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.
WATCHMAN NEEOur 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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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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