As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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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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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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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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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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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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.
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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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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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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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