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.
WATCHMAN NEEI want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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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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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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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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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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