We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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 Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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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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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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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