People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
WATCHMAN NEEGod asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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