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.
WATCHMAN NEEPeople who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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The 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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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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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