Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
WATCHMAN NEEI must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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We 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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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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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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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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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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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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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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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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