Charles H. Spurgeon
Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.
Charles H. Spurgeon
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.
Charles H. Spurgeon
David Reid, Lier Satan
Consider how our Lord Himself resisted Satan when He was tempted in the wilderness (see Matthew 4 and Luke 4.) Jesus did not "bind" Satan. In all three instances of Satan's temptations, our Lord quoted Scripture, and the devil was repelled ("he left Him for a season.") We should follow our Lord's example when attacked or tempted. And let's not forget that if we are going to quote Scripture, we must know Scripture! Our Lord quoted three times from the book of Deuteronomy. How many of us can quote three verses from the book of Deuteronomy? Knowledge of the Word of God is important for repelling Satan, and is crucial for Christian growth and living as well. As He was growing up, the Lord Jesus must have spent a lot of time memorizing the Word of God (see Luke 2:52). What an example for us to follow!
David Reid, Binding Satan
Thomas Watson
God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature.
Thomas Watson
Abraham Wright
We may feel God’s hand as a Father upon us when He strikes us as well as when He strokes us.
Abraham Wright
Pour ma part, mon âme est comme un enfant affamé et assoiffé ; et j'ai besoin de son amour et de sa consolation pour me rafraîchir. Je suis une brebis errante et perdue, et j'ai besoin de Lui comme d'un bon et fidèle berger. Mon âme est comme une colombe effrayée poursuivie par l'épervier, et j'ai besoin de ses blessures comme d'un refuge. Je suis une vigne faible, et j'ai besoin de sa croix pour m'y accrocher et m'y enrouler. Je suis un pécheur, et j'ai besoin de sa justice. Je suis nu et dénudé, et j'ai besoin de Sa sainteté et de Son innocence pour me couvrir. Je suis ignorant, et j'ai besoin de Son enseignement ; simple et insensé, et j'ai besoin de la direction de Son Saint-Esprit. Dans aucune situation, et à aucun moment, je ne peux me passer de Lui. Est-ce que je prie ? Il doit m'inciter et intercéder pour moi. Suis-je assigné par Satan devant le tribunal divin ? Il doit être mon Avocat. Suis-je dans l'affliction ? Il doit être mon Secours. Suis-je persécuté par le monde ? Il doit me défendre. Quand je suis abandonné, Il doit être mon soutien ; quand je meurs, ma vie ; quand je moisis dans la tombe, ma Résurrection. Eh bien, j'aime mieux me séparer de tout le monde et de tout ce qu'il contient, que de Toi, mon Sauveur.
Gotthold Lessing
For my part, my soul is like a hungry and thirsty child; and I need His love and consolation for my refreshment. I am a wandering and lost sheep; and I need Him as a good and faithful shepherd. My soul is like a frightened dove pursued by the hawk; and I need His wounds for a refuge. I am a feeble vine; and I need His cross to lay hold of, and to wind myself about. I am a sinner, and I need His righteousness. I am naked and bare; and I need His holiness and innocence for a covering. I am ignorant, and I need His teaching; simple and foolish, and I need the guidance of His Holy Spirit. In no situation, and at no time, can I do without Him. Do I pray? He must prompt, and intercede for me. Am I arraigned by Satan at the divine tribunal ? He must be my Advocate. Am I in affliction? He must be my Helper. Am I persecuted by the world? He must defend me. When I am forsaken, He must be my support; when I am dying, my life; when moldering in the grave, my Resurrection. Well, then, I will rather part with all the world, and all that it contains, than with Thee, my Savior.
Gotthold Lessing
L'amitié avec Jésus est la première source de fraîcheur permanente dans notre vie chrétienne. Qu'est-ce qu'un ami ? Un "ami" est une personne en accord et en attachement avec les choses les plus profondes et les plus fondamentales de la vie d'une personne. Pour être un ami de Jésus, je dois être né de nouveau de l'Esprit de Dieu. Ce n'est qu'à cette condition que j'aurai une disposition semblable à la sienne.
C'est une expérience de plaisir permanent pour tout homme ou femme de savoir qu'il ou elle a un ami "qui lui est plus proche qu'un frère" ! Jésus est ce genre d'ami. Il comprend le cœur de manière si approfondie qu'il satisfait les derniers abîmes douloureux du cœur. Jésus est prêt à être votre ami, si vous voulez bien venir à lui. Cet attachement dans une sainte amitié apportera de la fraîcheur à votre cœur et à votre vie.
Merci, Jésus, d'être mon ami personnel.
Oswald Chambers
We long for perennial freshness in our Christian lives. It is indeed a blessing to enjoy spiritual freshness at camp meeting, during a revival meeting, and in our prayer meetings; but what we yearn to know is the secret source of abiding freshness.
Friendship with Jesus is the first source of abiding freshness in our Christian lives. What is a friend? A “friend” is one in agreement and attachment to the deepest and most fundamental things of a person’s life. In order to be a friend of Jesus, I must be born again of the Spirit of God. Only then will I have a disposition like His.
It is an experience of perennial delight to any man or woman to know that he or she has a friend “that sticketh closer than a brother”! Jesus is this kind of friend. He understands the heart so thoroughly that He satisfies the last aching abyss of the heart. Jesus is ready to be your friend, if you will but come to Him. This attachment in holy friendship will bring freshness to your heart and life.
Thank You, Jesus, for being my personal friend.
