The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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 must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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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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