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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Deficiency Different Hundred Mater One Personal Thing
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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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Body Lord Our Ourselves Pleasure Refrain Understand Use
I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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Able Christ More Outside Strong Weak
Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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Acid An Inner Lost Prayer Strength
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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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Abnormal Christian Defeatm Should Existence Experience Norman Victory
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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Among Children Christian Common Enemy Entice Frequently God Harbor Inner Spirit Symptom Unforgive
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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Child God Holy Spirit Know Ought Confess Petition Pray Teach Weakness
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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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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Christ Dwell Innermost Life Secret Spirit Take You
We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Christ Christian exchange God Like Offer Substitute Think
Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Always God Good Will
We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Christ Conduct Consider Emotion Life Live Lord Out Outward Reality Realize Strong Us
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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Anything Apart Can Do Everything Lord Me Nothing Shown So Ye
God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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Break Each Other God Inner Man Not Only Outer Soul Spearte Spirit Want

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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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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