The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
WATCHMAN NEEIf 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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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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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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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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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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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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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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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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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