Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
WATCHMAN NEENowadays 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.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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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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