It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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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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 Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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 ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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.
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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 consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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