The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
WATCHMAN NEEOur old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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 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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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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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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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