Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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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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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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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