And Getting Rid Of All The Undue Familiarity With Which We Approach God, It Is Questionable Whether We Have Ever Stood In His Presence.

If Ever We Are Going To Be Made Into Wine, We Will Have To Be Crushed; You Cannot Drink Grapes. Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed. I Wonder What Kind Of Finger And Thumb God Has Been Using To Squeeze You, And You Have Been Like A Marble And Escaped?

Prayer Is Not Only Asking, It Is An Attitude Of Heart That Produces An Atmosphere In Which Asking Is Perfectly Natural, And Jesus Says, "every One That Asketh Receiveth."