Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
WATCHMAN NEELet us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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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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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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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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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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