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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

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Differences, Knowing, Contentment

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I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

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Eye, Knowing, Hands

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.7, InterVarsity Press

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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

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Knowing, Relief, His Love

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

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Fall, Problem, Accord

"Knowing God". Book by James Packer, 1973.

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Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

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Calling, Glory, Power Of God

J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.

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Christian, Meditation, Healthy

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Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.

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Trust, Light, Giving

"Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.

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Sweet, Pain, Healing

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What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

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Jesus, Things In Life, Giving

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Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

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Sight, Realizing, Moments

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.88, InterVarsity Press

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The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

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Stronger, Body, Waste

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

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Determination, Discovery, Knowing

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life.

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Christian, Morning, Brother

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To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

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Christian, Sex, Kindness

J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

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Christian, Saint, World

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

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Simple, Religion, Utterance

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.298, InterVarsity Press

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The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

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Character, Giving, Ministry

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Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

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Honesty, Stress, Following Christ

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Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

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Kings, Heart, Past

J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

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Humble, Divine Wisdom, Mind

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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

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Doe, Eternity, Carrie

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.80, InterVarsity Press

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The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.

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Spirit, Study, Given

J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.112, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

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Hypocrite, Sheep, Christ

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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

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Husband, Love You, Wife

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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

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Rejoice, Behinds, Dealings

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.177, InterVarsity Press

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