A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
WATCHMAN NEEVictory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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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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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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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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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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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