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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

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We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
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The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
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The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.
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Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
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Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
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How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
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Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.
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God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
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God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.
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Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.
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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.
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The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
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When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.
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Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.
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