Faith & Trust
Conversion is another kind of work than most are aware of; it is not a small matter to bring an earthly mind to heaven, and to shew man the amiable excellencies of God, till he be taken up in such love to him, that can never be quenched.
It is the genius of His plan to send the Spirit that swayed Him to live in us.
A converted man is illuminated to discern the loveliness of God; and his heart is set more upon it than any thing in this world.
What is my barrenness? It is the platform for his fruit-creating power.
God alone can effect the change. God alone, who gave us the Holy Spirit, can restore the Holy Spirit in power into our life.
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God’s almighty power. That is what the Christian needs.
Oneness with Christ must, in the very nature of things, consist in a Christ-like life and character.
A look into the face of Christ is transforming.
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
It takes the whole man to pray, and prayer affects the entire man.
Believe this, and all inability will disappear. As it is fabled of Midas that he turned everything into gold by his touch, so it is true of faith that it turns everything it touches into good.
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
God works to will, and then He works to do.
Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
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