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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!

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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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Act Approach Bets Book Our Work
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Life Remove Render Spiritual Unspiritual Warfare
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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Christ Dwell Innermost Life Secret Spirit Take You
Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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Christian First God Live Principle Separation World
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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Complete Disgrace God Happiness Kingdom Life Live One Outpour Personal Utterly
Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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Lie Look Lord Our Ourselves Rest To
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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Bear Cross Desire Do Do Power Mean Power Qualify Refrain Rfrrain So
As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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Advance Child Discover God Important Lord Shall Spiritually Time Will
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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Acid An Inner Lost Prayer Strength
We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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Attention Before Lord Must Open Pay Rather Read Should Study
God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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All Fail God Has Me Need Once Supply
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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Baptism Expression Faith Inward Outward
It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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Arrangement Circumstance Discipline God Holy Important Recieve Spirit
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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Christ Christian exchange God Like Offer Substitute Think
I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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