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.
WATCHMAN NEEChristians 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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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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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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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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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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