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.
WATCHMAN NEEGod is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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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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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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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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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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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