The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
WATCHMAN NEEI have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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