The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
WATCHMAN NEEMan’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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I 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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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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