John Wesley's Rule for Christian Living:

Do all the good you can,
   by all the means you can,
   in all the ways you can,
   in all the places you can,
   at all the times you can,
   to all the people you can,
   as long as ever you can!

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Micah 6:8 ... He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Luke 6:31 ... And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

3 John 11 ... Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.❤

Unsearchable

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

[John Wesley]

1 John 5:7 ... For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Romans 11:33 ... O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Psalm 145:3 ... Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Job 26:14 ... Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?❤

Love and Humility

Without true humility all religion is nothing. All prayer without it is in vain. Our Lord Jesus CHRIST is that book, out of which this is best learnt; as who is indeed a most perfect mirror unto us of all virtues and graces.

 

 

Look on his life, and you shall find it made up of nothing but love and humility. Look on his doctrine, and you shall see it to be mere wisdom and truth; a doctrine consisting not in words, but in power; not in shadows, but in the substance of the things that we are taught of him.

 

[John Wesley]

 

 

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Luke 18:14 ...  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

 

 

Philippians 2:8 ... And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

 

 

Psalm 113:5-6 ... Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high,  Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

 

 

Proverbs 22:4 ... By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.❤

What is God's Will?

A woman once asked John Wesley what he would do if he knew that he would die at midnight the next day. “Why, Madam,” he replied, “just as I intend to spend it now. I would preach this evening at Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning, after that I would ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon, and meet the societies in the evening. I would then go to Martin’s house talk and pray with the family as usual, retire myself to my room at 10 o’clock, commend myself to my Heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory.”

So many people wonder what God’s will is for their lives. John Wesley seemed to be quite confident that He was already walking in it!

We all need to work on offering our bodies as Living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God and no longer conforming to the pattern of this world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds. THIS, before anything else, is God’s will for our lives! THEN, the Word says, we WILL be able to test and approve what His good pleasing and perfect will is!

Let’s offer our bodies, minds and hearts again to the Lord today and commit ourselves wholeheartedly to His perfect plan for our lives. There is so much work to be done!

[George Whitten]

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Romans 12:1-2 ...  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ... For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:  That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Hebrews 13:16 ... But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

1 John 2:17 ... And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.❤

Over The Plain

Love fasts when it can, and as much as it can. It leads to all the ordinances of God, and employs itself in all the outward works whereof it is capable. It flies, as it were, like Elijah over the plain, to find God upon his holy mountain.

[John Wesley]

Isaiah 2:3 ... And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 58:2 ... Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Song of Solomon 4:6 ... Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Psalm 119:140 ...  Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

1 John 2:5 ...  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.❤