I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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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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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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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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