Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
WATCHMAN NEEFood ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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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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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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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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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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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