The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
WATCHMAN NEENumerous 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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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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