God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
WATCHMAN NEELet us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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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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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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