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.
WATCHMAN NEETrue revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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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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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 Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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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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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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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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