Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
WATCHMAN NEEA person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives 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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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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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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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