Strength & Perseverance
You are not yet out of the gunshot of the devil; let nothing that is on this side the other world get within you.
Then did Christian draw, for he saw it was time to bestir him; and Apollyon as fast made at him, throwing darts as thick as hail; by the which, notwithstanding all that Christian could do to avoid it, Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand, and foot.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
We owe the devil no such service.
This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it, to extinguish and put it out, is the devil.
Cling therefore about thy God for strength; get him with thee, and then, though a worm, thou shalt deal with this serpent.
The reason why the Church can not overcome the enemy is, because she don’t know how to use the sword of the Spirit.
They are well kept whom God keeps, but woe unto those who go forth into the world, or even dare to walk their own house unarmed.
He must yield before His advance, and he must yield before this man who stands for Jesus down on the earth.
The Enemy strives to make us languid in doing good by depression, but when he sees that we do not cease our efforts to work, and that those efforts become all the more earnest by reason of their being made in resistance to him, he leaves off troubling us.
It is a fiercely contested conflict. Satan is a trained strategist, and an obstinate fighter. He refuses to acknowledge defeat until he must. It is the fight of his life.
The Christian life is a conflict and a warfare, and the quicker we find it out the better.
Better a brief warfare and eternal rest, than false peace and everlasting torment.
It is well for us that as sin lives, and the flesh lives, and the devil lives, so Jesus lives; and it is also well that whatever might these may have to ruin us, Jesus has still greater power to save us.
Jesus is the victor. Satan knows it, and fears Him.
Sin can no more stand against the presence of the Holy Ghost than darkness can resist the gentle, all-pervasive beams of morning light.
The Christian’s life is a continual wrestling with sin and Satan from thy spiritual birth to thy natural death.
His wind shaketh no corn.
Christ hath left in the custody of the Church our mother the sword of the Spirit, and the shoes of a Christian conversation, the same which he once wore himself, and they must fit our feet, yea, and we must take up the weight of many heavy crosses, before we can come at them.
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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