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The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.
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God made only one you and He threw the mold away.
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It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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Martin Luther spent two hours a day in prayer. John Wesley spent two hours a day in prayer. According to a recent poll taken on both sides of the Atlantic, the average church leader, pastor, priest, evangelist, teacher today spends four minutes a day in prayer and you wonder why the church is powerless.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. —A. W. TOZER (1897–1963)
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.1 —MAHATMA GANDHI (1869–1948)
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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When the Word and Spirit come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the nation, and indeed the world, has ever seen.1 —SMITH WIGGLESWORTH (1859–1947)
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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grief. We do and say strange things—sometimes bizarre things—when we are swallowed up in grief. No one should be hard on us when we say thoughtless and selfish things when we are in grief. Both Mary and Martha accused Jesus of being the cause of their brother’s death by not responding immediately to their request: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died” (John 11:21, 32). Jesus did not rebuke either of them. Instead, He wept with them (see John 11:35). So with all of us. He knows our frame; He remembers we are dust.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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As C. S. Lewis put it, “Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we don’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining; they just shine. —D. L. MOODY (1837–1899)
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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Time with God will open up His ways. Reading books won't do it. Reading theology won't do it. Studying the creation won't do it. Going to church won't do it. Listening to religious music won't do it. Listening to great preaching won't do it. Even worshiping through hymns and songs won't do it.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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The Bible was not given to replace the supernatural or miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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nine out of ten people I have had to forgive sincerely do not feel they have done anything wrong. It is up to me to forgive them from my heart – and then keep quiet about it.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
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Repentance (Greek, metanoia) means "change of mind." So as we get to know God, we get to know ourselves.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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we have the Word without the Spirit, we tend to “dry up”; if we have the Spirit without the Word, we tend to “blow up”; if we have both Spirit and Word, we tend to “grow up” and “fire up.” But when each is properly joined in common union, there is explosive power to be had.
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R.T. Kendall (Word Spirit Power: What Happens When You Seek All God Has to Offer)
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Elijah wanted the crisis to be dealt with, and the boy was raised from the dead. Answered prayer is better—and more important—than answered questions: If you demand answers to your questions before you affirm the blood of Christ, you will lose your soul.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, “Your time is up.” We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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Holy Spirit, please overrule in my life that I will never quench the fire that You have caused to burn. Let me never pour water on wood You may want to ignite. I pray on bended knee that You will come unquenched into my heart and stay there without any hindrance from me. In Jesus’s name, amen.
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R.T. Kendall (40 Days With the Holy Spirit: A Journey to Experience His Presence in a Fresh New Way)
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CAPT. J. W. SIMMONS, master of the steamship Pensacola, had just as little regard for weather as the Louisiana’s Captain Halsey. He was a veteran of eight hundred trips across the Gulf and commanded a staunch and sturdy ship, a 1,069-ton steel-hulled screw-driven steam freighter built twelve years earlier in West Hartlepool, England, and now owned by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Friday morning the ship was docked at the north end of 34th Street, in the company of scores of other ships, including the big Mallory liner Alamo, at 2,237 tons, and the usual large complement of British ships, which on Friday included the Comino, Hilarius, Kendal Castle, Mexican, Norna, Red Cross, Taunton, and the stately Roma in from Boston with its Captain Storms. As the Pensacola’s twenty-one-man crew readied the ship for its voyage to the city of Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf Coast, two men came aboard as Captain Simmons’s personal guests: a harbor pilot named R. T. Carroll and Galveston’s Pilot Commissioner J. M. O. Menard, from one of the city’s oldest families. At
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Erik Larson (Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History)
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Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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Forgiveness is worthless to us emotionally if we can’t forgive ourselves.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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The next time Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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John Newton looked across the kitchen table and said to William Cowper, “I’m not what I ought to be. I’m not what I want to be. I’m not what I hope to be. But thank God I’m not what I used to be.
