Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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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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