Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
WATCHMAN NEEA Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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 Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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