Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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He 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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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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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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