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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I cannot imagine a greater motivation to pray than that God enjoys having me in His presence. He enjoys my company. He delights in listening to me! He doesn't get bored with my repeated requests. He doesn't moralize me if I get it wrong in what I ask for. He doesn't laugh at me if I put out silly, even impertinent, requests. He never makes me feel stupid. There is no rejection, only total acceptance.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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The Kingdom cannot be learned like other subjects, such as science, geography or history. The Kingdom is learned only through revelation by the Spirit. It cannot be explained, contained or controlled—thus it is unexplainable, uncontainable and uncontrollable. It is not taught as much as it is caught—and only through the Spirit can it be caught. It cannot be embraced, explained, applied, pursued or entered without the Spirit of God.
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R.T. Kendall (Word Spirit Power: What Happens When You Seek All God Has to Offer)
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When speaking to or about another person, ask yourself if what you are about to say will meet their need: Necessary – Is it necessary to say this? Encourage – Will this encourage? Will it make them feel better? Edify – Will it edify? Will it build them up and make them stronger as a result of what you would say? Dignify – Will it dignify that person? That’s the way Jesus treated other people; he gave them a sense of dignity. Criticism
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
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Fearlessness is when there is simply no fear. I wish I felt this way every day. But I have known this—at times. There is nothing like it. It is when the Dove comes down and the whole landscape changes, like a sunrise that reveals what was hidden in the night. Fearlessness. As the hymn “Like a River Glorious” puts it in verse two: Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.2 —FRANCES R. HAVERGAL
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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THERE HAS BEEN A SILENT DIVORCE IN THE CHURCH, SPEAKING generally, between the Word and the Spirit. When there is a divorce, sometimes the children stay with the mother, sometimes with the father. In this divorce you have those on the Word side and those on the Spirit side. What is the difference? Those on the Word side stress earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the saints, expository preaching, sound theology, rediscovering the doctrines of the Reformation—justification by faith, sovereignty of God. Until we get back to the Word, the honor of God’s name will not be restored. What is wrong with this emphasis? Nothing. It is exactly right, in my opinion. Those on the Spirit side stress getting back to the Book of Acts, signs, wonders, and miracles, gifts of the Holy Spirit—with places being shaken at prayer meetings, get in Peter’s shadow and you are healed, lie to the Holy Spirit and you are struck dead. Until we recover the power of the Spirit, the honor of God’s name will not be restored. What is wrong with this emphasis? Nothing. It is exactly right, in my opinion. The problem is, neither will learn from the other. But if these two would come together, the simultaneous combination would mean spontaneous combustion. And if Smith Wigglesworth’s prophecy got it right, the world will be turned upside down again.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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Elijah was vindicated then and there as being a true man of God. Not everybody gets vindication that soon. For some it takes years. For some, vindication takes place after he or she has gone to heaven. Jesus never was universally vindicated—on earth, that is. His vindication was “by the Spirit” (1 Timothy 3:16). One day He will be openly vindicated—when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord (see Philippians 2:11). Every person will then say, “Now I know.” But until that final day, Jesus will remain the most misunderstood and “unvindicated” person who ever lived.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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R.T. Kendall states in his recent book on the Holy Spirit, I don’t mean to be unfair, but I have long suspected that, were it not for the gift of tongues, many evangelicals (many of whom are not cessationists) would have no objection to the gifts of the Spirit. The stigma (offense) is not with regard to wisdom; who doesn’t want and need wisdom? It is not with regard to having words of knowledge, the gift of faith, prophecy, discerning of spirits, the miraculous, or healing. The offense is invariably speaking in tongues. Why? As my friend Charles Carrin has put it, tongues is the only gift of the Spirit that challenges our pride. There is no stigma attached to any of the other gifts. Only tongues.1
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Steve Bremner (9 Lies People Believe about Speaking in Tongues: Crushing Myths and Fallacies about the Wonderful Gift God Gives Freely)
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Elijah’s question was not answered, but his prayer was. Which would you prefer, an answer to your question or an answer to your prayer? I am sure that the widow did not particularly want her question answered; she wanted her son back, and that is what she got. Had Elijah waited for his question to be answered he would have never prayed. I have had countless people say to me, “When God explains to me why He allows suffering I will believe in Him.” The result in that case will be that you will never know the answer to that question here on earth. So are you going to lose your soul and be eternally lost? Or will you pray the prayer, “God be merciful to me a sinner,” without your questions being answered?
