People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
WATCHMAN NEEA Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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.
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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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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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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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