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 NEENot until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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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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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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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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