Phillips Brooks
Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.
Phillips Brooks
C.F.D. Moule
Prayer, genuine and victorious, is continually offered without the least physical effort or disturbance. It is often in the deepest stillness of soul and body that it wins its longest way. But there is another side of the matter. Prayer is never meant to be indolently easy, however simple and reliant it may be. It is meant to be an infinitely important transaction between man and God. And therefore, very often…it has to be viewed as a work involving labor, persistence, conflict, if it would be prayer indeed.
C.F.D. Moule
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 151.
The more you prosper, the higher should be the proportion of your giving. There is no percentage goal in giving. Giving 10 percent of your gross income does not necessarily mean you have fulfilled the will of God. That’s not a ceiling of giving to stop at, but a floor to move from.
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 151.
Tim Chester
If we do not keep people’s eternal plight in mind, then immediate needs will force their way to the top of our agenda, and we will betray the gospel and the people we profess to love. The most loving thing we can do for the poor is to proclaim the good news of eternal salvation through Christ.
Tim Chester
Randy Smith
It is the forces of darkness using the human agents of this world. People have been fed and are entrapped in a stronghold of lies. Christians are called to break down these spiritual strongholds with a spiritual arsenal. Our battleground is the mind. The Bible, which is all about Christ (Lk. 24:27, 44), is our primary “divinely powerful” (2 Corinthians 10:4) weapon to bring people to “captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5) to be “rescued…from the domain of darkness, and transferred…to the kingdom of [light] (Col. 1:13).
Randy Smith
John MacArthur, Éphésiens, Moody, 1986, p. 370.
The sword of the Spirit is first of all a defensive weapon, capable of deflecting the blows of an opponent. It is the believer’s supreme weapon of defense against the onslaughts of Satan. Unlike the shield, however, which gives broad and general protection, the sword can deflect an attack only if it is handled precisely and skillfully. It must parry the enemy weapon exactly where the thrust is made. When Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, His defense for each temptation was a passage of Scripture that precisely contradicted the devil’s word (Matt. 4:4, 7, 10). The Christian who does not know God’s Word well cannot use it well. Satan will invariably find out where we are ignorant or confused and attack us there. Scripture is not a broadsword (rhomphaia) to be waved indiscriminately, but a dagger to be used with great precision.
John MacArthur, Ephesians, Moody, 1986, p. 370.
Charles H. Spurgeon
In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism, Fleming H. Revell Company, p. 94.
Jesus did not expect more from his disciples than they could do, but He did expect their best, and this He expected always to be improved as they grew in knowledge and grace. His plan of teaching, by example, assignment, and constant checkup, was calculated to bring out the best that was in them.
Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism, Fleming H. Revell Company, p. 94.
Bryan Chapell, Holiness, 2001, page 193.
Christian maturity requires that we ask whether we are more motivated by gratitude for God’s mercy or by a futile attempt to earn it.
Bryan Chapell, Holiness, 2001, page 193.
Les promesses de Dieu sont des fleurs qui pousse dans le paradis des écritures ; la méditation, comme l'abeille, aspire à leur douceur. Les promesses ne sont d'aucune utilité ni confort pour nous, jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient médités. Les roses suspendues dans le jardin peuvent donner un parfum parfumé, pourtant leur eau douce n'est distillée que par le feu. Juste comme cela, les promesses sont certes douces dans la lecture, mais l'eau de ces roses, et la quintessence des promesses, ne sont distillées dans l'âme que par la méditation. L'encens, lorsqu'il est martelé et battu, sent d'un parfum des plus doux. Méditer sur une promesse, comme le battement de l'encens, la rend de fait plus parfumée et agréable. Les promesses peuvent être comparées à une mine d'or, qui ne s'enrichit que lorsque l'or est creusé. Par la Sainte méditation, nous creusons cet or spirituel qui se cache au milieu de la promesse, et donc nous venons à être enrichis.
Thomas Watson
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 154.
The world wants God’s money. Advertising tells us that. We also have the same desire everyone else does – the Bible calls this desire the flesh – to spend money selfishly. And the Devil would have us waste money because he is our enemy and the Enemy of God’s Kingdom, and he wants to ruin our life and the work of God. But God tells us how to manage His money in ways that will ultimately benefit us most and bring us greater joy than using our money our way.
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 154.
Sam Storms, One Thing, Christian Focus, 2004, p.173.
There never will come a time [in heaven] when we will know all that can be known or see or feel or experience or enjoy all that can be enjoyed. We will never plumb the depths of gratification in God nor reach its end. Our satisfaction and delight in Him are subject to incessant increase. When it comes to heavenly euphoria, words such as termination and cessation and expiration and finality are utterly inappropriate and inapplicable.
Sam Storms, One Thing, Christian Focus, 2004, p.173.
La chaire ne doit pas être utilisée pour expérimenter la doctrine. La doctrine devrait déjà être réglée avant même qu'elle n'atteigne la chaire. Le sanctuaire ne doit pas être un laboratoire théologique personnel, et le peuple de Dieu est utilisé comme souris blanche. Cela peut avoir des effets profondément dommageables comme on l'a déjà vu à travers l'histoire de l'Église. Les hommes ont souvent utilisé les chaires pour prêcher et à travers des doctrines qu'ils doivent encore comprendre ou saisir pleinement.
C. Matthew McMahon
The pulpit is not to be used to experiment in doctrine. Doctrine should already be settled before it ever reaches the pulpit. The sanctuary should not be a personal theological laboratory, and the people of God used as white mice. This can have profoundly damaging affects as already seen through the history of the church. Men have often used the pulpits to preaching and through doctrines which they have yet to understand, or fully grasp.
C. Matthew McMahon
John MacArthur
We would never know God’s righteousness unless there’s a backdrop of sin; we would never know His saving love unless there’s the backdrop of unworthiness and unloveliness. We would never understand His wrath if there were not an opportunity for judgment. We would never know His mercy if there were not an opportunity for forgiveness. We would never understand grace if He could not bless those who are unworthy.
John MacArthur
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans : Atonement and Justification, 1970, p.19.
How do you know whether a man is a Christian? The answer is that his mouth is “shut”. I like this forthrightness of the Gospel. People need to have their mouths shut, “stopped”. They are forever talking about God, and criticizing God, and pontificating about what God should or should not do, and asking, “Why does God allow this and that?” You do not begin to be a Christian until your mouth is shut, is stopped, and you are speechless and have nothing to say.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans: Atonement and Justification, 1970, p.19.
Phillips Brooks
The glory of the star, the glory of the sun – we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.
Phillips Brooks
John MacArthur, Hebrews Commentary, Moody, 1983, p. 334.
Christians whose faith does not extend to heaven will have their eyes on the things of this world and will wonder why they are not happier in the Lord. Nothing in this life, including God’s most abundant earthly blessings, will give a believer the satisfaction and joy that come with absolute assurance of future glory.
John MacArthur, Hebrews Commentary, Moody, 1983, p. 334.
Augustin
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
Augustine
Paul Barnett, 2 Corinthiens, Eerdmans, 1977, p. 80.
Paul’s experience of suffering and comfort in the course of his ministry is replicated in every generation in the lives of godly missionaries and pastors in their interrelationships with their congregations. While both minister and people suffer as they bear witness to Christ in an alien culture, there remains a distinctive role and therefore a distinctive suffering to the Christian leader. As the comfort of God is experienced in the life of the leader, so it will be passed on through ministry to the people [see 2 Cor 1:3-7].
Paul Barnett, 2 Corinthians, Eerdmans, 1977, p. 80