We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
WATCHMAN NEEPut 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.
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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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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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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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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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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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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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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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