150. YIELDEDNESS
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He must increase, but I must decrease (Jn.3:30).
1. When you become nothing but a tool and a channel--nothing but a little diamond of dust, then God can really use you!
2. Father, let me dedicate
All this year to Thee,
In whatever earthly state
Thou wilt have me be:
Not from sorrow, pain, or care,
Freedom dare I claim;
This alone shall be my prayer,
"Glorify Thy Name"!
3. A little girl was walking home with her father one night. As they trudged along in the darkness she said, "Take my hand, Papa! I can take only a piece of yours, but you can take the whole of mine."
4. Jesus bought & paid for us, we're His property, we belong to Him now. He can do whatever He wants to with us.
5. When your will is in perfect harmony with God's Will, you have perfect peace & heavenly rest.
6. God doesn't expect you to do it. All He expects you to do is obey & He'll do it through you.
7. Let go & let God!
8. God only uses broken men & women--no others will do.
9. You quit having a battle when you surrender.
10. When He can get you out of the way, then He has a chance!
11. The oil flows freely through a wick that is yielded & deeply soaked in the oil! Then it is the oil that burns & not the wick, & gives bright pure clear light to all the house, in the beauty of His perfection, in the holiness of His light!
12. Our own spirits are still unrestrained & must be voluntarily under the Lord's control, or they can certainly lead us astray just as bad as an evil spirit! They become evil spirits in disobedience!
13. The best ability is availability.
14. Many are called but few get up.
15. God will mend a broken heart if you will give Him all the pieces.
16. Truth resisted loses its power over the mind!
17. Unless God is able to break your spirit, you can never be useful to the Lord.
18. Afflictions cannot injure when blended with submission.
19. I don't mind being used if I'm being used by the right God and the right people.
20. The more you resist the Spirit of God, the more control the Enemy has.
21. You'll never know the Truth until you are willing to let your false conceptions & preconceived notions be destroyed.
22. Don't be like the gardener who could do anything--but wouldn't!
23. Thank the Lord for softening our hearts, so often hardened by our own selfishness! It's only as we yield to His Love that we melt!
24. If you fight God too hard, God'll fight you!
25. There is no limit to what God can do with a man who is yielded & willing to do His Will!
26. God has to break you, melt you & mold you again in the hands of the Potter to make you a better vessel, so you're willing to go anywhere, anytime, and do anything for anybody, and be nobody to please Him and help everybody!
27. The Lord always prefers volunteers.
28. The answer's always there if you're willing to receive it, but if you resist the answer He gives, He shuts up because you won't listen.
29. I don't like to give orders, I like to make offers!
30. Jesus can use anything if it's yielded, obedient and willing to be filled with His Love!
31. God will use anything you've got if you'll let Him.
32. He that fails to be broken upon the Rock of God, will someday find the Rock falling upon him & crushing him to powder & dust, which the winds of His judgements will blow away! (Mat.21:44.)
33. When you have yielded your life to God on His altar of sacrifice & asked Him to take it, He will--& He will try to use it for His glory as much as you will let Him.
34. If the Lord can find the workers, He'll furnish the pay. If He can find the yielded hearts & minds & wills that are willing to obey & go & do it, He'll foot the bill!
35. All He needs is for you to say yes & take the job, & He'll pay the salary.
36. Spiritual resistance causes spiritual callousness! Every time we resist God's Spirit, our hearts grow harder, until He will strive with us no more & we are destroyed without remedy!
37. The yielding of the tongue is a very symbolic yielding, because anything that can conquer the tongue conquers the whole. Therefore the surrender of the tongue is like the surrender of the whole.
38. You are God's expendables, created to burn out on His altar of sacrifice, made to wear out as His tools of design, to die that others may live.
39. The only way the candle can ever be a flame is to be completely consumed!
40. He can make something out of nothing--even you, if you'll listen, trust, and obey.
41. Come, as Wisdom to children
Come, as new Sight to the blind
Come, Lord, as Strength to my weakness
Take me--soul, body & mind.
42. If you don't like the way you're made, give God a chance to re-make you.
43. We give all & obey all, and our lives overflow with joy, & our satisfaction knows no bounds & our happiness knows no equal.
44. God knows no hours! You never know when you are going to be needed--24 hours a day, seven days a week!--You're a Soul Doctor!
45. You can be whatever God wants you to be if you're willing.
46. The Lord wants volunteers, not draftees.
47. Are you willing to be crucified for others as He was for you?
48. You can bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink.
49. The hardest thing to give is in.
50. When the will is ready the feet are light.
51. Give yourself to God: He can do more with you than you can.
52. O God, let my eyes behold Thy glory and my heart receive Thy beauty and my body know Thy truth and my soul feel Thy Love forever and ever and ever!
53. If you're willing to be what God wants you to be, not what you are, but what God wants you to be, then He can mightily use you.
54. I don't care how much of a genius you are!--If you don't stay close to the Lord, God can't use your genius! If you don't dedicate it to God and have it bathed in prayer & the Holy Spirit, God can't use your talent!
55. If I'd stubbornly clung to my own way,
We would never be where we are today!
56. Sometimes you have to accept God's "no", in order to find His "yes"!
57. Your most needed abilities are availability & adaptability!
58. You should ride the waves instead of trying to stop them!
59. Let the wave carry you instead of drown you or destroy you!
60. You can't do much for people who don't want to be delivered.
61. If your breaking process is not yet complete, don't leave school before the bell rings.
62. We're not "Christian Triers", but "Lord Letters".
63. Quit trying to get the victory over something God ordained you to do.
64. He that will not when he may,
When he will, shall then have nay.
65. Surrender isn't giving up what you don't want. It's giving up what you do want.
66. God is not as much concerned with your ability as with your availability.
67. Shoes are like people--the soft soul gives & gives, & the hard soul resists.
68. Ready to go, ready to stay
--Ready my place to fill;
Ready for service, lowly or great
--Ready to do Thy Will!
69. I'll go where You want me to go, dear Lord,
O'er mountain or plain or sea;
I'll say what You want me to say, dear Lord,
I'll be what You want me to be!
70. All you need to do is just yield & obey, & leave the consequences & results in the hands of the Lord.
71. The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. It is not a question of who you are, or of what you are, but whether God controls you.
(See also Nos. 3, 31, 33, 35, 48, 66, 74, 75, 77, 203, 301c, 399, 575, 721, 727, 829, 847, 960, 974, 1372, 1373, 1380, 1427, 1468, 1493, 1644.)
72. GEN.22:2,12 And He said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.... And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me. (Gen.22:1-14.)
73. 2CH.30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord and enter into His sanctuary, which He hath sanctified forever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
74. JOB.1:21 Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord.
75. PSA.139:23,24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there by any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
76. PSA.143:10 Teach me to do Thy Will; for Thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good: lead me into the land of uprightness.
77. ECC.10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
78. ISA.64:8 Now, O Lord, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and Thou our potter; and we are all the work of Thy hand.
79. MAT.6:10 Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven.
80. MAT.21:44 And whosoever shall fall upon this Stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever It shall fall, It will grind him to powder.
81. MAT.26:39 And He went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt.
82. LUK.1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Thy Word.
83. JON.3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
84. ROM.6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
85. ROM.6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
86. ROM.12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
87. 1CO.15:31b I die daily.
88. COL.3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
89. HEB.6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
90. JAM.4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
91. JAM.4:15 For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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