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.
WATCHMAN NEENatural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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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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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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