*Success is never falling, but rising every time you do.
God has revealed His mystery and we all have to be ready for His coming. There will be no excuses.
There shall be no time for parting words or a change of mind
when the Lord appears.
~J. C. Ryle~
In times of silence and reflection of your wants, goals need, and beliefs, really listen to your intuition for I believe it is then that you hear GOD's wisdom and direction... Be still and hear the answers you seek...
- God's word shows us the standard of purity, so we know what is
right and what is wrong.
- God's word shows us the reasons for purity, so we understand the
wisdom and goodness of God's commands.
- God's word shows us the difficulty of purity and reminds us to be
on guard.
- God's word shows us the blessings of purity and gives us the
incentive to make the necessary sacrifices.
It is no coincidence that the phrase, "walk by faith," is used in Scripture. Notice that Scripture doesn't tell us to sprint by faith; it tells us to walk by faith. To walk speaks of continual, regulated motion. The Bible says Enoch walked with God. Many believers have bursts of energy. For a few months, they run. Then they collapse for a while. They need to learn what it is to walk with God. The Bible declares that the just shall live by faith. Not by feeling. Not by emotion. Not by fear. Not by worries. But by faith!
"If you truly want to exercise self-control, you have to start by controlling your thoughts."
We are strongest in the Lord when we operate in the realm of human weakness.
Charles Spurgeon said,
“Why, dear friends, the Christian man, after he is saved, repents more than ever he did before, for now he repents not merely of overt deeds, but even of imaginations. He will take himself to task at night, and chide himself because he had tolerated one foul thought; because he has looked on vanity, though perhaps the heart had gone no further than the look of lust; because the thought of evil has flitted through his mind — for all this he will vex himself before God; and were it not that he still continues to believe the gospel, one foul imagination would be such a plague and sting to him, that he would have no peace and no rest. When temptation comes to him the good man finds the use of repentance, for having hated sin and fled from it of old, he has ceased to be what he once was.”
“Many a Christian has his pardon sealed in the court of heaven before it is sealed in the court of his own conscience.” — Thomas Brooks “Remember, he will complete his work (Phil. 1:6).” — Richard Sibbes
The Westminster divines were using "passion" not as we do to mean intense zeal. They were saying, God does not have an emotional life as we do. He is a Pure Act; nothing happens to him. He is never rendered passive. — Kevin DeYoung, Don’t Be True to Yourself, 4. “Live as if you are forgiven and cleansed by Christ’s blood because that is who you are.” — Deepak Reju “An unchurched Christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought." — John Stott “The Spirit and the word are like the veins and arteries in the body that gives life to the whole.” — Richard Sibbes
“You cannot be vitally joined to Christ while being willfully separated from His body.” - Beeke and Smalley. RST 1:468 “Who you are in Christ is your truest, deepest, and most fundamental identity.” — Deepak Reju “Full assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to satisfaction.” — C.H. Spurgeon “Oh that the Bible might be seen printed in our lives!” - Thomas Watson. Body of Divinity, 37. “Preaching is God the Father proclaiming God the Son in the power of God the Spirit through sent human messengers.” — Scott R. Swain, The Trinity: An Introduction, 130. “Now where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty, that is, a freedom not to enslave our judgments, much less conscience, to any man.” — Richard Sibbes
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