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.
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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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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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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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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 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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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