The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
WATCHMAN NEEActually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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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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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with 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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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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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