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.
WATCHMAN NEEOh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
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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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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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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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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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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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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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