Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
WATCHMAN NEEHow 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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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 is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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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 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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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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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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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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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 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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