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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Christ Conduct Consider Emotion Life Live Lord Out Outward Reality Realize Strong Us
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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Break Each Other God Inner Man Not Only Outer Soul Spearte Spirit Want
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Begin Cross End History Our Resurrection
With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Come Complete Consecration Peace Perfect With
We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Always God Good Will
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.
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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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Always Answer Christ Every God Jesus Need One Son Sufficient
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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Accomplish Any Children Demonstrate Expression Form God More Other Prayer Work
Prayer 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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Acid An Inner Lost Prayer Strength
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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Advance Child Discover God Important Lord Shall Spiritually Time Will
The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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Anything Apart Can Do Everything Lord Me Nothing Shown So Ye
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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Alabaster Anointing Break Error Fill House Lord Sweetest
Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Concrete Missionary Myself Preacher
Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Break Heart Lord Order Satisfy Try Willing
Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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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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