faith means that God’s Word is more real to us than our experiences, feelings, and circumstances.
Today's Gleanings from Medellin, Colombia
It is thus that patience has her perfect work. Praying in spite of the enemy’s effort to hinder, watching against anything that might delay the blessing, trusting even though “hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” assured that God is faithful and will not suffer you to be tempted, or tested, above what you are able to bear. Faith looks to Him and cries, “I will trust, and not be afraid.”
H. A. Ironside,
Praying in the Holy Spirit (New York: Loizeaux, 1946), 30.
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His will is, not that inbred sin should be rooted-out of you, but that through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, sin shall not reign in your mortal body.”
H. A. Ironside,
Praying in the Holy Spirit (New York: Loizeaux, 1946), 32.
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“What is it to pray in the name of the Lord Jesus?” And the answer is clearly this: To pray in His name is to ask by His authority; and to ask by His authority is to ask in accordance with His will as revealed in His Word
H. A. Ironside,
Praying in the Holy Spirit (New York: Loizeaux, 1946), 38–39.
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To pray in the name of Jesus I must be intelligent as to the mind of Christ, and be in fellowship with Him as to God’s present and future plans.
H. A. Ironside,
Praying in the Holy Spirit (New York: Loizeaux, 1946), 39–40.
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If, therefore, I pray and there seems to be no answer, it would be well for me to remember the Word of the Lord, “When thou prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father in secret.” Thus removed from all human interruption or worldly distraction, let there be a period of honest self-examination in the quiet presence of God. Ask yourself, for instance, such questions as the following, and do not fear to answer each one faithfully and honestly:
1. Am I truly desirous that God’s will should be done in me at whatever cost?
2. In presenting this particular request which I have been bringing to God, am I seeking His glory or my own pleasure?
3. Is there anything in my life with which God has a controversy?
4. Have I been guilty of any known sin which lies unconfessed and unjudged upon my conscience?
5. Am I consciously yielded to God and endeavoring to walk in obedience to His Word?
6. Have I availed myself of the instruction which I might have had in this Word of God, by meditating upon it carefully day by day that thus I may learn His will?
7. If my own heart condemns me along any of these lines, do I now honestly judge in myself everything that He by the Spirit through the Word shows me to be contrary to His mind?
H. A. Ironside,
Praying in the Holy Spirit (New York: Loizeaux, 1946), 43–44.
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it is exceptionally strange that we do not find any instructions or commands in Scripture for rebuking or binding Satan; instead, we find the important command to resist the Devil.
Robert Dean Jr. and Thomas Ice,
What the Bible Teaches about Spiritual Warfare (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2000), 148.
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Some of Satan’s primary tactics are to influence people through false doctrine and reliance upon their emotions rather than on the truth of God’s Word
Robert Dean Jr. and Thomas Ice,
What the Bible Teaches about Spiritual Warfare (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2000), 160.
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faith means that God’s Word is more real to us than our experiences, feelings, and circumstances.
Robert Dean Jr. and Thomas Ice,
What the Bible Teaches about Spiritual Warfare (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2000), 163.
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God loves us even though we are what we are—selfish, hateful, unkind, slanderous, wretched people.
R. Larry Moyer,
Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons, Show Me How Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic & Professional, 2012), 165.
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An evangelistic speaker must be direct. We are aiming for the heart. Our goal is not to make the audience feel bad but to let the audience know they are bad. Although loved by God, they are sinners separated from Him. Without Christ, hell is their eternal destiny. At the same time, we want to win the audience, not turn them away.
R. Larry Moyer,
Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons, Show Me How Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic & Professional, 2012), 165.
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Trust ourselves and we get what we can do. Trust Jesus Christ and we get what God can do!
Warren W. Wiersbe,
Be What You Are: 12 Intriguing Pictures of the Christian from the New Testament (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1988), 84.
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Vance Havner once said, “In a day when the living faith of the dead has become the dead faith of the living, just as America needs to get back to the Constitution, so the church needs to return to the cross and the Bible.”
Warren W. Wiersbe, Be What You Are: 12 Intriguing Pictures of the Christian from the New Testament (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1988), 91.
