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 NEEWe may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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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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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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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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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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