There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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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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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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Numerous 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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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We 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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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 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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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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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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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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