K.P. Yohannan Quotes

#1. Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

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#2. When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

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#3. What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self - whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it - believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

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#4. The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.

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#5. With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

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#6. The whole message God wants to tell us is that if we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His.

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#7. gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.

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#8. No matter what Jesus faced, He lived by what He knew about Himself, not by what others thought or said about Him.

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#9. As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.

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#10. Felt other Christian charities and ministries of compassion were wrong in showing the love of Christ. No, many were doing a wonderful job. But I felt the local church should be the center for outreach, and we needed to bring the balance back.

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#11. In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself - your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

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#12. Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

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#13. Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.

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#14. Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

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#15. Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

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#16. My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

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#17. The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

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#18. The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.

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#19. Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

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#20. Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

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#21. The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

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#22. My precious brothers and sisters, I come to you today speaking on behalf of Christ, His love and His mercy for us all. Jesus came to set the captives free. And He Himself said that whoever the Son sets free, is free indeed ... We love you with Christ's love, unconditionally and always.

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#23. The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.

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#24. To obey the Lord unseen - in secret - is the foundation of genuine godly service.

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#25. If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

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#26. We must live according to what we know from Scripture, committed to a heavenly kingdom, so that our lives affect not only our home and community, and perhaps our state and country - but also the entire earth.

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#27. Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.

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#28. Maybe it doesn't seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. Maybe no one on earth understands you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him.

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#29. I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.

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#30. The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best.

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#31. Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

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#32. It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God's authority.

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#33. Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

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#34. In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

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#35. Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

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#36. Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

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#37. Jesus found His identity in Scripture and always directed these people to the Scriptures and the prophecies that spoke of Him.

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#38. We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

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#39. We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

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#40. How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

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#41. I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.

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#42. Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

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#43. Walk away from your own preoccupations ... and see the perishing multitudes.

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#44. Faith deals exclusively with believing God and His Word.

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#45. All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

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#46. Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

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