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.
WATCHMAN NEENegligence 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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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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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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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 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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