We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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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 keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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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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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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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