Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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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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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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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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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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