At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
WATCHMAN NEEWe must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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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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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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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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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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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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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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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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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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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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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