Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
WATCHMAN NEEChristians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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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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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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Often 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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