Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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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 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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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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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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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.
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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