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I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Age: 81 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 20
Died: 1981
Died: March 1
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
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Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.
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We all tend to go to extremes some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no either/or here it is always both/and. These two things must go together.
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There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
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You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.
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Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
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There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
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If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.
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The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
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The Gospel is open to all the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
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The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
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...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.
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We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known.
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I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.
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Conviction is not repentance conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
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