The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
WATCHMAN NEEThe breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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We 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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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