Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
WATCHMAN NEEI do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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Numerous 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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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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