The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
WATCHMAN NEEThe 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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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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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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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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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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