With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
WATCHMAN NEEI need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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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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