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<p>"Blessed are the<strong> poor in spirit</strong>." Matthew 5:5<br>
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  <strong>Spiritual poverty</strong> is a miserable feeling of soul-<br>
  emptiness before God, an inward sinking sensation <br>
  that there is nothing in our hearts spiritually good, <br>
  nothing which can deliver us from the justly merited <br>
  wrath of God, or save us from the lowest hell. <br>
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  To be <strong>poor in spirit</strong>, then, is to have this wretched <br>
  emptiness of spirit, this nakedness and destitution <br>
  of soul before God.<br>
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  He who has never thus known what it is to groan <br>
  before the Lord with breaking's forth of heart as a <br>
  needy, naked wretch—he that has never felt his <br>
  miserable destitution and emptiness before the <br>
  eyes of a heart-searching God—has not yet <br>
  experienced what it is to be <strong>spiritually poor</strong>.