Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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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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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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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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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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.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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