It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
WATCHMAN NEENegligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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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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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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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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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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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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