To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
WATCHMAN NEEGod 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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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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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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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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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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Man’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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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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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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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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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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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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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