Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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 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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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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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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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