Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
WATCHMAN NEEFrequently 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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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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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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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 remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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