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.
WATCHMAN NEEVictory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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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 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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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