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.
WATCHMAN NEEI want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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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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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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