I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
WATCHMAN NEEAn affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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