God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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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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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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