The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
WATCHMAN NEENatural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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