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.
WATCHMAN NEERepentance 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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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 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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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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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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