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.
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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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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