A WILLINGNESS TO BE NOTHING AND KNOW NOTHING BUT HIM WHO IS ALL IN ALL

from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers - August 14

"Am I fully prepared to allow God to grip me by His power and do a work in me that is truly worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me - sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me. But He has to get me into the state of mind and spirit where I will alow Him to sanctify me completely, whatever the cost (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24)"

from the same - August 4

"God's friendship is with people who know their poverty. He can accomplish nothing with the person who thinks that he is of use to God. As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all - we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same."

from Ken Boa's ministry newsletter, Reflections

"Renunciation is an attitude of the heart; it is a matter of apprehending our spiritual poverty rather than a commitment to material poverty. Nevertheless, it does involve abnegating our right to possess anything as well as a looser grip on the things we already possess in order that they do not possess us. This includes not only property, but position, friendships, and even reputation. Listen to a portion of another prayer by Tozer: 'Make me ambitious to please Thee even if as a result I must sink into obscurity and my name be forgotten as a dream.'"

from Elisabeth Elliot's Keep a Quiet Heart

"You can never lose what you have offered to Christ."