DO NOT COMPROMISE – BILLY GRAHAM Out of his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you the mighty inner strengthening of his Holy Spirit. — Ephesians 3:16 (TLB) Horace Pitkin, the son of a wealthy merchant, was converted and went to China as a missionary. He wrote to his friends in …
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THE HOLY SPIRIT – BILLY GRAHAM Your body is the home of the Holy Spirit . . . — 1 Corinthians 6:19 (TLB) Who is the Holy Spirit? He is God, just as God the Father and God the Son are also God. We speak of them as the Trinity. You ask me to …
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YOU CAN PREACH! – BILLY GRAHAM And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world . . . — Matthew 24:14 (TLB) We are stewards of the Gospel. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was …
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SYMPTOMS OF GUILT – BILLY GRAHAM Cleanse me from this guilt. Let me be pure again. — Psalm 51:2 (TLB) Guilt is a prominent word among psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and ministers too. The dictionary calls guilt “the act or state of having done a wrong or committed an offense.” The symptoms of guilt …
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HOW TO HANDLE TEMPTATION – BILLY GRAHAM . . . who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able . . . — 1 Corinthians 10:13 It is Satan’s purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts. It should encourage you to know that the …
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SALVATION IS AN ACT OF GOD – BILLY GRAHAM There is salvation in no one else! Under all heaven there is no other name for men to call upon to save them. —Acts 4:12 (TLB) Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by …
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BE MEEK—BE HAPPY – Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth. — Matthew 5:5 In His characteristic way Jesus was saying something quite shocking and revolutionary to His listener with these words, “Happy are the meek.” He was saying something quite the opposite of our modern concept of the way to …
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BORN AGAIN – BILLY GRAHAM Clothe yourself with this new nature. — Ephesians 4:24 (TLB) In Texas they tell a story about a man who used to hitch his horse every morning in front of the saloon. One morning the saloonkeeper came out and found that the horse was hitched …
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THE MYSTERY OF HEAVEN – BILLY GRAHAM I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. — Psalm 23:6 What will heaven be like? Just as there is a mystery to hell, so there is a mystery to heaven. Yet I believe the Bible teaches that heaven is …
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THE GREATEST WORK OF CHRIST – BILLY GRAHAM For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. — Ephesians 6:12 Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in …
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