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Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
–Matthew 4:10-11 (NIV)–

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Dr. Neil Anderson, The Beginner’s Guide to Spiritual Warfare (Regal, 2008).

Frank and Ida Mae Hammond, Pigs In the Parlor (Impact Christian Books, 1973).

John Wimber, Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).

¹⁴ GOD DOES SPEAK now one way, now another though no one perceives it. ¹⁵ IN A DREAM, IN A VISION of the night, when DEEP SLEEP falls on people as they slumber in their beds, ¹⁶ he may speak in their ears and TERRIFY THEM WITH WARNINGS, ¹⁷ TO TURN THEM FROM WRONGDOING and keep them from pride, ¹⁸ to PRESERVE THEM FROM THE PIT, their lives from perishing by the sword.
–Job 33:14-18 (NIV)–

¹⁴ GOD DOES SPEAK now one way, now another though no one perceives it. ¹⁵ IN A DREAM, IN A VISION of the night, when DEEP SLEEP falls on people as they slumber in their beds, ¹⁶ he may speak in their ears and TERRIFY THEM WITH WARNINGS, ¹⁷ TO TURN THEM FROM WRONGDOING and keep them from pride, ¹⁸ to PRESERVE THEM FROM THE PIT, their lives from perishing by the sword.
–Job 33:14-18 (NIV)–

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. 
Come and see the place where he lay.
–Matthew 28:6 (NIV)–

God has raised this Jesus to life, 
and we are all witnesses of it.
–Acts 2:32 (NIV)–

Were not our hearts burning within us 
while he talked with us on the road
and opened the Scriptures to us?
–Luke 24:32 (NIV)–

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In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I FELT MY HEART STRANGELY WARMED. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
–John Wesley–

Begin to tell the people
what you have felt in your own heart,
and beseech the Holy Spirit
to make your heart as hot as a furnace for zeal.
–Charles Spurgeon–

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Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).

Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love (Penguin, 1972).

Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN, 2012).

Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
–Ephesians 6:13 (NIV)–

The heart of man is deceitful and envious, a constant adversary of holiness; it is not enough to flee from outward temptation, for within lurks the flesh, plotting sin and rebellion against God. The soul must be armed with a supreme love of Christ, with faith and meditation, and with hatred of sin, that it may subdue the flesh, crush its corrupt desires, and maintain the throne of God within, lest the internal foe triumph.
–Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections—

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Dismantling the clockwork that makes me the cynic
Pallet, wheel, and click
The properties of my indifference
Reverse-engineering what makes it tick
Dissecting the fine-tuned mechanism
Rack and barrel, spring and pin
Its synchronous characteristics
To kill what makes it spin

Disassemble this machinery
Reprogram these eyes, undo this design

Labelled and filed, each part indexed
Broken to pieces, then thoroughly burned
Deconstruction of what I am
Buried to make sure he never returns
Taken apart, defused
Blueprints turned to ashes
Eradicate the last remains
Remnants of the insane

Disintegration
The destruction of me
Now imperative
To purge myself
Of this condition
Complete this dissolution
A necessity

Break
Break
Break
This deceitful machine

A lie, what once I was
Obsolete instrument
An outmoded contraption
A malfunctioning device
That callous self now extinguished
That malignant self now disused
That conceited invention
To nothing now reduced

–Meshuggah, “Clockworks”–