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.
WATCHMAN NEEGod is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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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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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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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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