To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
WATCHMAN NEEMan’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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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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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 does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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