We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
WATCHMAN NEEA Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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.
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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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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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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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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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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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