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.
WATCHMAN NEEGod 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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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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