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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Even as God is at work shaping desire and growing a man in the areas of knowledge and ability, the first and most visible mark of the called man is godly character. While great gifts and broad knowledge are certainly a blessing in public ministry, no amount of academic or ministerial brilliance matters if the man is not first known to be conspicuously holy.
David Hegg

We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that He is benign, that He will acquiesce as we toy with His reality and co-opt Him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.
David Wells

    • PRAYER OF THE CONTRITE SINNER

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    HAVE mercy Thou, most gracious God,
    And my remittance sign;
    The more Thy mercy shall accord,
    The greater glory Thine.

    Thou surely hast not said in vain:
    “More joy in heaven is made
    For the lost sheep that’s found again,
    Than those which never strayed.”

    Helped by Thy grace, no more I’ll stray,
    No more resist Thy voice;
    Where Thou, good Shepherd, lead’st the way.
    That way shall be my choice.

    Too long, alas! my wandering feet
    The crooked paths have trod;
    Henceforth I’ll follow, as is meet,
    The sure unerring road.

    If casual falls retard my pace,
    With speed again I’ll rise,
    With speed I’ll reassume my race,
    And run and gain the prize.

    All praise, Ο Lord, to Thee alone.
    Below, as ’tis above:
    And may Thy joys, Eternal One,
    Both draw and crown my love!

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