Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
WATCHMAN NEELife 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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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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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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I 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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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