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.
WATCHMAN NEEPrayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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