We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
WATCHMAN NEEAn affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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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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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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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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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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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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