Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
WATCHMAN NEEActually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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