The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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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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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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