The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
WATCHMAN NEEWhy do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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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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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 ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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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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