By faith, the sanctified man is made an heir of God and joint-heir with Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17) of all things, and his faith makes his Heavenly Father and this heavenly inheritance so real to him, that the influence of these unseen things far surpasses the influence of the things he sees with his eyes, hears with his ears, and handles with his hands.
Sanctification
Priscilla Shirer
When God saved you, it was with the understanding that He’d be providing you “sanctification by the Spirit” all along the way (2 Thess. 2:13), from the inside out, His purity and holiness changing your heart until it comes through as purity and holiness in action. As you yield yourself to Him in prayer, inviting Him to do His work, it won’t just be the sweaty, exhausting chore of avoiding sin. It’ll be God Himself building up strength at your core, enabling you by His resurrection power to passionately pursue righteousness.
Hannah Whitall Smith
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over hearts, not over places; that His victories must be inward before they can be outward; that He seeks to control spirits rather than bodies; that no triumph could satisfy Him but a triumph that gains the heart; that in short, where God really reigns, the surrender must be the interior surrender of the convicted free men, and not merely the outward surrender of the conquered slave.
Max Lucado
April 22, 2020
As we fellowship with God, read his Word, obey his commands, and seek to reflect his character, something wonderful emerges. Our image transforms as God rubs away anything that is not of him so the inborn image of God can be seen in us!
John Owen
April 6, 2020
There can be no greater evidence of a renewed heart and mind than a change in the habit and stream of our thoughts.
Frederick Brotherton ( F. B. ) Meyer
May we not only be delivered from the outward act or word that grieves Thee, but may the very springs of our nature be purified!
Christine Caine
We are being conformed and transformed to the image of Jesus Christ – we don’t need more of us, we need less of us and more of Him.
Andrew Murray
The more we allow ourselves to personally experience sanctification by faith, the more we also experience healing by faith. These two doctrines walk together. The more the Spirit of God lives and acts in the soul of believers, the more miracles He will work in the body. By this, the world will recognize what redemption means.
D. A. Carson
Be patient; it is better to be a chastened saint than a carefree sinner.
C.S. Lewis
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not. It is not wearied by our standards of indifference, and therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins at whatever cost to us; at whatever cost to him.