"If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower."
The hardest thing is to overcome is yourself because we are our own worst enemy.
Galatians 6:8
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Don’t take much thought for your life in this world.
If men hate you, it doesn’t matter much.
If you have little, it doesn’t matter much.
John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
The devil is to work to get you to misrepresent God.
The twist in thinking is very subtle because the spirit of this world does not want you to detect his presence in your thoughts.
"Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"The cross is going to judge everything in your life-- your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross examined!"
Leonard Ravenhill
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.... moreOh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom
and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.