Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
WATCHMAN NEEWith complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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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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