Oswald Chambers
Randy Smith
“Oh Lord, don’t give me what I deserve, but give me what I need. Don’t remove the discipline, but discipline me in kindness and grace. Let not the rod be a sword, but let it be the stern hand of a loving Father that wants to turn me from my rebellious ways and make me more like Yourself. I bring none of my goodness to you, but plead on behalf of my littleness. I want the blessing of Your rebuke, but I fear the billows of Your anger. I trust You as my Father. Please correct me, change me and restore our relationship.”
Randy Smith
J.B. Phillips (1906-1982), Traducteur de la Bible, auteur, pasteur
The modern intelligent mind, which has had its horizons widened in dozens of different ways, has got to be shocked afresh by the audacious central fact that as a sober matter of history, God become one of us.
J.B. Phillips (1906-1982), Traducteur de la Bible, auteur, pasteur
A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God.
Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word. To every declaration of promise or prophecy the Lord has exactly adhered, every engagement of covenant or threatening He will make good.
A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God.
Joseph Garlington
In the beginning of a process working toward the tipping point, gravity is working against you. As you continue to work toward the tipping point, what was working against you is now working for you. Imagine several people seeking to flip over an automobile. As they begin to lift, gravity works against them, but they expect it! But they press through the resistance knowing IF they continue, they'll push pass the window of resistance to the tipping point, where the momentum is now unstoppable! The key is not to quit at the point where gravity is working against you, knowing that there is a point where that same force is now working for you! One of my favorite verses for this is 1 Corinthians 16:9 "...A wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries." Opportunity and Opposition are partners. They are the two tracks the train runs on. They are constants, you need both to get you where you're going.
Joseph Garlington
Jerry Bridges, Trusting God, 1988, p. 150.
This is not to say that every adversity that occurs in our lives through God’s discipline is related to some specific sin we have committed. The issue God is dealing with in our lives is not so much what we do, but what we are. All of us tend to underestimate the remaining sinfulness in our hearts. We fail to see the extent of pride, fleshly self-confidence, selfish ambitions, stubbornness, self-justification, lack of love, and distrust of God that He does see.
Jerry Bridges, Trusting God, 1988, p. 150.
William Tyndale
The church of Christ is the multitude of all those who believe in Christ for the remission of sins, and who are thankful for that mercy and who love the law of God purely, and who hate the sin in this world an long for the life to come.
William Tyndale
Auteur inconnu
1. Pour avoir l'occasion de glorifier sa sagesse, son amour et sa grâce infinis dans la rédemption et le salut d'une multitude de pécheurs perdus par la mort et les souffrances de son cher Fils.
2. Pour que sa patience et ses longues souffrances, en supportant et en tolérant les pécheurs, soient magnifiées, admirées et adorées.
3. Pour qu'il soit honoré et glorifié par la foi et la repentance de son peuple, et qu'il marche humblement avec lui. 4.
4. Pour que sa justice soit illustrée et glorifiée dans la damnation éternelle des pécheurs réprouvés pour leurs propres péchés et abominations, le péché étant la cause de leur damnation, mais non de leur réprobation.
Thomas Boston, Of the Decrees of God, Commentary on the Shorter Catechism.
The great, and glorious end for which God decreed the after-being of sin, is His own glory: and the ends subordinate thereunto are not a few. Particularly, God decreed the futurition of sin:
1. That He might have occasion of glorifying His infinite wisdom, love, and grace in the redemption and salvation of a company of lost sinners through the death and sufferings of His own dear Son.
2. That His patience and long suffering in bearing with and forbearing sinners, might be magnified, admired, and adored.
3. That He might be honoured and glorified by the faith and repentance of His people, and their walking humbly with Him.
4. That His justice might be illustriously displayed and glorified in the eternal damnation of reprobate sinners for their own sins and abominations, sin being the cause of their damnation, though not of their reprobation.
Thomas Boston, Of the Decrees of God, Commentary on the Shorter Catechism.
Gardiner Spring
There is a vast difference between such an affection and that selfish and unhallowed friendship to God which terminates on our own happiness as its supreme motive and end. If a man in his supposed love to God has no ultimate regard except to his own happiness, if he delights in God not for what He is but for what He is to him, in such a sentiment there is no moral virtue. There is indeed great love of self but no true love of God. But where the enmity of the carnal mind is slain, the soul is reconciled to the divine character as it is. God Himself in the fullness of His manifested glory becomes the object of devout and delighted contemplation. In his more favored hours, the views of a good man are in a great measure diverted from himself. As his thoughts glance toward the varied excellence of the deity, he scarcely stops to inquire whether the being whose character fills his mind and in comparison of whose dignity and beauty all things are atoms and vanity will extend his mercy to him. His soul cleaves to God and in the warmth and fervor of devout affection, he can often say, “Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none on the earth that I desire beside Thee, as the hart pants after the waterbrooks, so pants my soul after Thee, O God.”
Gardiner Spring
Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace, Crossway, p. 83-84.
Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God’s holiness or compel His pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer nothing for what He alone can give. Then we rest in His promise to forgive those who humbly seek Him… Repentance, therefore, is fundamentally a humble expression of a desire for a renewed relationship with God – a relationship that we confess can be secured only by His grace.
Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace, Crossway, p. 83-84.
J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men
You were placed here to train for eternity. Your body was only intended to be a house for your immortal spirit. It is flying in the face of God's purposes to do as many do – to make the soul a servant to the body, and not the body a servant to the soul.
J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men
Henry Drummond
God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore that everlasting gift, that one thing which it is certain is going to stand, that one coinage which will be current in the universe when all other coinages of all the nations of the world shall be useless and unhonored.
Henry Drummond