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.
WATCHMAN NEEA born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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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 Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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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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Christians 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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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