By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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