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 NEEGod will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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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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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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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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