Terri Blackstock Quotes

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.

Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.

In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!

Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.