An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
WATCHMAN NEEIf 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 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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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