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.
WATCHMAN NEEWe 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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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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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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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