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.
WATCHMAN NEEOur prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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 you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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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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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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