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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Not keeping a record of wrongs is also a refusal to keep a record of the things you have done right. It is just as dishonoring to God’s grace to keep a record of your rights as it is to keep a record of others’ wrongs. Why? Because it is a form of self-exaltation. You are implicitly saying, “I told you so,” in order to make someone else look bad. It takes spiritual maturity to refrain from saying, “I told you so.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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synagogue and read from Isaiah 61:1–2, which He said meant Himself, Jesus then referred to this very episode in the life of Elijah: “I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.” Luke 4:25–26 Why did Jesus speak those words at that particular time? It was an unsubtle hint that His ministry would be shared with and welcomed by Gentiles.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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ever ask you. Life at its longest is still short. We may say, “I need more time.” The truth is, God gives all of us enough time. We may not be prepared for that last day on earth, but we need to get prepared. All of life is moving toward that “Omega Point” when we stand before God at the Judgment Seat of Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:10). So I ask again: Do you know for certain that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? Now for another question: Suppose you were to stand before God (and you will) and He were to ask you (and He might), “Why should I let you into My heaven?” What would you say? Only one answer will do. I will tell you my answer—and I pray it is yours: Jesus died on the cross for my sins. When it comes time to die and you have to make the greatest change of all, be sure that this is your heart-of-hearts answer.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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Never think of the Holy Spirit as an “it,” an “attitude,” or an “influence.” He is a person and has very definite ways. Call them peculiar, eccentric, or unique if you like; He has His ways. You may or may not like His ways. But get over it! He is the only Holy Spirit you have! He won’t adjust to you; you must adjust to Him.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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We must let God be Himself in us. This means that we must let Him be Himself in others too. We ought not to judge the style of another person’s worship.
But worship that is elitist or is reduced to the level of popular entertainment, worship that is emotional or aesthetic is worship in name only. It has the external form without the reality. What we long for is living worship. But how does this come about?
Our churches should not be places where the unregenerate come on Sundays because they “like the worship.” Our churches ought to be places where the unregenerate feel uncomfortable because it is the Spirit who is important and who comes first. Our controlling principle must be obedience to the Spirit—no matter where He leads us.
Psalm 37:4 is true for all of us, whomever we are or whatever we want. But when we delight ourselves in the Lord, some of our desires may wither away and be replaced by new ambitions. So it will not do to envisage a definite goal concerning the form our worship must take. We must first of all be sure that we are delighting ourselves in the Lord and then see what God does.
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How can I know God wants to get into my life like that? When I have come to the end of my own strength, I may be sure that God’s time is at hand.
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R.T. Kendall (God Meant it for Good)
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Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.
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R.T. Kendall (You Might Be a Pharisee If...: Twenty-Five Things Christians Do But Jesus Would Rebuke)
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)
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R.T. Kendall (For an Audience of One: Seek the Praise That Comes from God Alone)
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She stopped to think. “Twice. It happened so quick. Rob was just trying to warn Dean, but he accidentally hit him.” “What did you do?” “Well, Dean fell down and started bleeding all over the stairs. I started freaking out. Rob was freaking out. We didn’t know what to do.” She clammed up all
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J.R. Kendall (Deadly Escape)
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Dear Holy Spirit, there are so many things in Your Word I don’t understand. Give me grace not to question but to accept that Your ways and Your thoughts are higher than my ways. Grant me too the power to bless others through my own hands, unworthy though I am. In Jesus’s name, amen.
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R.T. Kendall (40 Days With the Holy Spirit: A Journey to Experience His Presence in a Fresh New Way)
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If there is anything that will make us blush in heaven, it will be the realization of how much we were loved on this earth-but didn't appreciate it.
And if we knew how much God welcomes us when we turn to Him, we would almost certainly pray more than we do.
God likes our company.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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Instead of being resentful that God is jealous,
we should be thankful that He is like that. It shows He cares!
