It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
WATCHMAN NEEWe consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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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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