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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.

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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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Christ Display God Liknemses Manifestation Seek
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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Been Come Course End Life More Nothing Tragic Wrong
Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Affair Ask Deliver External Fragmentary Him Let Many May Touch
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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Attention Before Lord Must Open Pay Rather Read Should Study
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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Body Lord Our Ourselves Pleasure Refrain Understand Use
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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Crush Immediately Nothing Odor Result Satisfy Savor Scent Something Sweetness
I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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Able Christ More Outside Strong Weak
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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Christ Dwell Innermost Life Secret Spirit Take You
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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Alon Cut Delilah Fall Hair History Man Regrait Samson Still Today
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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Attractive Change Different Formerly Mean Pleasant Repentance Thing Thought
Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Drunker Gain Life Lost Measure Not Purple Score
Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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Business Certain Delight Difference Miserable Once Reptancem Change Think
Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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Absolute Adopt Christianity Eliminate Folly God Natural Ought Please View Walk
Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Actually Can Christian God Heart Man Not Only Satigy
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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Anything Apart Can Do Everything Lord Me Nothing Shown So Ye
Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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Also Bread Difficulty Do God Mena Only Our To Way Word
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Life Remove Render Spiritual Unspiritual Warfare
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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Already Far Have Just Less More One Praise Prayer Revelation
The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Attitude God Have Own Right Will
They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Cross Everything God Greatest Himself Negative Not Out Universe Was Wipe
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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By Christian Drunker How Life Lost Measure Much Outpour Score Tis What
Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Atify Christian Desire Drink Eat Glorify God Know Numerous Personal
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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Everywhere Power Put Satan Simply Very World
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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After Itself Man Mind Set Walk Whatever
May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Always Consciousness May Not Our Own Possess We
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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Bear Cross Desire Do Do Power Mean Power Qualify Refrain Rfrrain So

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