To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
WATCHMAN NEEThe right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Our 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 ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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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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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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