The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
WATCHMAN NEEWith fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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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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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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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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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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