Martin Wickens
Speaking the Truth in Love
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4/9 – Prayer and Desire
Unless otherwise noted, all quotes are taken from EM Bounds’ book, The Necessity of Prayer. What is Desire? “Desire is not merely a wish; it is deep seated craving; an intense longing, for attainment.” “A sense of need creates, or should create, earnest desire.” How Do We Develop This Godly Desire? “We should pray for…
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3/9 – Prayer and Fervency
Unless otherwise noted, all quotes are from EM Bounds book, The Necessity of Prayer. The Necessity of Fervency “Prayer, without fervour, stakes nothing on the issue, because it has nothing to stake.” “Prayers must be red hot. It is the fervent prayer that is effectual and that availeth.” What does fervency in prayer reveal about…
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Be Better
One of the political campaigners has used the slogan, “Build Back Better”. It just hit me, though, that instead of Build Back Better, we should aim to BE BETTER. Too often we excuse our behavior because of what someone else did. We excuse our behavior because its not as bad as someone else’s. We excuse…
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2/9 – Prayer and Trust
Faith and trust are similar and yet very different. Faith believes based upon evidence, trust believes almost despite the evidence. Unless otherwise noted, all quotations are taken from E.M. Bounds’ book, The Necessity of Prayer. What is the difference between faith and trust? ” There is, when all is said and done, a sort of…
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1/9 – Prayer and Faith
Over the next 9 weeks I want to share a selection of quotes by E.M. Bounds from his book, The Necessity of Prayer. I’ll make a few comments along the way, but mostly I want to simply share these statements to encourage myself and others to pray. But without faith it is impossible to please…
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Enough
Do you ever feel like you’re not doing enough? Do you ever feel like YOU are not enough? I often feel bad for parents, moms especially who constantly receive the message that they need to be more than a parent, more than just a mom or more than just a dad. Society says that if…
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God Our Strength & Refuge
My grandparents instilled in me a love for the old war movies. One that I’ve returned to often is The Dambusters. It tells the amazing story of how an eccentric inventor, Barnes Wallis, developed a bomb for brave RAF pilots to use to destroy Nazi dams and cripple their heavy industry. The depiction of the…
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Sacrifice and Rest
Reading through the books of Leviticus and Numbers we can find ourselves getting lost in all the details of Judaism. Judaism, that body of belief which God gave to Israel to protect them as a nation, to prepare a path from Jesus would emerge, and to prove our inability to save ourselves. Wading through the…
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“Fighting and Praying”
This is a sermon by C.H. Spurgeon titled, “Fighting And Praying”. It is taken from Exodus 17: 8-9. It is rare that I would post an entire sermon like this, but I found myself posting so many extracts to social media I thought it best just to share the entire sermon. I hope it challenges,…
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For God So Loved
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16, The Bible When playing college football, in 2009, Tim Tebow reached the national championship. Leading up to the big night he knew he had an opportunity to point…