The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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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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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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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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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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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