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.
WATCHMAN NEEAs 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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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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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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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