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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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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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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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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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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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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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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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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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