Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
J. C. RYLENever does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
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Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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