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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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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Come Complete Consecration Peace Perfect With
Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Enable Enemy First Him Ideal Inwardly Outward Overcome Prayer
Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Always God Good Will
I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Concrete Missionary Myself Preacher
Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Begin Cross End History Our Resurrection
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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Break Each Other God Inner Man Not Only Outer Soul Spearte Spirit Want
The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Cross Everything God Greatest Himself Negative Not Out Universe Was Wipe
God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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Burden Conflict Fill Heartbreak Life Punctuate Spirit Suffer Trail Watch Way Weariness

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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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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