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.
WATCHMAN NEEA person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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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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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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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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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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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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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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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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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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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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