Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
WATCHMAN NEETo keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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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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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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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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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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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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