Top 89 Nancy Leigh DeMoss Quotes
#1. I often wonder what supernatural acts God would perform in our world-things He is ready, willing, eager, and able to do-if we would just approach Him and make our requests known.
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#2. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
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#3. Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it - our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.
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#4. An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.
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#5. Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.
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#6. As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).
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#7. As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can't live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to 'work.' That's a childish instinct, to say, 'Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now'.
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#8. God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.
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#9. Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD ... but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.
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#10. Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
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#11. Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.
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#12. The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.
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#13. We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.
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#14. False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.
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#15. Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.
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#16. The apostle Paul said, "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you" (2 Corinthians 12:15 KJV). That's part of what is involved in ministering to others, whether in a synagogue, a Sunday school class, or a house full of little ones.
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#17. Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!
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#18. Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.
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#19. What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.
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#20. You will never be more secure, you will never be more safe, and you will never be happier, more satisfied, than when you are trusting and obeying: resting in sovereignty and surrendering to sovereignty.
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#21. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.
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#22. The fact is, we will all be broken - sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness - we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.
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#23. I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable
in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?
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#24. Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed.
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#25. There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart
God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself
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#26. Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-revealing top is called suggestive. What does it suggest? That there is more than what you now see, and I may let you look closer since I'm already willing to give you this much of a peek.
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#27. The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.
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#28. Mark it down - your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.
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#29. Jesus was not conquered by death. By His death, He conquered death.
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#30. Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.
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#31. Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.
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#32. Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness of our Lord. It is the appropriate response to God's person, His provision, His power, His promises, and His plan.
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#33. You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.
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#34. God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance ... but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.
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#35. O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.
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#36. Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.
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#37. Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.
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#38. Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.
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#39. The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.
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#41. Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted!
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#43. We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.
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#44. Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.
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#45. Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?
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#46. You have no idea when or how God will answer your prayers, but don't stop praying.
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#47. Listening to counsel or ways of thinking that are not according to the Truth is the first step in developing wrong beliefs that will ultimately place us in bondage. Once we have listened to the lie, the next step toward bondage is that we . . . DWELL ON THE LIE.
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#48. Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past. ELLEN VAUGHN1
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#49. What we believe about ourselves determines how we live. If we believe and act on lies, we will end up in bondage,
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#50. Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
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#51. Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.
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#52. Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.
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#53. Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word
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#54. When God calls you to do something, He provides everything it takes to get it done.
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#55. Avenues - television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life.
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#56. We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.
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#57. Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It's the means of protection. It's the means of joy. It's the means to finding God's best in our lives.
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#59. Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
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#60. I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.
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#61. Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but "be holy." ... "Everyone who names the name of the Lord" is called to live a holy life!
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#62. God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.
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#63. The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.
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#64. Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
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#65. Oh, God show me more of Your holiness.
Show me more of my sinfulness.
Help me to hate sin and to love righteousness as You do.
Grant me a deeper conviction of sin and a more thorough spirit of repentance.
And make me holy as You are holy.
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#66. No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.
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#67. God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.
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#68. True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.
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#69. An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.
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#70. But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.
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#71. Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.
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#72. The older we get, the bigger the catalog of failures Satan can throw in our faces. You may think, 'I don't have anything to offer.' But you can teach out of your failures as well as your successes (p. 223).
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#73. Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love.
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#74. The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God
it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.
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#75. Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying "Yes, Lord!" - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.
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#76. You cannot expect to be victorious if the day begins only in your own strength.
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#77. Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.
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#78. To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.
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#79. Your Name is holy. May Your Name be worshiped and honored by Your people everywhere. May our lives in no way bring disrespect or dishonor to your great Name. And may all peoples of the earth come to revere Your sacred Name.
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#81. There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.
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#82. Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know it's true. And He's not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.
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#83. True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.
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#84. In every situation and circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
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#85. Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.
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#86. True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain
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#87. Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.
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#88. Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.
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#89. Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?
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