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"Be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is within you, with meekness and fear." -- Peter
She had been accustomed to look at the blessing of holiness as such a high attainment, that her general habit of soul inclined her to think it almost beyond her reach.
"Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and spirit which are his."
this used to stir feelings of resentment but today i feel honored and desire to glorify him. maybe that is sanctification
Now, in the name of the Lord Jehovah, after having deliberately "counted the cost," she resolved to enter into the bonds of an everlasting covenant, with the fixed purpose to count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus, that she might know him and the power of his resurrection, by being made conformable to his death, and raised to an entire newness of life.
Conformity to the will of God in all things was the absorbing desire of her heart.
""O, Lord, I call heaven and earth to witness that I now lay body, soul, and spirit, with all these redeemed powers, upon thine altar, to be for ever THINE!
"it has all been the work of the Spirit. I will praise him! Glory be to God in the highest! Worthy is the Lamb to receive glory, honor, and blessing! Hallelujah! the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Yes, thou dost reign unrivaled in my heart!
that if there were but one passage in his WORD by which she might test herself, and know that she was a new creature, she would never doubt again; but would resolutely believe irrespective of frames and feelings.
Had she depended on merely joyous emotions for this witness, when those emotions had subsided, and she was required to walk by faith,
But little progress, comparatively, was gained by her almost unceasing efforts to advance in the heavenly way, until the successful endeavor, just glanced at, was made; from that period, through the omnipotence of faith, she gained daily victories over the world, the flesh, and Satan.
Yes, Lord
believing that what he has promised he is fully able to perform.
may I never rest till I have the witness of the Spirit, that my heart is the temple of an indwelling God,
that Christ reigns supreme on the throne of...
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O Lord, make me holy! establish fully with me the new covenant. Thou hast said, "I will sprinkle you with clean water, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse
I feel that I have been greatly deficient, and have lost inconceivably, by not exercising that faith which takes God at his word; that faith which is apprehended in the simple illustration, "God
I have been enabled to spend much time in secret prayer this week, and I feel that I have received a new degree of strength for the holy effort; but O, how little to what I might have received, had my faith been more active and persevering!
I thought her unhappiness seemed in part to arise from the fact that she could not, by her various provocations, disturb the heavenly quietness of those around her.
This was a day of extraordinary trial. My ever-watchful foe seemed to have found out new premises to work upon.
On Thursday evening last he bore a noble testimony in class-meeting, and bids fair to be very helpful in leading others into the way of holiness.
Conversing with a minister on one occasion, who had long felt it his duty to believe, and enter into the rest of perfect love, he acknowledged that he saw but one way of entering into the enjoyment of the blessing.
for some time united in church fellowship with a denomination where a profession of holiness would have been thought fanatical.
"That sounds to me like the religion of the Bible, and if I could only see such religion carried out in the lives of those who profess to believe the Bible, I would surely give up my infidelity,
She soon found that there were those who by their lives exemplified all they professed,
all our preachers should make a point of preaching perfection to believers, constantly -- strongly- -- and explicitly,
