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( Our Daily Bread) The best reward of prayer: the reward of communicating and communing with the God of the universe

( Hebrews 6:3/ The Message)  Commenting on the need for maturity: " There's much more. Let's get on with it "

( J B Phillips ) Commenting on  Hebrews 5:14 /need for maturity: " the man who has developed by experience his power to discriminate between what is good and what is bad for him

(Heb 5:8-9/The Living Bible)  And even though Jesus was God's Son, He had to learn from experience what it was like to obey, when obeying meant suffering. It was after He had proved Himself perfect in this experience that Jesus became the Giver of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him

( Adrian Rogers) I have found that when you don't apologize for the Bible, but instead preach the Bible, it goes through the devil's lies like a white-hot cannonball through a crate of eggs. There is power in the Word of God

( Rogers) God gives you His unlisted phone number and invites you to get in touch with Him anytime

( Warren Wiersbe) In His Gethsemane prayer, Christ was not praying to be spared from death, but to be saved out of death. He  was praying for resurrection from the dead, and God answered that prayer

( Wiersbe) It is impossible to stand still in the Christian life: we either go forward and claim God's blessings or we go backward and wander about aimlessly

( Bill Hybels)  Commenting on his conversion: " I felt a release and a liberation unlike anything I had ever felt before. Finally, my feet weren't building blisters on the treadmill  of good works. I was lifted off the tightrope of the fear of death and punishment, and instead cast upon the sure ground and security of an outrageous  love. Grace  had changed my life forever