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.
WATCHMAN NEELord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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