It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
WATCHMAN NEEThey 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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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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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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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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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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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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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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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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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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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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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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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as 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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