I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
WATCHMAN NEELord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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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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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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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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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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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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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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