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.
WATCHMAN NEEGood is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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The 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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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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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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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Put 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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