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

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
Kent Hughes

Our wills must be broken to His will. To be broken is the beginning of revival. It is painful, it is humiliating, it is the only way. It is being ‘Not I, but Christ,’ and a ‘C’ is a bent ‘I.’ The Lord Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the proud self within us is broken. This simply means that the hard unyielding self, which justifies itself, wants its own way, stands up for its rights, and seeks its own glory, at last bows its head to God's will, admits it’s wrong, gives up its own way to Jesus, surrenders its rights and discards its own glory – that the Lord Jesus might have all and be all. In other words, it is dying to self and self-attitudes.
Roy Hession

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    LOVE of God

    LOVE of God, The

    1. Is a part of his character # 2Co 13:11 1Jo 4:8
    2. Christ, the especial object of # Joh 15:9 17:26
    3. Christ abides in # Joh 15:10
    4. DESCRIBED AS 4a) Sovereign

      # De 7:8 10:15

    4b) Great # Eph 2:4 4c) Abiding # Zep 3:17 4d) Unfailing # Isa 49:15,16 4e) Unalienable # Ro 8:39 4f) Constraining # Ho 11:4 4g) Everlasting # Jer 31:3 5) Irrespective of merit # De 7:7 Job 7:17 6) MANIFESTED TOWARDS 6a) Perishing sinners # Joh 3:16 Tit 3:4 6b) His saints # Joh 16:27 17:23 2Th 2:16 1Jo 4:16 6c) The destitute # De 10:18 6d) The cheerful giver # 2Co 9:7 7) EXHIBITED IN 7a) The giving of Christ # Joh 3:16 7b) The sending of Christ # 1Jo 4:9 7c) Christ’s dying for us while sinners # Ro 5:8 1Jo 4:10 7d) Election # Mal 1:2,3 Ro 9:11-13 7e) Adoption # 1Jo 3:1 7f) Redemption # Isa 43:3,4 63:9 7g) Freeness of salvation # Tit 3:4-7 7h) Forgiving sin # Isa 38:17 7i) Quickening of souls # Eph 2:4,5 7j) Drawing us to himself # Ho 11:4 7k) Temporal blessings # De 7:13 7l) Chastisements # Heb 12:6 7m) Defeating evil counsels # De 23:5 8) Shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit # Ro 5:5 9) Saints know and believe # 1Jo 4:16 10) Saints should abide in # Jude 1:21 11) PERFECTED IN SAINTS 11a) By obedience # 1Jo 2:5 11b) By brotherly love # 1Jo 4:12 12) The source of our love to him # 1Jo 4:19 13) To be sought in prayer # 2Co 13:14

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