I Live In The Spirit

The Vigor Of Our Spiritual Life Will Be In Exact Proportion To The Place Held By The Bible In Our Life And Thoughts.

It Is A Common Temptation Of Satan To Make Us Give Up The Reading Of The Word And Prayer When Our Enjoyment Is Gone; As If It Were Of No Use To Read The Scriptures When We Do Not Enjoy Them, And As If It Were Of No Use To Pray When We Have No Spirit Of Prayer...

There Were Few People, Perhaps, More Passionately Fond Of Travelling, And Seeing Fresh Places, And New Scenes, Than Myself; But Now, Since, By The Grace Of God, I Have Seen Beauty In The Lord Jesus, I Have Lost My Taste For These Things.

Christians Do Not Practically Remember That While We Are Saved By Grace, Altogether By Grace, So That In The Matter Of Salvation Works Are Altogether Excluded; Yet That So Far As The Rewards Of Grace Are Concerned, In The World To Come, There Is An Intimate Connection Between The Life Of The Christian Here And The Enjoyment And The Glory In The Day Of Christ's Appearing.

If Honest Of Heart And Uprightness Before God Were Lacking Or If I Did Not Patiently Wait On God For Instruction, Or If I Preferred The Counsel Of My Fellow-men To The Declarations Of The Word Of God, I Made Great Mistakes.