63. INSPIRATION & ENTHUSIASM
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, & not only when I am present with you (Ecc.9:10; Gal.4:18).
1. Nothing great was ever achieved without inspiration & enthusiasm.
2. Without the spirit you're dead, you stink, it smells, & everybody can sense it!
3. The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his inspiration. Let him lose everything but inspiration & he will come through again to success.
4. Every calling is great when greatly pursued for God's glory.
5. Every production of genius must be the production of inspiration.
6. Inspiration is the propelling force that is necessary for climbing the ladder of success in any ministry, in any field!
7. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possessed!
8. If you'll just fill your heart with the Lord, when you open your mouth it's like just turning it on!
9. The only thing more infectious than enthusiasm is a lack of it.
10. A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands & his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands & his brain & his heart is an artist!
11. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, was once asked how he got his crowds. He replied, "I set myself on fire, & the people come to see me burn."
12. Without any emotion, you're not going to get any motion!
13. If I can just set you on fire, I know you'll set the World on fire!
14. Duty without inspiration becomes laborious, duty with inspiration becomes glorious!
15. Any mountain--the mountain of this life, the mountain of accomplishment, the mountain of obstacles, the mountain of difficulty--if you're going to climb it, has to be worth dying for!
16. If you have lost that compulsion that you just have to make progress & keep moving, that you'd rather die for something rather than live for nothing, then you've lost the martyr spirit.
17. Don't try to get away with operating in your own flesh! You'll show what an absolute fool you are without the Spirit!
18. Whole-heartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to gain others.
19. What makes you really great is the greatness God gives you--the spirit, the inspiration!
20. What a difference the Spirit makes! It's the emotional thing that really counts, not the technical perfection.
21. When God has given you a role to play & you can play it with divine anointing & real inspiration of the Lord & by the power of His Spirit, you become that creation of God!
22. Faithy sings with authority! It's such divine conviction, nothing & nobody can shake it!
23. God makes the difference between lifeless clay & the alive pulsating energetic body of a human being! It's the breath of God, the anointing & power of God that makes the difference!
24. Without Him you're nothing! You'll fall flat as a flounder!
25. It doesn't matter how technically perfect these bands are, they can be dead as a doornail if they lack the power--that supernatural thing--that mysterious mystical power that really turns people on & makes them trip out!
26. That's what's wrong with the churches today: They've got everything, but they're one helluva failure because they've lost the Spirit--no anointing or power, no real emotion, no dramatic mystical charisma.--The fire's gone out!
27. What good is the furnace when its fire goes out?--It's cold & dark & useless! It's not the furnace, remember, it's the fire that makes it hot!
28. I don't care how much education you have or how much of an orator you are, if you haven't got the fire, it profits nothing!
29. If you haven't got the fire, it's just cold dead icicles--no warmth, no heat!
30. God can inspire you!--Anything you do, washing dishes, taking care of babies, no matter what it is, you can do it in the Spirit!
31. If you just have the letter of the law of duty only, it drags you down & turns you off!
32. If you've got that divine anointing, it makes every little task wonderful!
33. "You've got to have a glory in the thing you do, an everlasting glory that'll carry you through!"
34. If your music doesn't affect people, you're just in the entertainment business!
35. If your witness doesn't make them glad or mad or sad, it's just so much hot air & a waste of time!
36. You can be an anointed worm & become a glowworm for God! Without the anointing you'd just be an ordinary little bug! But with the anointing you become a firefly lighting up the night for God!
37. Every task, whatever it is, without the Spirit is dead & will eat your heart out & kill you! But the Spirit can make anything glorious!
38. The Spirit can turn it on, no matter what it is or who it is, & give it glory & glamour & beauty & joy & life & heat & everything!--You name it! It's the Spirit that makes the difference.
39. Has your singing, music or whatever you do got the power, the fire of God?--If not, it's dead works!--And it'll never set anyone else on fire either! God help you to have the fire-power of God's Spirit in all you do!
40. Don't try to work up glamour--pray down glory!
41. Some people quote Scriptures like so many words without meaning!--Words without music!--The letter without the Spirit! It just means nothing!
42. That's the spirit--sock it to'm! Only the Spirit brings life!
43. Sock it to'm in the Spirit, whatever you do! There's power in the Spirit! "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty!" (2Cor.3:17)
44. We've got nothing but God. Let's show them His Spirit, in the power & demonstration of the Spirit! That's all we've got! That's all that keeps us alive! Let's keep on burning, singing, preaching, praising & praying in the Spirit!
45. Whatever you do, for God's sake, do it in the Spirit--not in the flesh--for the flesh profiteth nothing!
46. Do it in the Spirit & it'll live in their hearts forever--by His Spirit!
47. You've got to put some gumption into it! You've got to put some real "umph" into it! Triumph is 10% "try" & 90% "umph"!
48. It's all in how you sing it, it's all in how you say it, it's all in what you put into it that counts!
49. Real inspiration comes with real feeling--really feeling a certain emotion, & both words & music will express it.
50. Please mean it with all your heart & soul & ask God to fill you with His Spirit & empower you to overflow until you absolutely explode!
51. You can't sell to others what you yourself are not sold on!
52. I believe in the one-take Revolution, just turn'm on & let'm go, & the Lord will take care of the inspiration!
53. The Spirit knows what they need, the Spirit knows what will touch their hearts--just let go & let God!
54. Open your mouth & He will fill it, if He's already filled your heart!
55. One who uses many periods is a philosopher; many question marks, a student; many exclamations, a World changer!
56. Mean it with all your heart & soul & ask God to fill you with His Spirit & empower you to overflow until you absolutely explode into your witnessing, litnessing, FFing, whatever it is, until you really explode by the powerful orgasm of the Spirit that'll sow those seeds where they can't get rid of them & they are bound to bring fruit whether they like it or not!
57. Call it what you like: Inspiration, charisma, enthusiasm, emotion, personality or the Spirit.--You've gotta have something that brings you to life, spurs you to action, moves you into motion!
58. Give us power in our witness & real anointing in our words so that we shall really excite them & thrill them & woo them & win them. Really pump it out of us & into them to bear lots of fruit, Lord, lots of real love babies, Thy children, true disciples.
(See also No. 32, 92, 328, 1002, 1091.)
59. 2CH.31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
60. ECC.9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
61. 2CO.8:11,12 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
62. GAL.4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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