Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
WATCHMAN NEEPrayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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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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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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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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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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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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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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