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.
WATCHMAN NEEOutside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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 greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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