There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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 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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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