Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
WATCHMAN NEEOften 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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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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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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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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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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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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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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