Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
WATCHMAN NEESamson 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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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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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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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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