We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
WATCHMAN NEENumerous 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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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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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 breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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