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.
WATCHMAN NEEGod is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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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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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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