Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
WATCHMAN NEELord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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 right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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