Christians—In What Ways Must God’s Servants Be Clean?

The blog post discusses the importance of cleanliness as a multifaceted concept, encompassing physical hygiene, moral integrity, and spiritual purity for believers. It emphasizes that cleanliness goes beyond physical hygiene to include upholding ethical standards, sexual purity, adhering to sound doctrine, maintaining a robust prayer life, and cultivating healthy relationships. The ultimate aim is achieving holiness and fulfilling God's divine purpose.

Prayer, the Great Essential

PRAYER, in the preacher’s life, in the preacher’s study, in the preacher’s pulpit, must be a conspicuous and an all-impregnating force and an all-coloring ingredient.

CHRISTIANS: Lead a Life of Prayer

The one who would succeed in the Christian life must lead a life of prayer. Very much of the failure in Christian living today, and in Christian work, results from neglect of prayer. Very few Christians spend as much time in prayer as they ought.

THE SCRIPTURES AND PRAYER

A prayerless Christian is a contradiction in terms. Just as a still-born child is a dead one, so a professing believer who does not pray is devoid of spiritual life. Prayer is the breath of the new nature in the holy one, as the Word of God is its food.

PRAYER: What Tendencies Are to Be Avoided?

THERE are two extreme tendencies in the ministry. The one is to shut itself out from intercourse with the people. The monk, the hermit were illustrations of this; they shut themselves out from men to be more with God. The other tendency is to thoroughly popularize the ministry. He is no longer God’s man, but a man of affairs, of the people. He prays not, because his mission is to the people.

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