Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
WATCHMAN NEEMany are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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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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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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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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Samson 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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