The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.
~ R.a. Torrey
Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love.
If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith.
If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on
What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.
There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.
It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.
