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“The heart must have in it the grace of prayer to sing the praise of God. Spiritual singing is not to be done by musical taste or talent, but by the grace of God in the heart. Nothing helps praise so mightily as a gracious revival of true religion in the church. The conscious presence of God inspires song…God’s presence begets singing and thanksgiving, while the absence of God from our congregations is the death of song, or, which amounts to the same, makes the singing lifeless, cold and formal. His conscious presence in our churches would bring back the days of praise and would restore the full chorus of song.”
—E.M. Bounds
May it be so :)
My weakness needs His might.
John Piper, God is the Gospel (via cafespirit)
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E.M. Bounds
E.M. Bounds
“Happy are they who have no righteousness of their own to plead and no goodness of their own which to boast. Humility flourishes in the soil of a true and deep sense of our sinfulness and our nothingness. Nowhere does humility grow so rankly and so rapidly and shine so brilliantly, as when it feels all guilty, confesses all sin, and trusts all grace. ‘I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.’ That is praying ground, the ground of humility, low down, far away seemingly, but in reality brought nigh by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. God dwells in the lowly places. He makes such lowly places really the high places to the praying soul.”
“Humility is just feeling little because we are little. Humility is realizing our unworthiness because we are unworthy, the feeling and declaring ourselves sinners because we are sinners. Kneeling well becomes us as the attitude of prayer, because it betokens humility.”
-E.M. Bounds
Psalm 119:37
Charles Spurgeon (via cafespirit)
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Todd Friel (via cafespirit)
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Lamentations 3:39
“What is man or any mortal to complain about anything in light of his sins?”
In Lamentations 3:39, the Bible commands us never to complain about anything because we have no right to “in light of our sins”. As sinners, we have to see that we don’t deserve anything – all the good…
Still.
“The lips of truth cannot promise more than the hands of love will surely give.”
-Spurgeon
Grace Noll Crowell
L. B. Cowman