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there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!
The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.Suffering, Sin0The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.
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Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
Truth, Error0Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.
Prayer0I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
Prayer0One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Prayer0Here then is the design of prayer: not that God's will may be altered, but that it may be accomplished in His own good time and way. It is because God has promised certain things that we can ask for them with the full assurance of faith.
https://www.monergism.com/sovereignty-god-unabridgedPrayer, God's Sovereignty0How many a young man, never called of God, has been pressed into the ministry by well-meaning friends who had more zeal than knowledge. None may rightly count upon the divine blessing in the service of Christ unless he has been expressly set apart thereto by the Holy Spirit (Ac 13:2)
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If you could be brought once to love secret prayer, and to converse feelingly with God in his word, your heaven will begin on earth; you will enjoy more pleasure than in all manner of riches.
Prayer0Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word.
Knowing God0God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him.
Systematic Theology A LecturePrayer0Systematic Theology A Lecture
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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the very manner of their publication plainly showed that God Himself assigned to the Decalogue peculiar importance. The Ten Commandments were uttered by God in an audible voice, with the fearful adjuncts of clouds and darkness, thunders and lightnings and the sound of a trumpet, and they were the only parts of Divine Revelation so spoken—none of the ceremonial or civil precepts were thus distinguished. Those Ten Words, and they alone, were written by the finger of God upon tables of stone, and they alone were deposited in the holy ark for safekeeping. Thus, in the unique honor conferred upon the Decalogue, we may perceive its paramount importance in the divine government.
https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1Ten Commandments, The Law0Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency.
Prayer0What is prayer? It is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ.
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False theology makes God's foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God's election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect
Foreknowledge, Election0All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Prayer0I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
Prayer0The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Prayer0Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Prayer0the perpetuity of the Law appears in God's writing it in the hearts of His people at their new birth ( Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 36:26,27).
https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1Ten Commandments, The Law0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Prayer0the character of God Himself must change before the Law (the rule of His government) can be revoked.
https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1Ten Commandments, The Law0Salvation is a free gift, but an empty hand must receive it, and not a hand which still tightly grasps the world.
Salvation0I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
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