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Quotes from The Power of Right Believing

I finished reading The Power of Right Believing   by Joseph Prince several weeks ago.  I thought I would share some quotes today: The enemy knows that if he can control your thought life, he can manipulate your emotions and feelings. . . The devil's strategy hasn't changed-he is still using lies, accusations, guilt and condemnation to ensnare believers today and to make them doubt God's perfect love, forgiveness, and superabounding grace. Legalistic teachings always place the demand on man. Grace teachings always demonstrate how the supply comes from God. The gospel is simple. It's all about Jesus. It's not about you. Christ is our righteousness. Christ is our obedience. Christ is our sanctification. Christ is our justification. Glory and boast in Christ and Christ alone. The enemy will try to make it all about you. His grace and power work best when we stop striving and depend wholeheartedly on Him. Right believing always leads to right livi...

Frustrated by sin?

Have any of you ever had a sin in your life that keeps reappearing?  Have you tried and tried to resist it?  We know we have been forgiven because of Christ's death on the cross.  We know there is a battle between being led by the Spirit or by the flesh.  But how can we experience victory over our reoccurring sins? I was praying about a particular sin in my life this week that continues to be a struggle for me.  God led me to a particular Scripture while I was praying.  It is Romans 7:14-25.  I will include it here for your convenience. 14  We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18  For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in...