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Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
(Luke 9:34).
Faith must be tested, because it can only become your intimate possession through conflict.
Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith.
Faith is absolute trust in God—trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us
And God uses the reaction of your life to your circumstances to fulfill His purpose, as long as you continue to “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7).
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God
So much Christian work today has never been disciplined, but has simply come into being by impulse!
has not been made spiritual through determined discipline.
We have a tendency to forget that a person is not only committed to Jesus Christ for salvation, but is also committed, responsible, and accountable to Jesus Christ’s view of
God, the world, and of sin an...
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election by God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our preconceived ideas, our narrow-minded thinking, and all of our other allegiances—we
Sin has diverted the human race onto
another course, but it has not altered God’s purpose to the slightest degree.
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Neither gratitude nor ingratitude turned our Lord even the slightest degree away from His purpose to go “up to Jerusalem.”
but what he does during the ordinary times when there is nothing tremendous or exciting happening.
means getting your second wind spiritually.
The individual person is merged into a personal oneness with God, and God’s stride and His power alone are exhibited.
He has different ways of doing things, and we have to be trained and disciplined in His ways.
Spiritual truth is learned through the atmosphere that surrounds us, not through intellectual reasoning.
but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first.
He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.
His sacrifice for us that completely satisfied the wrath of God.
and a missionary is someone who is immersed in the truth of that revelation.
. repentance and remission of sins should be preached . . . to all nations . . .” (Luke 24:47).
Holy Spirit comes into me,
He simply brings me into oneness with the Lord Jesus.
woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9:16).
the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
In effect, He said, “Identify yourself with My interests in other people,”
This what ministry all about! What its about in section leading, coffee chats, work place, etc...
First Corinthians 13:4–8
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it is actually the love of God expre...
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And it is that love in me that effectively works through me and comes in contact with everyone I meet.
Oh yes my desire!
The key to the missionary’s devotion is that he is attached to nothing and to no one except our Lord Himself.
The duty of a faithful missionary is to concentrate on keeping his soul completely and continually open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Unheeded
Unheeded
UNHEE'DED, adjective Not heeded; disregarded; neglected.
We must get rid of the plague of the spirit of this religious age in which we live.
The central point of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
Recognize your need, but stop longing and make it a matter of action.
The effect in me is obedience, service, and prayer, and is the outcome of inexpressible thanks and adoration for the miraculous sanctification that
has been brought about in me because of the atonement through the Cross of Christ.
Impulsiveness
THOUGHTLESS ACTION
Lord, but only a calm strength that never got into a panic.
Discipleship is built entirely on the supernatural grace of God.
It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God—but we do not.
holy
Divine character
we want the witness of the Spirit before we have done what God tells us to do.
