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Contentment is an undervalued grace.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
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Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
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The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
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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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Secular humanism debases the human.
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Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.
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Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
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If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.
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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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Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
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God made everything else but man after its kind' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
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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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The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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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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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional (I feel full of worship or The atmosphere is so worshipful). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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