Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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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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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us 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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