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.
WATCHMAN NEEIf Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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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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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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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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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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