Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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 devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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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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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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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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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