Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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