God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
WATCHMAN NEEActually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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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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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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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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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