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.
WATCHMAN NEEOften Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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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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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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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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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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.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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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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