Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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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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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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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 Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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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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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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A 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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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