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Tempted?
`Jesus
will never abandon the soul for whom He has died. The soul may leave
Him, and be overwhelmed with temptation; but Jesus can never turn
from one for whom He has paid the ransom of His own life. Could our
spiritual vision be quickened, we should see souls bowed under
oppression and burdened with grief, pressed as a cart beneath
sheaves, and ready to die in discouragement. We should see angels
flying swiftly to aid these tempted ones, who are standing as on the
brink of a precipice. The angels from heaven force back the hosts of
evil that encompass these souls, and guide them to plant their feet
on the sure foundation. The battles waging between the two armies
are as real as those fought by the armies of this world, and on the
issue of the spiritual conflict eternal destinies depend.’ (ML94)
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` The believer must claim the promise and meet the foe
in the name of the Lord, and he will not know anything like failure.’
(2MCP473) |
`When
temptations and trials rush in upon us, let us go to God and agonize
with Him in prayer. He will not turn us away empty, but will give us
grace and strength to overcome, and to break the power of the enemy.’
(EW46)
`Our
heavenly Father measures and weighs every trial before He permits it
to come upon the believer. He considers the circumstances and the
strength of the one who is to stand under the proving and test of
God, and He never permits the temptations to be greater than the
capacity of resistance. If the soul is overborne, the person
overpowered, this can never be charged to God, as failing to give
strength in grace, but the one tempted was not vigilant and
prayerful and did not appropriate by faith the provisions God had
abundantly in store for him. Jesus never failed a believer in his
hour of combat. The believer must claim the promise and meet the foe
in the name of the Lord, and he will not know anything like failure.’
(2MCP473)
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