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

Much sickness – physical, mental, and emotional – surely must come from disobedience. When the soul is confronted with an alternative of right or wrong and chooses to blur the distinction, making excuses for its bewilderment and frustration, it is exposed to infection. Evil is given the opportunity to invade the mind, the spirit, and the body and the sick person goes off to an expert who will diagnose his trouble. Sometimes the patient knows well what his trouble is and for this very reason has not consulted the Lord, fearing what He will say: Confess. Turn around. Quit that indulgence. Do not pity yourself. Forgive that person. Pay back what you owe. Apologize. Tell the truth. Deny yourself. Consider the other’s well-being. Lay down your life.
Elisabeth Elliot

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water…. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably, earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.
C.S. Lewis

Q73 How is the Word to be read

This entry is part 73 of 82 in the series Frequently Asked Questions for new Christians

Q73 How is the Word to be read 73 Q How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation? A That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, # Pr 8:34 preparation, # 1Pe 2:1,2 and prayer, # Ps 119:18 receive it with faith, # Heb 4:2 and love, # 2Th 2:10 lay it up into our hearts, # Ps 119:11 and practise it in our lives. # Jas 1:25

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