Men may reform, but they cannot regenerate themselves. Men may give up their crimes and their vices, but they cannot, by their own strength, give up their sins. Can the Ethiopian change his skin? No. Can the leopard eliminate his spots? Regeneration is the great change which God works in the soul when He brings it into life, when He raises it from the death of sin to the life of righteousness. It is the change wrought when the love of the world is changed into the love of God; when pride is dethroned and humility enthroned; when passion is changed into meekness; when hatred, envy, and malice are changed into a sincere and tender love for all mankind. It is the change whereby the earthly, sensual, devilish mind is turned into the mind that was in Christ. The new birth is not the old nature altered, reformed, or reinvigorated, but a being born from above (Robert Lee).
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VOWS VOWS: Committments, Life-Policies, Quality Decisions: (Ps 188:27) [Please read, & meditate on, & I was created by God, and will maybe memorize, the refs.] be judged by Him. He…

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JEDWARDS _"Resolved, Never hence-forward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's."_ (from the "Resolutions" of Jonathan Edwards, begun in…

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TORREY2 [HOW TO PRAY by R.A.Torrey] CHAPTER II PRAYING UNTO GOD We have seen something of the tremendous importance and the resistless power of prayer, and now we come directly…

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TORREY3 [HOW TO PRAY by R.A.Torrey] CHAPTER III OBEYING AND PRAYING One of the most significant verses in the Bible on prayer is 1_John 3:22. John says, "And whatsoever we…

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TORREY4 [HOW TO PRAY, by R.A.Torrey] CHAPTER IV PRAYING IN THE NAME OF CHRIST AND ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD It was a wonderful word about prayer that Jesus…

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TORREY5 [HOW TO PRAY by R.A.Torrey] CHAPTER V PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT Over and over again in what has already been said, we have seen our dependence upon the Holy…

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TORREY6 [HOW TO PRAY by R.A.Torrey] CHAPTER VI ALWAYS PRAYING AND NOT FAINTING In two parables in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus teaches with great emphasis the lesson that men…

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TORREY7 [HOW TO PRAY by R.A.Torrey] CHAPTER VII ABIDING IN CHRIST "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it…

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TORREY8 [HOW TO PRAY, by R. A. Torrey] CHAPTER VIII PRAYING WITH THANKSGIVING There are two words often overlooked in the lesson about prayer which Paul gives us in Phil.…

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TORREY9 [HOW TO PRAY, by R. A. Torrey] CHAPTER IX HINDRANCES TO PRAYER We have gone very carefully into the positive conditions of prevailing prayer; but there are some things…

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