We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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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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