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!
WATCHMAN NEEThe Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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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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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.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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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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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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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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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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