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.
WATCHMAN NEEThe life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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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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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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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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