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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your voice. You will not panic if you think you are losing an argument or lacking the exact words. The greatest freedom is having nothing to prove. This freedom—fearlessness—can only be produced by the Holy Spirit. When this fearlessness has set in, you know it is the Holy Spirit and not you.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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If our marriages are to survive the long haul, we certainly must have a love that keeps no record of wrongs.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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This is why Paul said that we must not only confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord but also believe in the "heart" that Jesus was raised from the dead (Rom. 10:9-10).
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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Blessed Holy Spirit, I am so comforted by the knowledge that You do what the Father tells You to say and do—just as Jesus did. I love knowing that when I am led by the Holy Spirit, I am simultaneously being led by the Father. I only pray, let me miss nothing You would say to me. In Jesus’s name, amen.
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R.T. Kendall (40 Days With the Holy Spirit: A Journey to Experience His Presence in a Fresh New Way)
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I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. MAHATMA GANDHI (1869–1948)
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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But Mr. Spurgeon, what if we convert one of the nonelect?” Spurgeon patted him on the back and replied, “God will forgive you for that.” I have never regretted asking a person to close with Christ.
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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If there is anything that will make us blush in heaven, it will be the realization of how much we were loved on this earth-but didn't appreciate it.
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R.T. Kendall (Did You Think To Pray: How to Listen and Talk to God Every Day About Everything)
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Paul was not ashamed of this gospel. Are you? Surely not! But if you have not embraced it, I urge you to pray this prayer now—wherever you are: Lord Jesus Christ, I need You. I want You. I am sorry for my sins. Wash my sins away by Your blood. I know I cannot save myself. I transfer my trust in my good works to what You did for me on the cross. I welcome Your Holy Spirit into my heart. As best as I know how, I give You my life. Amen. If you prayed that prayer, share it! Tell at least one other person today. From this day forward pray daily. Read your Bible daily.
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. MARTIN LUTHER (1483–1546)
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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Glorious Holy Spirit, when I consider that You had a role in Creation, it means You also had a role in making me! And now You dwell in me! Thank You for this truth. Do make me ever-increasingly grateful to You for being my Creator. In Jesus’s name, amen.
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R.T. Kendall (40 Days With the Holy Spirit: A Journey to Experience His Presence in a Fresh New Way)
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Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones frequently said, “The Bible was not given to replace the miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.
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R.T. Kendall (Pigeon Religion: Holy Spirit, Is That You?: Discerning Spiritual Manipulation)
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But how can I know that there is no bitterness left? I would reply: (1) when there is no desire to get even or punish, (2) when I do or say nothing that would hurt their reputation or future, and (3) when I truly wish them well in all they seek to do. 9
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
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face up to the seriousness – possibly a high-handed wickedness – of what they did; and still to forgive. This
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
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the greater the sin you forgive them of, the greater the measure of the Spirit that will come to you.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
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A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence’ (Prov. 19:11).
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grace is getting what we don’t deserve (favour) and mercy is not getting what we do deserve (justice).
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
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if you are true to the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will have to do things that humble you, make you appear as a wimp, and do things that nobody will admire.
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R.T. Kendall (The Power of Humility: Living like Jesus)
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I want to affirm at the outset that every moment you spend in this book will be worth the time. You will be led and fed along a pathway of enriching truth by a friend of mine, Dr. R. T. Kendall, a known and beloved pastor-author of considerable scholarship. Still, I assure you, as well studied as RT is, his depth in “the Word and the doctrine” will only serve to assist your insight, never to intimidate. At heart he is a consummate pastor—a word and a lifestyle properly defined in the description of the Lord in Psalm 23 and in the person and nature of Jesus Christ, “that great Shepherd of the sheep” (Heb. 13:20). Dr. Kendall writes with the heart of a man tested and proven as a faithful pastor, having served congregations in both Britain and America. And of even greater importance, he is also a faithful and loving servant of abiding trustworthiness and fidelity to both his bride, Louise, and to the bride of Christ, the church.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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Do not be satisfied with God’s calling or his gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ himself.1 —LIU ZHENYING (KNOWN AS BROTHER YUN)
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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When you totally forgive your enemy, you have crossed over into the supernatural realm. Perhaps you are like me and wish
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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I’ve been in situations where forgiveness has been withheld from me. And I’ve come to understand it’s their choice. But just because they choose to live in a prison of unforgiveness doesn’t mean I have to sit in there with them. Another perspective comes from R.T. Kendall in his book, Total Forgiveness, “Forgiving yourself may bring about the breakthrough you have been looking for. It could set you free in ways you have never experienced before.” The things we’ve been through, even if they are shameful or destructive, could very well be things God wants to use in our lives to help others. And if we’re standing in the way of our forgiveness, healing, and freedom, how can God do His work in our lives?
