Prayer – sheeplywolves

Prayer – Drawing Near to God – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

22 Mar 2025 Michael A

Citizens of Heaven – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

20 Mar 2025 Michael A

“There is only one protection against the temptations of Satan. It is the breastplate of righteousness. You’ll never get righteousness without godliness. You can multiply your police force, you can build better prisons, you can staff them with psychiatrists, you can try and uplift people and educate them. It doesn’t touch your problem.” ―Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones …History shows that moral and righteous periods follow religious awakenings while unrighteous periods follow a decline in Christianity. …Deliverance from condemnation protects us from temptation by removing despair and hopelessness.

C H Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Thoughts for March 16

16 Mar 2025 Michael A

Spurgeon’s words in today’s devotional are very encouraging, as usual. But not all his devotionals are equally inspiring, encouraging…, this one is among the best I have read. Furthermore, it overlaps with the last post by MLJ, that is why I’m posting it too.

John MacArthur Now On Dialysis – BTWN News

14 Mar 2025 Michael A

This post contains a brief letter written by John MacArthur, which you may read for yourself, and the channel host’s commentary related to that letter and related matters. The video is worth hearing if you have 16 minutes to listen, as you will get a much better appreciation for what Pastor MacArthur is going through and how he continually dedicates his life to God for kingdom work. (I did not get that from merely reading the letter). Additionally, I am in my early 70’s, and I got from listening that MacArthur is providing a great model for the elderly among us, in terms of contemplating our own demise… it is so easy to be selfish, trying to grab the gusto before death occurs…. I survived prostate cancer… but realize death is hastening towards me and want to deal with it rightly.

Affirmations / Autosuggestions and the Christian Life

10 Mar 2025 Michael A

This post contains a 10-minute video on autosuggestion, its message is something like the word-faith gospel. I typed out a transcript of the video and critiqued it a paragraph or few at a time. The critiques are biblical. I do not think the video is within the Christian biblical worldview and do not recommend just hearing that and leaving, without reading the critique.

Morning and Evening February 19 by C H Spurgeon

20 Feb 2025 Michael A

This post contains Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening thoughts devotionals for Feb. 19: The morning verse is from Ezekiel, I think it is the most explicit verse in the Bible about God requiring His children to pray if their needs will be met by Him…. The evening thoughts are about Andrew first telling Peter when he had found the Messiah; Spurgeon applied that to witnessing the gospel to those nearest first….

Prayer; Drawing Near to God – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

18 Dec 2024 Michael A

The preacher begins by addressing the context of the epistle to the Hebrews, written to Jewish Christians who were becoming discouraged in their faith. He emphasizes the importance of prayer in the Christian life and highlights the difficulties that can arise when attempting to pray. …In conclusion, Dr. Lloyd-Jones exhorts his listeners to rely solely on Jesus Christ and His finished work for access to God in prayer, rather than on human efforts, rituals, or earthly intermediaries. [In the last third of the message, he compared the RCC to the old way that the Hebrews were also struggling with. His comparison helped me see another problem with such rituals and sensual stimuli: although MLJ likely preached this sermon in the 1950-60’s, protestants are still going back to Rome in our day; MLJ’s words might help such people see their error more clearly.]

The Strong Man Disarmed – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

5 Dec 2024 Michael A

Because of Adam’s sin, the whole world became subject to sin and the rule of Satan. The devil, also called the prince of the world, blinds people from seeing and believing in the truth of the gospel. In this sermon on Ephesians 6:10–13 titled “The Strong Man Disarmed,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones describes the way Christ has broken the grip that the evil one has on the world. For Jesus has bound the strong man and by the proclamation of the gospel, the works of Satan and all who follow him are destroyed.

Ephesians 6:10 – Introduction – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

24 Nov 2024 Michael A

The sermon of this post is an introduction to Ephesians 6:10 and the passage about the armor of God. This is foundational stuff for the Christian because it is about the daily warfare that automatically becomes a major part of the born-again Christian’s experience.

What is the enemy within? – Got Questions Ministries

11 Nov 2024 Michael A

The apostle Paul recognized the fact there is an internal battle within each one of us; every believer has an “enemy within” that we must fight. This lifelong battle between the flesh and the Spirit will rage until our death. Romans 7:21–23 addresses the enemy within: “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.” Paul understood that his fleshly nature would never conform to God’s will. No matter how much he might want to obey God in every way, he was fighting the “evil . . . right there with me,” the enemy within.

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