• “They only did what God permitted them to do, which enabled me always to keep God in sight… When we suffer, we should always remember that God inflicts the blow. Wicked men, it is true, are not infrequently His instruments; and the fact does not diminish, but simply develops their wickedness. But when we are so mentally disposed that we love the strokes we suffer, regarding them as coming from God, and as expressions of what He sees best for us, we are then in the proper state to look forgivingly and kindly upon the subordinate instrument which He permits to smite us.” – Madame Guyon
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Joy and Strength 05/13

Published May 13, 2019 | By womenofchristianity

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Ps. cxix. III.

Girt with the love of God on every side,
Breathing that love as heaven’s own healing air,
I work or wait, still following my Guide,
Braving each foe, escaping every snare.
HORATIUS BONAR.

THE Lord preserve us near unto Himself, out of that which separates from Him and weakens; and nothing shall be able to interrupt our joy in the Lord, nor our delight and pleasure in His will.
Isaac Penington.

It is easy to make great sacrifices when God does not ask them, but to give up our own will in each detail of life is something far harder. And this is what He does ask. To hold ourselves ever in readiness for His bidding — to count no token of it too slight — such is His call to each. Thus only shall we be ready for further service if He sees fit to lead us on to it.
H. Bowman.

To live in the Spirit is the right condition of man, his normal condition; and to live in the Spirit is to live with God — hearing Him, and knowing Him, and loving Him, and delighting to do His will.
Thomas Erskine.

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[The Humbled and Exalted Christ] Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. — Philippians 2:5-8 (NKJV)

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