Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
WATCHMAN NEEI 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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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