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 NEEOutside 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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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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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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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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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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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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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 have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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