William Thomas
We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Thomas
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William Thomas
We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Thomas
Jean Chrysostome, Homélies sur l'Évangile de saint Matthieu, 19:4.
[We pray] not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, 19:4.
1. Une compréhension de votre propre insignifiance et de votre péché.
2. La connaissance que Jésus est votre seul accès au Père.
3. L'adoration de Dieu à cause de son caractère et de ses attributs.
4. La louange joyeuse de l'œuvre de Dieu dans la création et la rédemption.
5. Remerciements pour la bonté de Dieu qui donne toutes les bonnes choses.
6. Un sentiment de votre besoin de force pour lutter contre des péchés spécifiques.
7. Confiance humble en demandant au Père de répondre à chaque besoin.
8. Un fardeau désintéressé pour prier pour les autres.
9. Une soif d'accroître la sagesse et la compréhension spirituelles.
Daryl Wingerd
Nine Characteristics of Biblical Prayer:
1. An Understanding of Your Own Insignificance and Sinfulness.
2. The Knowledge that Jesus is Your Only Access to the Father.
3. Adoration for God because of His Character and Attributes.
4. Joyful Praise for God’s Work in Creation and Redemption.
5. Thankfulness for God’s Kindness in Giving Every Good Thing.
6. A Sense of Your Need of Strength to Fight against Specific Sins.
7. Humble Trust as You Ask the Father to Meet Every Need.
8. A Selfless Burden to Pray for Others.
9. A Thirst for Increasing Spiritual Wisdom and Understanding.
Daryl Wingerd
J.I. Packer
The unceasing activity of the Creator, whereby in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
J.I. Packer
Henry Drummond
Where is the capacity for heaven to come from if it be not developed on earth? Where, indeed, is even the smallest appreciation of God and heaven to come from when so little of spirituality has ever been known or manifested here?
Henry Drummond
Sam Storms, One Thing, Christian Focus, Enjoying God Ministries, 2004, p.23.
God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn’t simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we’ve been created to join the party!
Sam Storms, One Thing, Christian Focus, Enjoying God Ministries, 2004, p.23.
Theodore Epp
We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be viewed in the light of eternity.
Theodore Epp
Sinclair Ferguson, The Sermon on the Mount, 1997, p. 41.
Christians are persecuted for the sake of righteousness because of their loyalty to Christ. Real loyalty to Him creates friction in the hearts of those who pay Him only lip service. Loyalty arouses their consciences, and leaves them with only two alternatives: follow Christ, or silence Him. Often their only way of silencing Christ is by silencing His servants. Persecution, in subtle or less subtle forms, is the result.
Sinclair Ferguson, The Sermon on the Mount, 1997, p. 41.
Charles Spurgeon
The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer. Christ is our Joseph, who has granaries full of wheat; but He does not treat us as Joseph did the Egyptians, for He opens the door of His storehouse and bids us call all the good therein our own. He has entailed upon His estate of Providence a perpetual charge of a daily portion for us, and He has promised that one day we shall clearly perceive that the estate itself has been well-farmed on our behalf and has always been ours. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
Charles Spurgeon
John MacArthur
If you’re going to triumph over temptation, you must hate it. You must feel afflicted by it. You must feel the pain of it, the assault of it, the repulsiveness of it. Their needs to be an agonizing in prayer because you love holiness and you hate sin.
John MacArthur
Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness par Jerry Bridges, 1996, p. 93.
There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges, 1996, p. 93.
John Piper
Suffering is generally portrayed in the Bible as the necessary and God-ordained, though not God-pleasing, plight of this fallen world (Romans 8:20-25, Ezekiel 18:32), and especially the necessary portion of all who would enter the kingdom (Acts 14:22; 1 Thessalonians 3:3-4) and live lives of godliness (2 Timothy 3:12). This suffering is never viewed merely as a tragedy. It is also viewed as a means of growing deep with God and becoming strong in this life (Romans 5:3-5; James 1:3-4; Hebrews 12:3-11; 2 Corinthians 1:9; 4:7-12; 12:7-10) and becoming something glorious in the life to come (2 Corinthians 4:17; Romans 8:18).
John Piper
Matthew Henry
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Matthew Henry
Timothy Warner, Spiritual Warfare, Crossway, 1991, p. 59-60.
Our Western worldview gets involved here once again. We have a strong tendency to want to analyze everything and place the parts in neat, mutually exclusive categories. So we ask questions like, How do I know whether it is the world, the flesh, or the devil? My response is that most situations will involve some of each element to some extent… (They) are treated as working together so closely that you cannot talk about one without talking about the other. The flesh is the earthly qualities about which enable us to respond to the temptation. The world is the milieu in which we live and which is under the control of “the ruler of the kingdom of the air.” Satan and his demons know what fleshly parts of us are especially vulnerable, and they use the stimuli of the world around us to arouse sinful thought in us. The Devil would be a fool not to try to take advantage of the world and the flesh in his aim to destroy us.
Timothy Warner, Spiritual Warfare, Crossway, 1991, p. 59-60.
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