We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
WATCHMAN NEEWe think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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 we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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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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