With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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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.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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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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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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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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