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.
WATCHMAN NEEPrayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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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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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of 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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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 Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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