Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
WATCHMAN NEEThe 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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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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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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 greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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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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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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