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We must remember that the tree doesn't eat the fruit; others eat it. We must also remember that fruit isn't the same as "results," because fruit has in it the seed for more fruit. Fruit comes from life, the life of God flowing in and through us."
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The world was never conquered by intrigue; it was conquered by faith.
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Nearly twenty years before, Hudson Taylor had written in an editorial: "All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them." As he looked at himself, Hudson Taylor saw nothing but weakness; but as generations of Christians have studied Taylor's life, they have become acquainted with a man who dared to believe the Word of God and, by faith, carried the gospel to inland China--and sa..
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One of the key words in this letter is comfort or encouragement. The Greek word means "called to one's side to help." The verb is used eighteen times in this letter, and the noun eleven times. In spite of all the trials he experienced, Paul was able (by the grace of God) to write a letter saturated with encouragement."
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We never stand still in the Christian life; we either move forward in faith or go backward in unbelief.
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There were an estimated sixty million slaves in the Roman Empire, and a slave was looked on as a piece of property, not a person. In loving devotion, Paul had enslaved himself to Christ, to be His servant and obey His will.
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effective prayer is linked to a dedicated and obedient life.
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The secret is this: When you have the single mind, you look on your circumstances as God-given opportunities for the furtherance of the gospel, and you rejoice at what God is going to do instead of complaining about what God did not do.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what breathing is to the physical life, and if you stop breathing, you will faint.
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A igreja nao precisa de maquiagem, e, sim, de cirurgia. (p. 12)
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Deus criou numeros inteiros, tudo o mais e obra humana. (Leopold Kronecker)
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We are not saved by making promises to God; we are saved by believing God's promises to us. It was God who graciously gave His covenant to Abraham, and he responded with faith and obedience (Heb. 11:8-10). How you respond to God's promises determines what God will do in your life.
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Prayer isn't an option; it's an obligation and an opportunity for us to glorify God's name and receive his blessing. It's also an opportunity to participate in miracles.
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It's the strength of our faith and not the length of our prayers that pleases him.
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Reavivamento e a renovacao do amor da igreja por Jesus Cristo', escreveu Vance Havner.
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The test of the submissive mind is not just how much we are willing to take in terms of suffering, but how much we are willing to give in terms of sacrifice.
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The faith that conquers fear is faith in the Word, not faith in feelings.
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Your life is only as big as your faith, and your faith is only as big as your God. If you spend all your time looking at yourself, you will get discouraged, but if you look to God by faith, you will be encouraged.
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We are not saved by making promises to God but by believing the promises of God.
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As pessoas sacrificam-se por coisas que realmente gostam. (p.68)
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Um dos melhores meios de encobrir nossos pecados e assistir a um culto religioso e passar pela rotina de adoracao a Deus, evitando cuidadosamente o arrependimento. (p. 21)
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Vance Haver descreveu a igreja de maneira exata: "Nos dias de hoje somos desafiados, mas nao transformados; convencidos, mas nao convertidos. Ouvimos, mas nao praticamos; e, desse modo, enganamos a nos mesmos."
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The Bible records a great deal of history, but as Dr. A. T. Pierson said, "History is His story." What is written helps us better understand how God worked out His great plan of salvation in this world. In the Bible, historical facts are often windows for spiritual truth."
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We can learn an important lesson from Peter: Don't question the Lord's will or work, and don't try to change it. He knows what He is doing. Peter had a difficult time accepting Christ's ministry to him because Peter was not yet ready to minister to the other disciples. It takes humility and grace to serve others, but it also takes humility and grace to allow others to serve us. The beautiful thing about a submissive spirit is that it can bo..
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The witness and the walk of the minister must go together, for the work that we do flows out of the lives that we live. There
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Salvation means we are going to heaven, but submission means that heaven comes to us!
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don't permit man's books to rob you of God's wisdom. "Be"
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Don't test God's truth by the "many books" written by men; test men's books by the truth of God's Word. Yes,"
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Amy Carmichael's principles for prayer: (1) We don't need to explain to our Father things that are known to him. (2) We don't need to press him, as if we had to deal with an unwilling God. (3) We don't need to suggest to him what to do, for he himself knows what to do. If all of us took these principles to heart, think of the religious speeches that would be silenced in many prayer meetings.
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The mark of true Bible study is not knowledge that puffs up, but love that builds up (1 Cor. 8:1).
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It was the evangelicals who led the fight against slavery, child labor, poor factory conditions, and the abuse of the poor and the insane. Much of what we value in modern social legislation, and perhaps take for granted, grew out of the ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and their successors.
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You probably know the following verse well, but read it aloud as though you were hearing it for the first time. "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (v. 105). What lessons can we learn from that statement? The world is dark. It is in a constant state of moral and intellectual darkness. We have more education today and less wisdom. People make foolish decisions. The world is also dark spiritually. Satan has numbed people's..
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Man's wisdom comes from reason, while God's wisdom comes from revelation. Man's worldly wisdom will come to nothing (1 Cor. 1:19), while God's wisdom will endure forever. Because
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The fundamental problem lost sinners face isn't that they're sick and need a remedy. The problem is that they're "dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1) and need to experience resurrection."
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How rarely we weigh our neighbor in the same balance in which we weigh ourselves. " Thomas a Kempis"
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Grace is simply the undeserved favor of God. You can't earn it, buy it, or work for it. You can only receive grace as a gift.
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We're prone to want God to change our circumstances, but he wants to change our character. We think that peace comes from the outside in, when in reality it comes from the inside out.
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Storms do come to our lives. What causes them? Sometimes other people cause them. In Acts 27 Paul got into a storm because the people in charge of the ship would not listen to the Word of God. Sometimes God causes the storm to test us and build us. In Matthew 14 Jesus sent His disciples directly into a storm to teach them an important lesson of faith. Sometimes we cause the storm by disobedience--we are like Jonah running away from God, and..
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The end result of all Bible study is worship, and the end result of all worship is service to the God we love.
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The will of God ought to be a source of strength and satisfaction to the children of God, just as if they sat down to a sumptuous feast.
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God's purpose in providence is not to make us comfortable, but to make us conformable,
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God helps us in the obstacles of life. When you turn your obstacles over to the Lord, He acts. What will He do? Sometimes He overcomes the obstacles. God is with us in the hopeless places. How hopeless the Israelites were at the Red Sea! The enemy soldiers were behind them; the wilderness was around them; the sea was in front of them. But God opened a way to escape. Sometimes God removes the obstacles--the "hills" and the "mountains." He ju..
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Our purpose is to hear God speak in Jesus Christ, and to heed that Word. If our purpose is to know Christ better and exalt Him more, then whatever differences we may have in our understanding of the book will be forgotten in our worship of Him. --Warren W. Wiersbe
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Faith simply means obeying God's will in spite of feelings, circumstances, or consequences.
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