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 NEEWhy do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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