Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
WATCHMAN NEENegligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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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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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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