The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
WATCHMAN NEEVictory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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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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God 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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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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