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Tracie Stier-Johnson (31 Days of Forgiveness {through the eyes of grace})
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Don't fear His silence. Use it to examine your heart and motives. Listen expectantly for the silence to be broken by the glory of His manifested presence once again in your life.
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R.T. Kendall (Sensitivity Of The Spirit: Learning to Stay in the Flow of God's Direction)
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En su libro de 1979 Your Body Doesn’t Lie,3 el doctor Diamond resume del siguiente modo el procedimiento adaptado por él a partir de la descripción clásica de H. O. Kendall en Muscles: Testing and Function*. 1
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David R. Hawkins (El Poder frente a la fuerza: Los determinantes ocultos del comportamiento humano)
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THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. ARE YOU CHARISMATIC? He is bigger than your signs and wonders events. Are you Reformed? He will not be limited by your theology. The Lord Jesus said of the Holy Spirit, “He blows where he will.
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R.T. Kendall (Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives)
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The worse thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.
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Si esperas grandes cosas de Dios, intenta grandes cosas con Dios”.1
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God designs an enemy to keep us on our toes, but also on our knees.
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R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain - God Wants You to Lay it All Aside)
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What makes a bit of ground holy? It is when and where God shows up. He can do this anywhere at any time. This means that the most insignificant place can be declared holy when God moves in. It can come when you least expect it.
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R.T. Kendall (We've Never Been This Way Before: Trusting God in Unprecedented Times)
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There was no water. Food by tons would have no value. You need water to survive. If the ravens brought Elijah filet steaks, fresh vegetables and the best-tasting bread it would have meant nothing.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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When sudden change catapults you into something new, remember this: God has a better idea for how you should spend this time of your life. You may stubbornly say, “I am going to stay right here where this brook was, no matter what.” But if the brook has dried up, like it or not, you have to move on. It is
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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God’s way of getting your attention.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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When the brook dries up, we know it is time to move. God has something better in mind. Count on it. He will never leave you nor forsake you (seen Hebrews 13:5). No good thing will He withhold from you when it is God’s will
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you want most of all (see Psalm 84:11). Paul admitted that he had to “learn” the secret of contentment in every situation. So with all of us. That learning process can sometimes be painful, but it is worth all we have to go through to get that knowledge of God’s new plan.
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When the brook dries up because there is no rain, but you say, “Praise the Lord,” you bring great honor to God. Trust Him to show you the next step forward. He will. He is never too early, never too late, but always just on time. When God closes a door, He opens a window. Learn to accept the closed door and be prepared for the surprising window that will open. It opened for Elijah and it will open for you.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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Faith Is Sometimes Spelled R-I-S-K Then the word of the LORD came to him: “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.” So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.” “As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.” 1 Kings 17:8–12
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Having been faced with a dried-up brook—a closed door if there ever was one—Elijah needed a window. He got it: The Lord told him to go to Zarephath of Sidon where a widow would look after him. The ravens and the brook, then, were to be succeeded by a Gentile widow about a hundred miles away. Zarephath was outside Israel in Gentile territory. It turns out that God had been at work behind the scenes: “I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.
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We will learn in this chapter of 1 Kings 17 the amazing and surprising ways God supplies our needs. But it also demonstrates God’s love for all peoples, not only Israel.
