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Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
Lilias Trotter
In the most challenging aspect of your life - regardless if it be outwardly or inwardly - anticipate God to overflowingly prevail. In that same exact spot, He is able to make your spirit bloom.
2.
When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.
Lilias Trotter
3.
Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.
Lilias Trotter
4.
Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.
Lilias Trotter
5.
The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.
Lilias Trotter
