Our Enemies Are On Every Side, So

Satan Cannot Deny But That Great Wonders Have Been Wrought By Prayer. As The Spirit Of Prayer Goes Up, So His Kingdom Goes Down. Satan's Strategems Against Prayer Are Three. First, If He Can, He Will Keep Thee From Prayer. If That Be Not Feasible, Secondly, He Will Strive To Interrupt Thee In Prayer. And, Thirdly, If That Plot Takes Not, He Will Labour To Hinder The Success Of Thy Prayer.

It Is No Policy To Let Thy Lusts Have Arms, Which Are Sure To Rise And Declare Against Thee When Thine Enemy Comes.

God Loves The Saints As The Purchase Of His Son's Blood. They Cost Him Dear, And That Which Is So Hardly Got Shall Not Be Easily Lost. He That Was Willing To Expend His Son's Blood To Gain Them, Will Not Deny His Power To Keep Them.

We Are Justified, Not By Giving Anything To God,--what We Do,--but By Receiving From God, What Christ Hath Done For Us.

The Possessions God Allows Us To Have Are Intended For Our Use, Not Our Enjoyment. Trying To Squeeze Something Out Of Them That Was Never In Them In The First Place Is A Futile Endeavor. A Cow's Udders, Gently Pressed, Will Yield Sweet Milk, Nourishing And Refreshing. Applying More And More Pressure Will Not Produce Greater Quantities Of Milk. We Lose The Good Of Material Things By Expecting Too Much From Them. Those Who Try Hardest To Please Themselves With Earthly Goods Find The Least Satisfaction In Them.