We are to copy no human being. There is no human being wise enough to be our criterion. We are to look to the man Christ Jesus, who is complete in the perfection of righteousness and holiness. He is the author and finisher of our faith. He is the pattern Man. His experience is the measure of the experience that we are to gain. His character is our model. Let us, then, take our minds off the perplexities and the difficulties of this life, and fix them on him, that by beholding we may be changed into his likeness. We may behold Christ to good purpose. We may safely look to him; for he is all-wise. As we look to him and think of him, he will be formed within, the hope of glory. – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 3}
Let us strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the hundred and forty-four thousand. And let us do all that we can to help others to gain heaven. We are to have an intense interest in Christ Jesus; for he is our Saviour. He came to this world to be tempted in all points as we are, to prove to the universe that in this world of sin human beings can live lives that God will approve. – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 4}
Let us not talk of the mistakes and defects of others. Let us speak the words that Christ has given us to speak. Let us seek for the blessings that Christ has placed within our reach, that we may be made capable of receiving more and still more of his grace, and that we may be filled with a living, active, growing faith,—a faith that believes the promise, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 9}

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Col 3:1-5 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Born in 1483, Martin Luther was a monk burdened by guilt and the impossible weight of earning God’s favor. But as he studied Scripture, light broke through the darkness. In Romans 1:17, he discovered that “the righteous shall live by faith.” Grace was not a wage to be earned—it was a gift to be received.

That truth set his heart ablaze.
In 1517, Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door in Wittenberg, challenging the corruption that had hidden the gospel beneath rituals and fear. His courage unleashed a movement that called the church back to its foundation—Scripture alone, Christ alone, grace alone, faith alone, to the glory of God alone.

Luther was not seeking fame, but faithfulness. He believed the power was never in the man, but in the Word of God. And that Word still reforms hearts today.

🔥 “The Word did everything,” he said, and it still does.

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*Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.*

*Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.*
–Psalms 55:17 (NKJV)