The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
WATCHMAN NEESeparation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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