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• God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.

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  Believe, Comfort And Joy, Giving

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.115, NavPress

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• The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way.

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  Perseverance, Character, Long

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

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  Action, Gods Will, Accord

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.72, NavPress

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• Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

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  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Religious

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.42, Tyndale House

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• In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel (Romans 10:17), so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. It is only in the Scriptures that we find an adequate view of God's relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. It is only from the Scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in adversity.

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  Heart, Adversity, Eye

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• If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

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  Heart, Needs, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.21, NavPress

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• When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

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  Dominion, Sin, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.21, NavPress

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• One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

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  God, Religious, Jesus

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• When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

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  Commitment, Order, Needs

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.88, Tyndale House

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

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  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

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  Character, Holiness, Conformity

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.75, Tyndale House

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

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  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

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  Work Out, Way, God's Plan

  Jerry Bridges (1990). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.

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  Fashion, Encouragement, Adversity

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• Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.

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  Country, Brother, Kings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.81, NavPress

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• We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

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  Temptation, Grace, Enabling

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• Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

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  Cutting, Two, Broken

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• I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

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  Adversity, Choices, Feelings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.52, NavPress

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• The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

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  Grace, Holiness, Pursuit

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.10, Tyndale House

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• Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

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  Feelings, Matter, Trust In God

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.52, NavPress

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• We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

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  Prayer, Would Be, Cupboards

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.212, NavPress

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• Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.

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  Christian, Attitude, Weather

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.99, NavPress

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• We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

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  Law, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.54, Tyndale House

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• Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

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  Guilt, May, Christ

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• Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

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  Character, Holiness, Conformity

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.52, NavPress

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