God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
WATCHMAN NEEI have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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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 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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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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