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.
WATCHMAN NEEPrayer 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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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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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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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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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