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Awakenings and religious reforms » Revivals (select reading, isa chap 35) isa 35 » General references to
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we offer the sacrifices of our lips.
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break forth, and streams in the desert.
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto your testimonies.
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we offer the sacrifices of our lips.
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break forth, and streams in the desert.
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto your testimonies.
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Trial » What to try
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Turning » Turning to the lord
Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, may he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually.
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped and walked. read more.
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, being before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they tore their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them:
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, being before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they tore their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them: