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.
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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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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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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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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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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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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