If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
WATCHMAN NEEWe may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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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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I 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 life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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