Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
WATCHMAN NEEPrayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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.
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Nowadays 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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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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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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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