"Because the believer is united to Christ, suffering is inevitable." –Dr. Carl Trueman, Westminster Seminary @WestminsterTS
To God the Spirit’s Name
Immortal worship give,
Whose new-creating power
Makes the dead sinner live.
Isaac Watts
"As appetite comes with eating, so prayer with praying...Go into your chamber, shut the door, and cultivate the habit of praying audibly. Write prayers and burn them. Formulate your soul. Pay no attention to literary form, only to spiritual reality. Read a passage of Scripture and then sit down and turn it into prayer, written or spoken...Pray as your actual self, not as some fancied saint...Prayer is not only a necessity of faith, it is faith itself in action" (P.T. Forsyth).
"He lived for us, he died for us; he was ours and all he did, in all he suffered.”- John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 165)
"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, “You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself.” My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. A poor haul of fish will any gospel fisherman make if he takes none but those who are eager to leap into the net. Oh, for five minutes of the great Shepherd’s handiwork!" ~ Charles Spurgeon
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