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 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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to 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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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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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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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