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.
WATCHMAN NEENot until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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