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.
WATCHMAN NEEJust being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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