By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
WATCHMAN NEERevelation 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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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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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.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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