Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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