The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
WATCHMAN NEEBy the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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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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