The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
WATCHMAN NEEPrayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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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.
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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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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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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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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