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.
WATCHMAN NEEThe cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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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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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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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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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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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