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Early in the ministry of our Lord, immediately after He stood in the
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Don’t be afraid. The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.” We do not know why this Gentile widow should have believed this, but she did. “She went away and did as Elijah had told her.” This part of the Elijah story is important because it not only continues to demonstrate patience in disappointment but also shows how faith is sometimes spelled R-I-S-K. Risk means “to accept or expose yourself to possible harm or loss.” So the question becomes, Who took the greater risk, Elijah or the widow? Elijah risked being extremely impertinent and putting her off entirely. The widow risked depleting her last bit of food. Going Outside Your Comfort Zone Behind this part of the story is a principle of faith: To experience the extraordinary you must go outside your comfort zone. Do you want to see God work in a powerful way—as in the
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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days of the earliest Church? I ask you: Do you want things to go on as usual, or do you want to see God do something unusual? If you want to see the extraordinary, I have to tell you that it means going outside your comfort zone. I wish it were not that way, but it is! Every person God used in the Old Testament and the New Testament and in Church history over the last two thousand years has had to go outside his or her comfort zone. That is partly why faith is sometimes spelled R-I-S-K. I would say this to you: If you get a clear invitation to move outside your comfort zone because of the possibility you might see God do the unusual, take it with both hands!
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And yet this part of the story shows that God supplies our need in a way that is both extraordinary but also ordinary. The extraordinary: The flour and oil were never used up. The ordinary: There was just enough for each day. It was never a case of a hundred barrels of flour and oil being wasted before their eyes. The amount was small and always
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there. Enough is enough. You do not need flour and oil for tomorrow; only for today. You can live only one day at a time. You can take only one bite at a time. What more could you cope with anyway? My dad’s favorite verse was, “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matthew 6:33). The next verse goes on to say, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Dr. A. W. Pink observed that this command—to make the cake for Elijah first and then for her and her son—was one of the hardest commandments ever given. And, yet, for her to grant it was equally hard. It meant both of them going outside their comfort zones. Elijah wanted to confirm beyond all doubt that she was truly the widow God had chosen to supply his needs. He was gentle with her: “Don’t be afraid,” he said. In the process, then, Elijah put obstacles in her way in order to be sure. He might have
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said, “Make a cake for yourself and your son, and then make some for me.” That would have been considered more sensible and unselfish. But, no, she was required to make this for him first—and then she and her son could have some. Added to his request was Elijah’s odd claim that this came from the “God of Israel” (1 Kings 17:14). This made the challenge even harder for this Gentile widow. Have you any idea how much the ancient Gentiles in that part of the world hated Israel? They did then and they do now. Elijah, thus, added to the obstacle he had put in her way. Granted, the widow had nothing to lose. It was the best offer she had. So, too, with receiving the Gospel message. You are going to die anyway. This is decreed for us all, for it is appointed unto all men and women “to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). It is the best offer you are going to get in this world.
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may seem unreasonable—that the blood of
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Jesus could wash away your sins—but it is the only hope you have. Accept this offer now. Confess your sins to God. Thank Him for sending His Son. Transfer the trust you have in your good works to what Jesus did for you on the cross. Doing this will result in a pardon of all your sins. When the widow did what Elijah said to do, all he promised came to pass. It will with you, too, when you affirm this Gospel.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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This part of the story shows something of the suffering of a true prophet. It is true that the greater the suffering the greater the anointing, but it is also true that the greater the anointing, the greater the suffering. Never forget this. Anointing carries suffering with it. It was true of Abraham. It was true of Moses. Not only did Elijah experience his own sense of being let down by God when the brook dried up, but now he has an unanticipated crisis on his hands: a distraught widow who has suddenly
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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lost her only son—and Elijah to blame.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)
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There is one person who will never let you down, will never fail you. Jesus Christ. He is perfect. Sinless. Faultless. He loves you more than you love yourself. He is always there. Always watching you. Never turning an eye from you. He loves you as though there were no other person to love. He will never, never, never fail you. Ever. Count on it. My whole life and ministry are based upon this premise: the absolute, unwavering perfection of Jesus.
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R.T. Kendall (These Are the Days of Elijah: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things)