All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
WATCHMAN NEEHe 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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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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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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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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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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