To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
WATCHMAN NEEVictory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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