To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
WATCHMAN NEENot 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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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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.
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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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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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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