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Pray daily for pastors in the Slavic countries (as well as your own) that they will have wisdom and power from God to preach the Word effectually and to care for all of the saints. Pray that the convicting power of the Holy Spirit will accompany the preaching of God’s Word throughout all lands. Ask God to stir up Christians to use their God-given freedom to the fullest advantage in making known everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ. “Freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8). |
Natures, 2
Genuine patience is part of the New Nature Package; don’t neglect it.
At any given moment, do you know if you are thinking or acting in the Flesh or in the Spirit?
Both of my natures are jealous: one for itself, the other for God.
If you try to please both your new nature and your old nature, you will please neither.
Inhibit your old nature, exhibit your new nature.
You can’t change your human nature, but you can control it.
My two natures compete for domination of my life.
When I indulge my old sinful nature, I’m pleasing Satan; when I release my new pure nature, I’m pleasing God.
We are born with a major handicap — a sinful nature; we are reborn with a major advantage — a sinless nature.
Don’t waste your time trying to change your old nature; just try to stay connected to your New Nature.
If our original sinful nature could be saving, why would we need to be implanted with a different one?
Needy people
Needy people don’t go around carrying signs saying: Please Encourage Me.
Obedience
If Jesus learned about obedience through suffering, how do we learn to obey our Father in Heaven?
Offense
The one who gives offense and the one who takes offense are both in the wrong.
Better to be offended by the Gospel than never to have heard it.
Omnipresence
There isn’t a place where God isn’t.
Opinion
The Lord never has to say: “This is my opinion.”
Owner/manager
God is my owner even when I act like he’s not.
How I use free will is the only thing I can call my own; everything else, including free will, belongs to God.
I am not my own; therefore, I must not harm, neglect or spoil myself.
We are on God’s earth, on God’s time, with God’s resources.
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The Lord will resume His dealing with the nations, as well as with the Chosen nation, when He has completed the church in this Age of Grace. God is working today “to take out” of the nations “a people for His name” (Acts 15:14). Ask God to empower every witness that is proclaiming this message of love to sinful men. Pray continually that the Holy Spirit will convict men of their need of Christ. “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). |